Half of Virginia voters gave good marks to Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) in a poll from the Wason Center at Christopher Newport University, with 50 percent approving and 40 percent disapproving.
, Virginia voters favored protecting abortion rights, with 67 percent saying abortion should be legal in most or all cases compared with 27 percent opposing.Roe v. Wade,But the poll also found that 51 percent of voters would support an abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy that included exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother.
Republican candidates in Virginia’s most competitive congressional races have been coy about answering clearly when asked if they would support a 15-week ban on abortion, intent on sticking to a message about abortion policy being a state issue, even though a federal 15-week ban on abortion has been introduced in Congress.
Vega said she couldn’t give a position on the federal 15-week ban because she wasn’t familiar with the widely circulated legislation. In Richmond, Youngkin has proposed that the General Assembly consider a 15-week ban when it convenes in January. Republicans control the House of Delegates and can get the legislation through that chamber, but Democrats hold a narrow 21-19 edge in the state Senate and have vowed to resist.the state is going in the right direction while 40 percent say it’s headed in the wrong direction.
The poll was conducted over the phone Sept. 18-Oct. 7 among 740 Virginia registered voters with 61 percent of the sample interviewed on cellphones; it has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
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