A year after the presidential election, Prime Minister Joe Biden and the Democrats fear the influence of Republican Donald Trump more than they have for a long time.
The gubernatorial election in Virginia is polarizing.
Munich / Richmond - It was almost exactly a year ago that Joe Biden won the US presidential election for the Democratic Party.
Against incumbent Donald Trump by the Republicans.
But this is anything but sunk into political oblivion.
This is becoming clear right now, at the beginning of November.
The focus is on the gubernatorial election in the state of Virginia with its approximately 8.6 million inhabitants.
The importance of the polls on the East Coast is immense: the whole of the USA is literally looking at this election.
Terry McAuliffe, Democratic candidate, was already considered a sure winner.
The 64-year-old was governor of the state from 2014 to 2018.
Yes, Glenn Youngkin (54), the Republican candidate, has caught up.
And even caught up with McAuliffe in the polls.
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It's more than the McAuliffee versus Youngkin duel.
The battle for the governor's post is the first major showdown between President Joe Biden (Democrat) and predecessor Donald Trump (Republican) since the presidential election he lost.
The questions are: How big is the influence of the real estate mogul today?
How much can he mobilize his supporters in order to possibly help decide an election for the Republicans through his work?
Everything is at stake in this choice.
Ex-US President Donald Trump
Biden and Trump - both had campaigned for the respective candidate of their party in advance.
Last but not least, you have an eye on the congressional elections in 2022, the so-called midterms.
Traditionally it is about how much the respective president can bring his politics through parliament.
Or not.
So the election in Virginia is an enormously important test of sentiment in the United States of how satisfied people are with the policies of the (no longer quite so) new head of government.
Or not.
This election is about lifting up all Virginians and protecting our democracy.
Virginia, let's choose a better way.
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- Terry McAuliffe (@TerryMcAuliffe) October 19, 2021
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A comparison: As the
time
writes, Biden had won the state of Virginia (including its electoral votes) in the 2020 presidential election by ten percentage points.
But: Recently Youngkin made up a considerable deficit on McAuliffe.
When performing in Hanover County, he said confidently.
“There is an impression that there will be a change.
And by the way, there is agreement that there has to be a change! ”Although he had distanced himself a little from former President Trump in order to attract moderate Democrats to his side.
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The Democrats resisted, sending First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, President Biden and his predecessor Barack Obama into the election campaign.
A defeat of McAuliffe would be a serious setback for the party, which after four years of Trump wants to change so much beyond the United States.
Biden immediately called Youngkin "a supporter of Donald Trump" at an election rally.
Obama warned of a "return to the chaos that has caused so much damage".
Trump did not let that sit on him, said on Twitter that Youngkin had his "full and unreserved support".
He called on his supporters to "flood" polling stations.
Everything is at stake in this election ”.
Virginia gubernatorial election: McAuliffe versus Youngkin, Biden versus Trump
McAuliffe, on the other hand, tweeted with a view to the 75-year-old entrepreneur: "This is our chance to send a message to the nation: Here in Virginia we are not going back." According to
Zeit
, he tried hard to get Youngkin as a supporter of a possible renewed Trump 2024 candidacy to represent.
There is hardly anything that makes the Democrats tremble more domestically about Biden than that the headstrong Republican could run for election again.
This is illustrated by the impressions from Virginia.
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