Republican Glenn Youngkin says Dem Terry McAuliffe is 'losing it' after ...

Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin mocked his Democratic rival on Wednesday for storming out of an interview.

Businessman Youngkin, who is backed by Donald Trump, said former Governor Terry McAuliffe is 'losing it' after the Democrat powerhouse abruptly ended an interview with a local news channel and told the reporter that he should have asked 'better questions.' 

Youngkin said McAuliffe walked out because of a sense of 'entitlement' stemming from having been governor of Virginia from 2014 until 2018.

'This is what Terry McAuliffe does, I guess,' Youngkin told Fox & Friends in Falls Church, Virginia. 'I think he might feel entitled because, he thinks, he was governor - but he didn't do a good job - people shouldn't ask him hard questions.'

'These aren't that hard of questions. How are you going to fix our schools' and what are you going to do to make our communities safe? I mean, these are questions I get every day.'

He compared it to spending his Tuesday at a campaign rally with voters in FairfaxCounty, Virginia. 

'We had nearly 1,000 people last night, we were talking about it, I know what we are going to do to make our community safe,' Youngkin said.

'And here is Terry McAuliffe, who won't even answer questions from a local reporter. I mean, he yells at sheriffs, he barks at people all the time. I think he's losing it because he knows this race is slipping away from him.'

He was referring to a September incident in which McAuliffe got into a tense exchange with a sheriff who confronted him about an endorsement from a group that the sheriff claimed want to defund the police. In video of the event McAuliffe tells the sheriff, who has appeared in a Youngkin campaign ad, that he didn't 'care' whether he believed him or not.

At his rally on Tuesday Youngkin attacked Loudon education officials and called for an investigation into a reported sexual assault at one of the county's schools, while also outlining a plan for keeping students safe. 

Youngkin accused Loudon County officials of 'gross negligence' on Wednesday and said what happened there 'could happen across Virginia.' 

Issues surrounding the deepening divide between the Justice Department and parents opposed to mask wearing and Critical Race Theory in schools has polarized the two candidates even further and focused the race, in its final weeks, on the question of who exactly is the final decision maker on public school education.

McAuliffe, who held a commanding lead over Youngkin earlier this year, has recently seen his poll numbers slipping as the Biden administration cracks down on violent outbreaks at schoolboard meetings and outside education officials' homes. 

'Terry McAuliffe is on the wrong side of this issue,' Youngkin said on Wednesday. 'He knows it, he wants government to control our children, and parents aren't having any part of it.'

ABC affiliate WJLA-TV published in-depth interviews with McAuliffe and Youngkin on Tuesday, but noted that McAuliffe cut the 20 minute interview short just halfway through after being grilled on topics including vaccine mandates and the teaching of critical race theory. 

In the interview recorded last week, a McAuliffe staffer is heard interjecting 10 minutes in to the scheduled 20-minute interview, prompting the candidate to cut short the questioning from reporter Nick Minock.

'Alright, we are over. That's it. That's it. Hey I gave you extra time. C'mon man,' McAuliffe tells the reporter. 'You should have asked better questions early on. You should have asked questions your viewers care about.'

The station published the full video and transcript of the two interviews on its website, but was compelled to explain to viewers why the Youngkin interview was twice as long. 

'We do want to point out that the Terry McAuliffe interview is shorter than our interview with Glenn Youngkin, that was not by our

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