Barack Obama on Saturday accused Republicans of threatening democracy ahead of a particularly close local election, seen as a national test of Joe Biden's popularity.
The former president had traveled to Richmond, in the conservative south of the state, to support Democrat Terry McAuliffe (64) running for governor of Virginia and who is neck and neck with pro Republican -Trump Glenn Youngkin (54) as the November 2 poll looms.
In front of a few hundred enthusiastic young activists, gathered at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, he said that Glenn Yougkin "wanted to have the voting machines used in the last ballot checked. (...) And we are supposed to believe that he will defend our democracy? ”
Barack Obama also believes that the Republican candidate would cut teaching positions, reduce access to abortion and support the claims of Donald Trump who claims that the presidential election was stolen from him.
GALVANIZING AFRICAN-AMERICAN ELECTORS
Joe Biden won Virginia 10 points clear in 2020 and the Republicans haven't won an election in that state since 2009, but Terry McAuliffe's lead in the polls has melted over the weeks, and she now reaches the margin of error.
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Barack Obama wants to galvanize African-American voters, a key electorate in this southern state, especially in the Richmond region where one of the most important symbols of the country's slavery past, the statue of Confederate General Robert Lee, has been debunked only last month.
“I'm here in Virginia because I think Virginia will ultimately make the right choice,” he continued. “I think here in Virginia, you're going to show the rest of the country, and the world, that we won't indulge our worst instincts. We will not go back to a past that has hurt so much, we will go forward with people like Terry to guide us ”.
A McAuliffe victory would give momentum to the massive investment program that the Democratic Party's left wing seeks to push through Congress. Failure could prompt more caution from the moderate wing of the party, which is still reluctant to approve some $ 3 trillion in spending.
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