First lady Jill Biden heads out on the campaign trail Friday in support of the Democratic nominees in the only two states in the nation to hold gubernatorial elections this November, including Terry McAuliffe in Virginia.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe at a campaign event in the suburbs outside of Richmond, the state’s capital city.
The latest surveys in the state also indicate that Republican voters are more motivated than their Democratic counterparts. And McAuliffe's invited top surrogates to Virginia as he puts on a full-court press to get Democrats to cast ballots in the current early voting period or to go to the polls on Election Day.
While Jill Biden, a longtime community college professor, has traveled across the country in support of her education initiatives, reopening schools amid the coronavirus pandemic, and urging Americans to get the COVID vaccine, this is the first lady’s first foray on the campaign trail since last year.But Jill Biden’s no stranger to campaign politics.
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