Spanberger Is Cratering Fast: New Numbers Show Virginia Voters Sour on Democrat Governor

New poll numbers released Monday show Virginia voters might be having one heckuva a case of buyer's remorse after electing Democrat Abigail Spanberger as their new governor last November. Not even three months into her administration, the Washington Post-Schar School poll found Spanberger's approval rate amongst voters sits at just 47 percent, with 46 percent disapproving of her performance thus far.

Those numbers really set her apart from her predecessors ... and not in a good way. Her +1 net approval is dwarfed by the numbers garnered by the Republicans and Democrats who came before her, indicating that voters may finally be realizing that Abigail Spanberger is no moderate, despite running as one.

WaPo's analysis of the numbers is pretty stark (emphasis mine):

The approval mark for Spanberger is 13 percentage points lower than the average for Virginia governors in Post polling since the 1990s. Her near-even split between approval and disapproval is a worse net approval rating than the early-term scores of her predecessors in previous Post polls.

Here's where previous Virginia governors stood at the same point in their terms:

Data from Washington Post-Schar

Average ratings of Virginia governors (net)

✅🟦Spanberger (+1)
✅🟥Youngkin (+15)
✅🟦Northam (+11)
✅🟦McAuliffe (+22)
✅🟥McDonnell (+20)
✅🟦Kaine (+31)
✅🟦Warner (+58)
✅🟥Gilmore (+33)
✅🟥Allen (+40) https://t.co/UfQ1TaXpgR pic.twitter.com/XVqGD5tJWv
— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) April 6, 2026

You'd expect a brand-new governor to enjoy a bit of a honeymoon period with voters – especially after being elected by a whopping 15 percentage points – but these numbers show that Spanberger is quickly wearing out her welcome. And that's no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention, as she and her fellow Virginia Democrats have been tripping over themselves these past few months in a rush to cram a slew of far-left policies down the throats of Virginians, from proposing onerous taxes on things like mattress recycling to approving a ban on "assault firearms."

GOP's Blowout Win Has Virginia Democrats Sweating Their Gerrymander Gamble

Then there's the gerrymandering scheme currently being pushed by Spanberger and her fellow Democrats. They've set an April 21 referendum asking voters to give state lawmakers (aka, Democrats) the authority to approve a new congressional map that would likely strip Republicans of four out of the five House seats they currently hold. Candidate Spanberger was against gerrymandering, but Governor Spanberger is now actively endorsing it.

Former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (and possible future candidate for governor?), who has been one of the leading voices opposing the gerrymander, had some thoughts on why Spanberger is cratering in the polls:

When four months before your election you promise voters you won’t gerrymander Virginia then your first act as governor was to show you lied & enable the most extreme gerrymandering, not surprised. Poll: Va. voters deeply divided over Gov. Spanberger. https://t.co/ySSwe1OGmg
— Jason Miyares (@JasonMiyaresVA) April 6, 2026

And on her very first day in office, Spanberger revoked a Youngkin-era agreement with the federal government that empowered state law enforcement agencies to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to remove illegals from the commonwealth. This, of course, was meant to stymie the Trump administration and its efforts to deport illegals, starting with the most violent ones, but it's turned out to have deadly consequences for Virginians.

As RedState has been reporting, several citizens of the commonwealth have been murdered in recent weeks at the hands of illegals, something Spanberger has refused to confront in any meaningful way. Steve Descano, the commonwealth's attorney for liberal Fairfax County, has a particularly egregious track record, often releasing illegals with long arrest records back into the community to commit even worse crimes – and the governor is silent.

Abigail Spanberger has earned every bit of the disapproval she's getting from Virginians, who are watching her embrace gerrymandering, indulging the left’s worst instincts, and staying conspicuously silent as public safety concerns mount. She won election on the mirage of being a moderate, but the reality of a weak and evasive governor may be what ultimately defines her.

Editor’s Note: The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda.

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