Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* With a week remaining before Virginia’s gubernatorial race, the latest Suffolk University poll found former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger leading Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, 52% to 43%. The latest Washington Post-Schar School poll, meanwhile, found the Democratic nominee with a 12-point advantage, 54% to 42%.
* With a week remaining before New Jersey’s gubernatorial race, the latest Rutgers University-Eagleton poll found Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill ahead of Republican Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli, 50% to 45%.
* On a related note, Donald Trump said Sherrill has an “unusual name” and that he’d campaign with Ciattarelli after he returns from a trip to Asia, though as The Associated Press reported, “no concrete plans have been announced.”
* Under White House pressure, Indiana’s Republican governor, Mike Braun, has called for a special legislative session to gerrymander the state’s district map. Although there’s been weeks of resistance among GOP lawmakers in the state, the president expects Indiana’s Republican majority to deliver one more U.S. House seat for the party.
* Speaking of mid-decade redistricting, the latest CBS News/YouGov poll found Proposition 50 on track to be approved by a landslide margin in California, which in turn would clear the way for a new map intended to deliver five additional U.S. House seats to Democrats.
* Looking ahead to next year’s midterm elections, the latest Quinnipiac University poll found Democrats leading Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, 50% to 41%.
* In the wake of several recent controversies surrounding his Senate bid in Maine, Graham Platner is shaking up his Democratic campaign on multiple fronts, including new non-disclosure agreements for staffers.
* On a related note, Daira Smith-Rodriguez ended her Democratic Senate candidacy in Maine late last week and threw her support behind incumbent Gov. Janet Mills.
