Here’s the latest news today out of Virginia:
Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) holds a 4-point lead over Republican Glenn Youngkin in the commonwealth's off-year gubernatorial race, within the margin of error of a new JMS Analytics poll.
Forty-six percent of respondents polled said they would vote for McAuliffe if the election was held today, while 42 percent said the same about Youngkin. Twelve percent of voters polled said they were undecided. The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.
The latest polling comes after a WPA Intelligence poll released Friday showed McAuliffe leading Youngkin by just 2 points, 48 percent to 46 percent. That poll had a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.
Click here for the full results.
By the way, here’s a bad look for the Youngkin campaign:
Glenn Youngkin, the GOP nominee for Virginia governor, held a campaign event Thursday evening at a brewery at the center of a local controversy over its unintentional clearing earlier this spring of land believed to contain a historic African American and Native American cemetery.
Youngkin held a campaign kick-off event at The Farm Brewery at Broad Run in Haymarket for Christopher Stone, who is challenging Del. Danica Roem (D) in the race for 13th District House of Delegates seat this November.
The event was initially to be held at Cookies & Cream Ice Cream Shop in Haymarket, owned by Supervisor Pete Candland, R-Gainesville, but was moved due to thunderstorms.
The Scott Cemetery is estimated to contain between 75 and 100 gravesites. The county and the brewery’s owners are currently working to resolve the zoning violation. By law, property owners are required to conduct archeological investigations of historic cemeteries to determine their boundaries and delineate gravesites before properties are cleared for development.
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