Obama’s visit could help Terry McAuliffe in a variety of ways, all of them similar to patterns in other states.
Terry McAuliffe is trying to follow the Gavin Newsom playbook for rousing lethargic Democratic voters as theJust as Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, fought off a recall effort, McAuliffe is seeking to beat back a motivated Republican grassroots that is hungry for a victory in a state that was won decisively by Joe Biden in 2020.
“Democrats are sated with victory. They’ve had so many victories in a row that they falsely assumed they would win this time automatically. But there’s no such thing in politics,” Larry Sabato, founder and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, told Yahoo News. So this is why former President Barack Obama is coming to Virginia to campaign for McAuliffe on Saturday, a few days after Vice President Kamala Harris, a week after Democratic icon Stacey Abrams and one day before Abrams and musician Dave Matthews headline an event in Charlottesville.
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