More Virginians approve of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin's job performance than disapprove in a new Virginia Commonwealth University poll.
conducted by the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Fifty-eight percent support Youngkin’s proposal to suspend the state gas tax for three months, an initiative that Democrats blocked in the state Senate. Opinions were evenly split on eliminating the 1.5 percent state grocery tax. The General Assembly agreed to do away with that tax this year, while resisting Youngkin’s call to scrap an additional 1 percent levy imposed by cities and counties.“The responses in the poll suggest what I have always stated: The people are always ahead of the leaders,” former governor L. Douglas Wilder, a Democrat, said in a written statement issued with the poll results.
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