The momentum has shifted so dramatically against Terry McAuliffe in Tuesday’s Virginia governor’s race that numerous establishment media outlets — including CNN and Politico — have called out the Democrat for closing out his campaign with “a lie.”

“Guess how Glenn Youngkin is finishing his campaign?” Terry McAuliffe asked the attendees of his final campaign rally at a Fairfax brewery Monday night. “Glenn Youngkin is doing an event with Donald Trump here in Virginia, where he brought the hatred, the divisiveness that Donald Trump brought to this country. We’re going to put an end to Donald Trump’s future plans right here in Virginia.”

It’s true that President Donald Trump held an 11-minute “tele-rally” by phone on Monday evening, where the 45th president called Youngkin a “fantastic guy.” But Youngkin announced last Saturday that “I’m not going to be engaged in the tele-town hall.”

Surprisingly, a number of legacy media outlets corrected McAuliffe, who has spent weeks trying to regain lost momentum by tying the outsider Republican to Trump.