Polling from Fox News shows an upswing for Glenn Youngkin in the final days before the Nov. 2 election for Virginia governor.
Whereas a survey released by the network two weeks ago showed Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe with a 5 percentage point advantage, poll results released on Thursday show his GOP rival ahead by 8 points.
Youngkin’s 53% lead to McAuliffe’s 45% among likely voters is outside the poll’s margin of error. Fox News attributes the shift to “GOP enthusiasm” in a race largely focused on education.
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The latest poll was conducted Oct. 24-27 under the joint direction of Beacon Research and Shaw & Company. Fox News said interviews were conducted with 1,212 Virginia registered voters randomly selected from a statewide voter file, who spoke with live interviewers on landlines and cellphones, and there is a subsample of 1,015 classified as likely voters.
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The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points for the registered voter sample and 3 points for likely voters.
McAuliffe is a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee who first served as governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018. Governors in the state are barred from serving two consecutive terms.
