10:49 p.m., October 23, 2021
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Barack Obama campaigned in Virginia on Saturday. He came to support Democrat Terry McAuliffe, 64, candidate for governor of Virginia, which he already held from 2014 to 2018.
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In shirt sleeves and looking as malicious as he was combative, he was greeted Saturday afternoon at the University of Richmond as the Messiah. Ten days before the election of the governor of Virginia, the Democratic candidate, Terry McAuliffe, 64, an early Clintonian who was already elected governor from 2014 to 2018, is now in a bad position. Barack Obama won this state in 2008, a first since 1964 for a Democratic candidate for the White House.
Since then, Virginia, a southern state on the outskirts of Washington, has remained democratic in all elections, national or local. But now Terry McAuliffe is stuck in the polls’ margin of error against his Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin. Ten years his junior, this businessman is supported by Donald Trump. And if the other day he distanced himself from a meeting in his favor where we honored the starry banners brandished by the attackers of the Capitol on January 6, the Republican camp remains loyal to him. With an enthusiasm that contrasts with the weariness observed in the Democratic ranks.
Disenchantment of Biden voters
Barack Obama used this argument yesterday to discredit Youngkin. Can Obama Save Virginia? He knows how disastrous a Republican victory there would be, just nine months after ex-Vice President Joe Biden took office in the White House. But Biden’s popularity has weakened in Virginia, with barely 51% satisfied. There is something of disenchantment in the air. Reforms that are slow to materialize because of the split between the elected centrist and progressive Democrats in Congress and a somewhat erratic and muddled campaign of a Terry McAuliffe too sure of himself at the start have led many voters to wonder about a possible abstention.
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been on the pitch before to try to move the lines, to no avail. So Obama? “Black voters feel their vote is taken for granted by the Democratic Party,” said an African-American community leader interviewed by The Associated Press. Obviously, nothing is less certain. And only the first black president of the United States would be able to re-mobilize them, not only to keep Virginia on the left but also in anticipation of the midterm elections in November 2022, which are already shaping up to be far more complicated than expected. the White House.
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