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The Fall Commonwealth Poll, from the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University, was conducted Aug. 26-Sept. 6. Poll directors say they plan to ...
Two new polls are showing Vice President Harris leading former President Trump in Virginia, a major shift for Democrats in the state from when President Biden was at the top of the ticket.
Virginia won’t just settle the argument about whether polls or special elections are a better indicator of the political environment headed into 2024 — it will help explain why.
Elections in Virginia are authorized under Article I of the Virginia State Constitution, sections 5–6, and Article V which establishes elections for the state-level officers, cabinet, and legislature. Article VII section 4 establishes the election of county-level officers. Elections are regulated under state statute 24.2-102.
Biden won Henrico County, Loudoun County, Prince William County, and Fairfax County with 63.7%, 61.5%, 63.6%, and 69.9%, respectively; all four were former suburban bastions of the Republican Party in Virginia, the first outside Richmond and the others in Northern Virginia. All four had voted Republican in every election from 1968 through 2000.
The Fox poll has him at 25% with Black voters, up from the 10% the 2020 Virginia exit poll pegged him at. The state also has a significant population of Latinos and Asian Americans.
Local Republican Party leaders control the application process to become a delegate, decide who can participate (voter registration in Virginia does not include a space to indicate party affiliation), and select the convention voting site. [87] In the preceding Virginia Republican gubernatorial convention, 12,000 participated. [76]
Along with performing well in swing states, Harris holds a 16-point lead among likely voters between the ages of 18 to 29 in Virginia and Pennsylvania against Trump, compared to Biden’s 12-point ...