A new Roanoke poll finds Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin with a 57 percent approval rating and 35 percent disapproval rating. The same survey finds Joe Biden with a 38 percent approval rating and 56 percent disapproval rating. When Virginia residents are asked whether they feel favorably or unfavorably towards their leaders, Youngkin scores 52 percent favorable, 35 percent unfavorable. Meanwhile, President Biden scores 40 percent favorable, 55 percent unfavorable.
Unsurprisingly, the right track/wrong direction numbers are similar. Just 27 percent of Virginia respondents feel like the country is on the right track, but 55 percent think Virginia is on the right track. Sixty-nine percent of respondents said the country was headed in the wrong direction, but just 39 percent said they feel the same way about their state.
This comes about a month after the Mason-Dixon survey found that “45 percent approve of Biden’s performance, while 52 percent disapprove and 3 percent are unsure. At the same time, 56 percent indicate that they approve of the performance of Governor Glenn Youngkin, while only 31 percent disapprove and 13 percent are not sure.”
And this is in a state that Biden won by ten points in 2020.
A lot of mainstream media coverage of Youngkin would have you believe that he’s unpopular and beleaguered, and that Biden is enjoying a resurgence since the midterm elections. Apparently, Virginians haven’t gotten the memo.