Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) and Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D), the two leading declared candidates for governor next year, are tied at 39 percent support each, according to a new statewide survey from the University of Mary Washington’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies.
The remaining respondents in the survey of 1,000 adult Virginians said they were undecided, did not plan to vote or would back another candidate. The poll was conducted by Research America Inc. Sept. 3-9.
Attorney General Jason Miyares (R), another possible candidate for his party’s gubernatorial nomination, would be equally competitive in a general election, according to the poll. In a possible match-up between Spanberger and Miyares, 40 percent of survey respondents backed Spanberger and 39 percent backed Miyares, well within the survey’s margin of error. Read more.