Nobody Likes Abigail.
Breaking News: After 80 days in office Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s approval rating has cratered and is the lowest of any Virginia governor in modern times.
Even worse than that of governor blackface, Ralph Northam.
Color me unsurprised. This is what happens when a duplicitous candidate lies repeatedly during a campaign.
According to a poll by the Washington Post and the George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government, Spanberger’s approval rating has dropped by double digits in less than three months in office. Her approval rating stands at 47% and her disapproval is 46%. Seven percent having no opinion.
"The approval mark for Spanberger is 13 percentage points lower than the average for Virginia governors in Post polling since the 1990s. Her near-even split between approval and disapproval is a worse net approval rating than the early-term scores of her predecessors in previous Post polls. It is also slightly weaker than ratings of her immediate predecessor, Glenn Youngkin (R), in a Post-Schar School poll last fall, showing he ended his term with 50 percent approval and 46 percent disapproval. Unlike Spanberger, Youngkin had come into office with a very narrow victory.”
University of Virginia professor, political pundit and director of the Center for Politics Larry Sabato sees the situation as alarming for the Democrat who bested her Republican opponent by 15 percentage points.
"A drop of that margin is stunning, and it should be greatly disturbing to the governor and the governor's staff if it's repeated in other surveys," UVa Political scientist Sabato told 7News.
Not surprising when you consider Spanberger ran as a centrist but once in office swerved hard left. She immediately declared Virginia a sanctuary state for illegal aliens and ordered law enforcement to cease cooperation with ICE. She also reversed Youngkins’ decision to pull out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, guaranteeing Virginia utility bills would rise sharply. Even though Spanberger once declared herself opposed to gerrymandering and said during the campaign that she had no plans to redistrict Virginia, she is now cheerleading for the Vote Yes crowd that wants to return to gerrymandered districts.
All to hand the House of Representatives over to Hakeem Jeffries.
On top of that, she is poised to sign bills raising more than 50 fees and taxes on ordinary Virginians. Awaiting her signature are extreme gun bills that will ultimately be ruled unconstitutional.
Her quick about-face on issue after issue has outraged many Virginia voters who believe they were hoodwinked by a Marxist cosplaying as a moderate. Her far-left turn may endear Spanberger to radicals in Northern Virginia but it’s angering normal Virginians in other parts of the commonwealth.
Any wonder Virginia Democrats feel the need to pour $50 million into their return-to-gerrymandering campaign?
With national ambitions, Spanberger finds herself in a quandary. Unless she moderates her radical inclinations her approval rating will continue to plummet. But if she rebuffs Virginia’s Democrat kingmakers Louise Lucas and Don Scott, they will torpedo her ambitions.
It’s said that first impressions are lasting ones. If that’s the case, this ex-CIA’s agent’s career in politics should end when she leaves the governor’s mansion.
