Abigail Spanberger’s campaign struggles as Obama endorses her amid a texting scandal.
Abigail Spanberger has officially pressed the panic button. How can I tell? With less than three weeks until Election Day, her gubernatorial campaign is pulling a classic move of a campaign that realizes it is in trouble: an 11th-hour high-profile endorsement. And this one comes from Barack Obama. Spanberger’s team is desperately trying to distract voters from the Jay Jones texting scandal that now threatens to sink Democrats across the statewide ticket.
Anyone paying attention knows that the Jay Jones texting scandal has become an absolute disaster for Virginia Democrats. Jones, who’s running for attorney general, saw his comfortable lead evaporate practically overnight once voters learned about his offensive text messages. Fresh Trafalgar polling shows Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares now leading Jones by six points, a stunning reversal from just days earlier when Jones held the advantage. That’s not just a bad polling day; that’s a political earthquake.
But here’s where it gets really interesting. The damage isn’t confined to Jones‘ attorney general race.
