The president will appear at a rally Tuesday night with McAuliffe at Virginia Highlands Park in Arlington, Virginia, just one week before Election Day.
McAuliffe continues struggling in the race as Biden's approval ratings have cratered in recent weeks.
“We are facing a lot of headwinds from Washington,” McAuliffe said during a video conference with Democrats earlier this month. “As you know, the president is unpopular today, unfortunately, here in Virginia, so we've got to plow through.”
Biden's appearance ties the president to McAuliffe's political future even as Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin hangs on to a promising last minute surge in the polls.
Virginia Republican Glenn Youngkin holds less than a one-point lead over former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) in the state’s gubernatorial race, according to a Trafalgar Group poll. https://t.co/9KbnYUsC85
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 17, 2021
The McAuliffe team is pulling all the stops to help Democrats limp across the finish line in Virginia, calling in former President Barack Obama, failed Democrat candidate for Georgia governor Stacy Abrams, and Vice President Kamala Harris to join him on the campaign trail.
Youngkin is closing out his campaign promising to fix public schools, giving parents more of a say on issues like critical race theory and holding school administrators accountable for issues of sexual assault.
“The time for closed-door conversation and silencing parents is over. We must fix this now,” Youngkin said at a rally last week in Fairfax, Virginia.
McAuliffe has tried to dismiss Youngkin's campaign promises on education as “silencing the voices of Black authors” and relying on “Trumpian dog whistles” to get more support.
Folks, let's take a step back.
Glenn is spending his final days of the campaign focused on banning award-winning books from our schools & silencing the voices of Black authors.
I know we can read between the lines and see these Trumpian dog whistles for what they truly are.
— Terry McAuliffe (@TerryMcAuliffe) October 25, 2021
Former President Barack Obama also tried to dismiss parental concerns about sexual assault and critical race theory as “fake outrage,” and “trumped-up culture wars” during a weekend rally for McAullife.
Obama complained that Youngkin was focusing on outrage politics instead of focusing on “serious problems that actually affect serious people.”
“That's a shame,” he said. “That's not what this election is about. That's not what you need Virginia.”
