The race is now a real-life, genuine, no-one-knows-what’s-gonna-happen toss-up in a state that’s only had one GOP governor in the last two decades
Photo: Ryan M. Kelly/AFP via Getty Images Virginians will soon get yet another reminder that Tuesday’s toss-up gubernatorial election has a lot more riding on it than usual: a round of robocalls from Barack Obama, recorded on Monday, that urge them to vote for Terry McAuliffe, Democrats familiar with the last-minute push told Intelligencer.
Obama is still Democrats’ most popular figure — and arguably the best bet for rallying base Democratic voters who are lukewarm on the Biden administration nearly a year into the post-Trump era. National polling shows the president’s approval rating sinking to the low-40s with the pandemic lingering and his legislative agenda languishing in D.C.
The uncertainty has some leading Democrats considering how they would spin a loss — some who’ve been engaged with the race have floated frustration that Biden is in Europe, not Virginia, on election eve, but these complaints have mostly been half-hearted given Biden’s months’ worth of engagement in the race , Harris’s appearances, and the incongruity of this argument alongside concerns about Biden’s sinking popularity.
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