Posted on 08/20/2024 10:46:56 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Polling out of Virginia shows Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump within the margin of error against Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.
Before the Democrats executed their coup, Trump had jumped to a small lead over His Fraudulency Joe Biden in Virginia. With Biden out of the race, it was assumed (even by me) that Virginia would suddenly be out of Trump’s reach. It’s not, and the pollster, Roanoke, is not a right-leaning poll. In 2020, in the final poll of that presidential campaign, Roanoke had Biden up by 11. In the end, we were told Biden won Virginia by a full 9.4 points.
A bare majority (51%) thinks Trump is a threat to democracy. Slightly fewer (47%) see the Democratic party process of replacing Biden with Harris as such a threat. Slightly more likely voters (56%) see Trump as strong enough to deal with adversaries of the United States, such as Vladimir Putin, while less than half (49%) say the same about Harris.
Just under one-third of respondents (29%) think criticisms of Harris are based more on her race and gender, while more think they are based on either policy differences (35%) or pure politics (35%). More than half (58%) think that criticisms of Trump are due to the large number of people who dislike him.
Regarding choices for vice president, likely voters are less than thrilled, as 44% are either dissatisfied or angry with the choice of Tim Walz (30% dissatisfied; 14% angry), and J.D. Vance fares even worse (32% dissatisfied; 18% angry).
On the question of favorability, both Harris and Trump are underwater. Trump is at 40/57 percent favorable/unfavorable. Harris is at 43/53 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Trump was already ahead there until Biden dropped out.
So Dem push polls work.
That was the biggest concern about Harris replacing Biden: voter enthusiasm. Or at least those DEM supporters who make the most noise. And now the MSM, instead of propping up an old, white male, gets to run cover for a younger, black female.
Our founding fathers must be so proud of blue Virginia - NOT!
“Winning VA would be sweet.”
It would be.
The key (IMHO) is for Trump to perform a bit better than usual in NoVa (like Youngkin did when he ran for governor) and also do well in the Richmond suburbs.
Bad journalism. The article doesn’t say what the percentages are. I had to go to another website to see Harris leads Trump 47% to 44%. The journalist gives all kinds of other stats except the one we most want to know!
Yes it looks like VA opening eyes and noticing what is causing the pain the democrats have caused for the last 3.5 years.
It is, indeed. If Youngkin and Sears can campaign with Trump in VA, then even if he doesn’t take the state, it will divert Dim resources away from border states.
Because of Glenn Youngkin’s popularity, Trump is close to matching Harris in Virginia. However I think overcoming the 1 0 point margin Biden had in 2020 is too much to win Virginia in 2024. I agree that changing from Biden to Harris did keep Virginia with the Democrat nominee. However Harris campaign will still have to spend money in Virginia.
Unfortunately I don’t remember any other blue state with a popular Republican governor that Trump can flip in 2024. I think the main stream media will be happy to not talk about Glenn Youngkin this year.
With the changes that the Republican VA Gov did to elections through executive order...VA might not be as blue as everyone thinks.
Yeah...and Andrew Jackson would be just tickled pink with the current state of the party he created.
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