MySQL issue with XAMPP

Question

I am getting this error on my windows vscode terminal after adjusting the database settings on my

settings.py

to

Xampp

settings in Django:

File "C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\ExPro\venexp\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\mysql\base.py", line 17, in <module>
    raise ImproperlyConfigured(
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module.
Did you install mysqlclient? 

I get the error immediately I tried to run server which is supposed to run smoothly and prime me to migrate unapplied migrations.. but instead I keep getting the above error no matter what I do.

The settings I implemented on my settings.py before running server is below:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'blog',
        'USER': 'root',
        'PASSWORD': '',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'PORT': '3306',
    }
}