Former President Donald Trump is trying to play for a state that President Joe Biden won by 10 points in 2024. All eyes will be on Virginia on November 5th.
In 2023, political commentators said Voters are looking to Virginia as a bellwether for the 2024 election. A year after Biden won the state, Republicans swept all three statewide executive races in 2021 and narrowly won the House of Representatives, but Democrats lost control of the state Senate. maintained the faction.
Republicans then formally took back Virginia’s House of Delegates, solidifying their majority with a 52-48 vote.
A Republican governor, a Republican lieutenant governor, a Republican attorney general, and a Republican House of Representatives. January 15th is coming soon! https://t.co/4zEIOwWqfl
— Will Dibagno (@DCLongIslander) December 3, 2021
The state’s Democratic Party was intent on blocking Republican Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and the state’s Republican Party from passing an anti-abortion bill. Sabato’s Crystal Ball Editor-in-Chief Kyle Kondik said it would show voters have more confidence in Democrats on this issue. (Harris’ defenders are crushing her only winning narrative)
“If Republicans have a good night, you’re going to hear that message from Republicans in other parts of the country,” Kondik said, according to Spectrum News. “If not, I think it would further strengthen the idea that Democrats have an advantage on the abortion issue.”
.@KamalaHarris I said this 4 days ago. #Virginia It will largely determine what happens in 2022, 2024 and beyond. ”
🔴Republican @GlennYoukin won the Virginia gubernatorial election #VirginiaElection pic.twitter.com/VJ8xemrYb4
— VOZ (@Voz_US) November 3, 2021
This is how the political pendulum has swung swing back In 2023, Democrats regained a majority in the House of Representatives and a majority in the state Senate. Inciting their fear of abortion was the key to their victory.
The Virginia Democratic Party’s message on this issue is similar to Vice President Kamala Harris’ message heading into 2024. While President Trump is trying to campaign on the economy, inflation and illegal immigration, Harris wants this to be a referendum on abortion. Her results in Virginia could predict how voters in battleground states rank these issues.
Harris touts her “entitlement” to support unlimited abortion on demand as a fundamental right. https://t.co/juSwjIuwFE
— Joseph Boot (@DrJoeBoot) October 24, 2024
Virginia is one of six states (Florida, Georgia, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia). Voting has ended 7pm ET. These states are expected to have their election results known the earliest, other than Indiana and Kentucky. Georgia is a sensitive battleground state, with a deadline of three days after Election Day to count the roughly 21,000 overseas votes expected to be cast. (ROOKE: Epstein’s world goes all out for Kamala Harris)
As of this writing, Harris holds a 6.2 point lead in Virginia. According to Calculated based on average of 538 votes. Again, Biden won this state by 10 points in 2020. Despite the unfavorable polls, the Trump campaign believes Biden can win and is leveraging Youngkin’s 2021 strategy in hopes of getting him over the line. Jeff Ryer, a spokesman for Trump’s Virginia campaign, told the Daily Caller that Yonkin will attend several of Trump’s rallies as part of the campaign’s get-out-the-vote efforts.trump force 47) in Virginia.
.@HungCao_VA Classifying Virginia by county: @ClayTravis and @BuckSexton: “If we can move Northern Virginia enough, we’ve already won this race.”https://t.co/6MOjEcu1QN pic.twitter.com/OPaBQkvNpI
— Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Shaw (@clayandbuck) October 23, 2024
“As the campaign progresses further and we participate in early voting rallies and get-to-vote events, the governor will be focused on not only advocating for us, but bringing all of those things to bear. Sho” [get-out-the-vote] We work together to volunteer in different areas of the state,” Reyer said.
governor @GlennYoukin Republicans heading to polling places to vote early:
“We’ve been pushing early voting very hard since 2021, and I won, and we’ve seen Republicans become very comfortable and enthusiastic about early voting. ” pic.twitter.com/gQYCip48cn
— Team Youngkin – Spirit of Virginia (@TeamYoungkin) October 23, 2024
Trump praised RNC co-chair Lara Trump in Thursday’s X Post. announcement She plans to join Youngkin at Saturday’s Virginia rally. He called the early voting results “amazing” for Republicans and hinted he might join Lara Trump and Youngkin. (Luke: Brian Stelter exposes the ignorance problem of Democratic white liberals in less than 10 words)
“Lara Trump, an incredibly smart and talented co-chair of the Republican National Committee who did a great job this week on the ‘Breakfast Club’ program, will be attending a rally in Virginia this Saturday with Glenn…・I plan to participate with Governor Youngkin and encourage everyone to: Vote early,” President Trump posted. “Glenn gave Virginians great confidence that their votes were safe and that only all legal votes would be counted. In fact, early voting in Virginia was a huge deal for Republicans. Stay tuned, as Lara is probably not the only Trump we’ll see in the Commonwealth by Election Day!
Trump is on the offensive in Virginia.
To do so, the state party chairman said: @DailyCaller It said it had recruited thousands of volunteers to support Youngkin’s get-out-the-vote efforts in the 2021 election. https://t.co/OfObSTTrrrL https://t.co/rbBM85Lg8X pic.twitter.com/M4I4Hk7lcw
— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) October 25, 2024
early voting in virginia data shows Nearly 51% of Democrats say they have returned their ballot or voted in person. Republicans are not far behind, with 42% saying the same thing. The Democratic Party is currently In Virginia, he led Republicans by 113,000 votes in early voting. while around 1 million more The state has more registered Democrats than Republicans, and there are more than 1 million registered independent voters. It’s the independent voters. Republicans hope to support it.
1,073,964 veterans who voted early or absentee as of October 22, 2024
Democratic Party 52%/NP 6.4%/Representatives 41.6%
18-29 7.6%/ 30-39 6.7%/ 40-49 9.2%/ 50-64 27%/ 65+ 49%
Asian 3.4%/European 68.7%/Hispanic 3.7%/Afam 12.6%VA is a member state of the modeled political party – according to L2 data. https://t.co/nCqzDX9m7J pic.twitter.com/213WxWQHZL
— L2 data (@L2political) October 22, 2024
If Trump can win Virginia on election night by focusing on the economy, inflation and illegal immigration, it could spell disaster for Harris in must-win states like Georgia and North Carolina. It will show that simply performing an abortion is not enough. All eyes will be on Virginia on November 5th.