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Kevin Hulbert puts pro-Youngkin signs up as people gather to protest different issues during a Loudoun County School Board meeting in Ashburn, Va., October 26, 2021.(Leah Millis/Reuters)

While most pollsters find the Virginia gubernatorial race to be tied (or Democrat Terry McAuliffe slightly ahead), a new Fox News poll shows Republican Glenn Youngkin jumping out to an eight-point lead:

McAuliffe receives 45 percent to Youngkins 53 percent in a new Fox News survey of Virginia likely voters. Youngkins eight-point advantage is outside the polls margin of sampling error.

Thats a big shift from two weeks ago, when McAuliffe was ahead by five, 51-46 percent.

While the Fox poll could be an outlier (or a leading indicator), even the polls showing a tied race are good news for Youngkin. McAuliffe, as a former governor who served from 2014 to 2018, should effectively be viewed as an incumbent, and theres a good chance that undecided voters will break in favor of the lesser-known challenger at the end of the race.

Bidens national job approval rating is almost exactly where Obamas was in 2013 when McAuliffe won with 47.8 percent of the vote. The Republican candidate Ken Cuccinelli lost to McAuliffe in 2013 by 2.3 points, while a libertarian candidate siphoned off 6.5 percent of the vote statewide. In 2021, there isnt a libertarian candidate running in Virginia.

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