Former President Trump might need to change tactics. All because of what he’s being informed about.
And Donald Trump was just tipped off about a wild new path to victory.
Kamala Harris must win three states if she wants to make her life much easier in winning this November. Those three states are Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. She can still win if Donald Trump takes Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and North Carolina as he’s very poised to do. But there’s a new problem brewing for Kamala Harris and company.
There’s a state with thirteen electoral votes that Democrats are banking on, but early signals say there are rough roads ahead of them. That state is none other than Virginia, a state once reliably red that has since become a new destination for the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party has spent untold billions of dollars on flipping Virginia blue, and they’ve largely been successful. They haven’t been totally successful, though.
A new report out of the central Virginia region indicates that early voting for more reliably red counties is up even from 2020. Meanwhile, the counties in the northern region that are more reliably blue are not showing the same early voting enthusiasm thus far in the cycle.
“In the three years that I’ve been registrar, these first two days is the highest turnout numbers that I’ve seen for any early voting,” said a Richmond, Virginia area election registrar. The registrar noted that there was huge enthusiasm to vote early on day one of early voting. “There were lines outside the building,” he said. “In fact, when I got to work on first day of early voting, I couldn’t find a place to park. That’s how many people was here the first thing in the morning.”
Final VA Early Voting Figures We Have
Buchanan, Lee, Wise and Bath Counties (Very Strong Trump) All +200% on 2020
Matthews & Poqueson (Strong Trump) – +150%
York (+94%) and Stafford (+71%) – Both Bellweathers
Henrico (+159%) and Fredericksburg (+135%) – both strong Harris— Election2024 Updates (@MadAboutSkin01) September 20, 2024
In the surrounding area, counties that are extremely deep red and likely to be swept by Donald Trump are also showing high early voting turnout. In Henrico County, the early voting is up around 50% for the first two days compared to 2020.
In Henrico, during the first two days of voting, there were 4,400 ballots cast. In 2020, that number was less than 3,000. The enthusiasm in that region, which are Trump strongholds, is higher than at any point in 2020 or 2016. That’s a good sign for the Trump campaign.
Local officials in central Virginia are saying that the early voting numbers are going to be much stronger this year compared to 2020. “Here in the city, we have the most action-packed ballot in the entire state,” said one official. “That’s because we have the president and the local races. What we’ve seen is it takes voters an average of three minutes to cast their ballot once they receive their ballot.”
What Flipping Virginia Would Mean To Donald Trump & Kamala Harris
If Donald Trump was able to flip Virginia red, that would create a new path to victory for the Trump campaign that the Kamala Harris team is not prepared for right now based on the reporting from the internal Harris campaign communications. Harris and the Democrats are very much relying on Virginia giving Harris thirteen electoral votes.
Donald Trump could literally give up Nevada, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin if he were to win Virginia, and he would still have enough electoral votes to reach the 270 threshold to win. That’s how game-changing the state of Virginia could be. Some polls are showing Kamala Harris is hanging on to a slim lead in the historic state.
🚨JUST DROPPED: A general election poll of the state of VIRGINIA by Quantus polling shows Kamala Harris clinging to a 3 point lead.
🔵 Harris 49% (+3)
🔴 Trump 46%629 RV – AUG 22nd.
— Pro America Politics (@Pro__Trading) August 23, 2024
In 2021, the Republican Party shocked the nation when Glenn Youngkin beat out his Democrat opponent to win the gubernatorial race in Virginia that year. Democrat Terry McAuliffe was expected to win considering Virginia had just voted for Joe Biden by a fairly significant margin. That wasn’t the case, and Glenn Youngkin pulled off a big upset.
The Republican support is still there, it’ll just be a matter of whether or not Donald Trump’s campaign can get his turnout in Virginia to a level that could make him more competitive. The early voting data is showing it’s possible, but it’s yet to be seen.
A major reason why Glenn Youngkin won was because of the explosive Fairfax County scandal in which a school board had a father arrested because he voiced his concerns about the school board trying to coverup the assault of his child at the hands of another “transgender” student. This scandal activated parents all over the country to reject the extremism of the radical Left on the issue of transgenderism and public school indoctrination.
Whether that issue can still have a significant impact three years later in this huge election will be critical for whether Donald Trump can flip Virginia red. The state is likely in Harris’s favor, but you can’t assume that and Democrats should be worried about that.
Stay tuned to the DC Daily Journal.
