All eyes on Virginia as ballot-box test of Biden’s poor polling numbers

President Biden’s agenda faces its first real ballot-box test in Virginia today where it’s “urgent” with voters “flabbergasted” it’s so close, among other alarming messages Democrats are pumping out.

“We are rapidly running out of time,” VoteVets warned Monday in an email blast adding, don’t “give Republicans the momentum going into the midterm elections.”

But that’s exactly what’s on the table nationwide.

Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin are in a too-close-to-call race for governor of Virginia. It’s also the first referendum on Biden’s presidency. The polls show McAuliffe should be revving up the get-out-the-vote machine.

Youngkin also has former President Donald Trump in his corner, where the 45th president held a virtual rally on the eve of the election.

Youngkin told Fox News he has not “been involved” in the rally, but he’s not running from it either.

Biden’s approval rating, meanwhile, is stuck at an anemic 42% in the latest Rasmussen poll.

An NPR/PBS/Marist poll also out Monday showed Biden at 44% approval rating — in a slipped trend in recent weeks. But the poll shows only 15% of those surveyed “strongly approve” of the job Biden is doing in the president’s lowest score of his tenure.

And, in a possible bad sign for McAuliffe, Democrats are performing the worst in the Northeast, the poll shows.

Virginia voted for Biden — by 10 points — in the last election so if McAuliffe can’t hold on the midterms could prove pivotal for Democrats. The state “is still very susceptible to shifts in the national environment,” reports FiveThirtyEight.

That prognosticating site plants Biden’s approval rating at 43%. ” It’s underwater in Virginia,” FiveThirtyEight adds. It will be a late night for many. And, everyone is watching the police reform ballot question in Minneapolis to see where that goes.

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