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First lady Jill Biden heads out on the campaign trail on Friday in support of the Democratic nominees in the only two states in the nation to hold gubernatorial elections this November.
The first lady teams up Friday afternoon with New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy at an early voting rally at Middlesex College in Edison. Later in the day she’ll join former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe at a campaign event in the suburbs outside of Richmond, the state’s capital city.
While Murphy enjoys a double-digit lead over Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli in the reliably blue Garden State, McAuliffe is facing a much stiffer challenge against Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin in the commonwealth, a one-time premier battleground state that’s trended toward the Democrats the past decade but remains competitive.
WHAT A BRAND NEW FOX NEWS POLL SHOWS IN THE VIRGINIA GUBERNATORIAL SHOWDOWN
McAuliffe, who’s running for his old job, holds a 51%-46% advantage over Youngkin among likely Virginia voters in a Fox News poll conducted Sunday through Wednesday and released Thursday. And an average of all of the latest surveys in the race indicate a razor-thin, lower-single-digit edge for McAuliffe in a state where the GOP hasn’t won a statewide election in a dozen years.
The latest surveys in the state also indicate that Republican voters are more motivated than their Democratic counterparts. And McAuliffe’s invited top surrogates to Virginia as he puts on a full-court press to get Democrats to cast ballots in the current early voting period or to go to the polls on Election Day.
Enter the first lady.
“She brings an experienced voice on issues that resonate with a lot of voters,” former longtime Democratic National Committee member from New Hampshire Kathy Sullivan told Fox News. “She’s a very good surrogate with respect to generating the votes of suburban women. She speaks to their values, she speaks to their family issues, education issues, that are all very important to suburban…
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