Obama Campaigns in Virginia for Key Local Election

Some of the most important changes often start in state legislatures. That’s why I’m proud to support these candidates for the Virginia state legislature. I hope you’ll join me and the @DLCC in giving them your vote. https://t.co/jt3brA4F3B

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) October 23, 2021

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McAuliffe, a former Democratic Party chairman, is neck-and-neck with pro-Trump Republican Glenn Youngkin, 54, ahead of the Nov. 2 poll, and his side fears a disaffection among Democratic voters.

Visite de Joe Biden

Before Barack Obama, who is due to deliver an afternoon address at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, in the conservative south of the state, First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and one of the stars rising Democratic Party Stacey Abrams traveled to Virginia to campaign for the candidate. The American president himself is expected there next week.

Joe Biden won Virginia 10 points ahead in 2020, and Republicans haven’t won an election in that state since 2009. But the Democratic nominee’s lead has narrowed over the weeks, and his lead in the polls is now reduced to the margin of error.

A McAuliffe victory would give momentum to the massive investment program that the Democratic Party’s left wing seeks to push through Congress. Failure could prompt more caution from the moderate wing of the party, which is still reluctant to approve some $ 3 trillion in spending.

The former president hopes to galvanize African-American voters, a key electorate in this southern state, especially in the Richmond area, where one of the most important symbols of the country’s slave past, the statue of Confederate General Robert Lee, was only debunked last month.

“I saw Terry firmly defend the values ​​to which we are all attached: the protection of the right to vote for every citizen, the fight against climate change, and the defense of the right to abortion,” Obama noted in a spot. televised before his arrival.

Donald Trump en fond

Terry McAuliffe presented the ballot as a referendum against Donald Trump. “This is the most important poll of 2021,” he said in an election leaflet sent to voters on Saturday. “If Democrats vote in as large numbers as in 2020, we will win. But if not, we’ll lose – and there we can say goodbye to all of Virginia’s progress and hello to the resurgence of Trumpism in our country. ”

Glenn Youngkin, for his part, has focused on schools, campaigning against the mandatory mask hated by Donald Trump voters, but he has carefully avoided supporting the former president’s claims that the election was stolen from him.

Donald Trump did not visit Virginia, but he virtually joined on October 13 a pro-Youngkin campaign rally attended by his former adviser Steve Bannon.

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