{"id":939083,"date":"2021-10-29T20:14:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=939083"},"modified":"2021-10-29T20:14:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:14:31","slug":"joe-bidens-approval-underwater-in-virginia-as-governors-race-closes-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-bidens-approval-underwater-in-virginia-as-governors-race-closes-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden&#039;s Approval Underwater in Virginia as Governor&#039;s Race Closes In"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-bidens-approval-underwater-in-virginia-as-governors-race-closes-in%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=939083&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/oct-26-2021-joe-biden-campaigns-virginia-terry-mcauliffe-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Biden\u2019s approval ratings are underwater in Virginia as the governor\u2019s race between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin tightens in the final days, a Suffolk University\/<em>USA Today<\/em> survey released this week found.<\/p>\n<p>While 47.8 percent of those surveyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suffolk.edu\/-\/media\/suffolk\/documents\/academics\/research-at-suffolk\/suprc\/polls\/other-states\/2021\/10_26_2021_marginals.pdf?la=en&amp;hash=C18DD5B48B481336D2DC949F917376F13E0F8BE2\">said<\/a> they voted for Joe Biden in the presidential election over former President Trump (40.6 percent), voters overwhelmingly disapprove of Biden\u2019s job performance.&nbsp;A majority, 52.4 percent, disapprove, compared to 41.6 percent who approve:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.9058823529412\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VIRGINIA<br \/>Biden Job Approval:<br \/>Approve 42%<br \/>Disapprove 52%<\/p>\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suffolk_U?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Suffolk_U<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USATODAY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@USATODAY<\/a>, 500 LV, 10\/21-24<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lqcxFy3Dtc\">https:\/\/t.co\/lqcxFy3Dtc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Politics_Polls\/status\/1453745589519257606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The survey,&nbsp;taken October 21-24, 2021, among 500 likely governor\u2019s race voters,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>found both McAuliffe and Youngkin with the same 43.8 percent favorability rating. However, McAuliffe\u2019s unfavorability rating is higher than Youngkin\u2019s \u2014 42.8 percent to 36.8 percent.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear how Biden\u2019s sinking approval rating will affect fellow Democrat and former Gov. McAuliffe in the governor\u2019s race, but poll after poll shows the race tightening up in the final stretch.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s RealClearPolitics average showed Youngkin up 0.9 percent over his Democrat challenger following a Fox News poll which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/28\/poll-republican-glenn-youngkin-ahead-of-democrat-terry-mcauliffe-by-8-points-in-virginia-governors-race\/\">showed<\/a> Youngkin up by eight percentage points. Other surveys <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2021\/governor\/va\/virginia_governor_youngkin_vs_mcauliffe-7373.html\">included<\/a> in the average either showed McAuliffe up by one or the two candidates tied.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">Similarly, a&nbsp;Virginia Commonwealth University survey also showed Biden\u2019s approval in the negatives in the Old Dominion State:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.6274509803922\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VIRGINIA<br \/>Biden Job Approval:<br \/>Approve 41%<br \/>Disapprove 54%<\/p>\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VCU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VCU<\/a>, 722 LV, 10\/9-21<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kaKN5z6KQp\">https:\/\/t.co\/kaKN5z6KQp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Politics_Polls\/status\/1453744680399740933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u2019s approval ratings are underwater in Virginia as the governor\u2019s race between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin tightens in the final days, a Suffolk University\/USA Today survey &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}