More bad news for Biden as poll shows him TIED with Trump in state he won by 10 points

A poll released Wednesday showed that former President Donald Trump has made inroads in Virginia, a state he lost to President Joe Biden by more than 10 points four years ago. 

A fresh Roanoke College Poll showed Biden and Trump tied earning 42 percent of the vote each when the choices were just the Democrat and the Republican presumptive nominees. 

When third-party candidates were factored in, Biden maintained a slight lead in the state - garnering 40 percent to Trump's 38 percent. 

Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. polled at 8 percent in Virginia, while Green Party candidate Jill Stein polled at 3 percent and independent Cornel West received just 1 percent, in that scenario. 

Thanks, in part, to the liberal suburbs of Washington, D.C., Virginia started voting Democratic in presidential elections starting with President Barack Obama's win in 2008. 

President Joe Biden (left) beat former President Donald Trump (right) in Virginia by just over 10 points in 2020. The latest polling from the state shows the two candidates ties in a two-person race 

Biden and Trump are tied at 42 percent of the vote in Virginia, polling from Roanoke College found, when third-party hopefuls were not named on the ballot 

Biden's 10-point win over Trump in 2020 was the biggest win since this trend started, but in Virginia's 2021 off-year gubernatorial election, Republican Glenn Youngkin had a shock over Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who had previously served as the state's governor. 

Current job approval for Biden in the state was 35 percent, while Youngkin sat at 52 percent, the survey found.  

Wednesday's poll was the first Roanoke College Poll that showed Trump and Biden tied. 

The results are within the survey's plus or minus 4.2 percent margin of error. 

Previous polls conducted in February and November showed that the race was close and within the surveys' margin of error. 

Trump's first term in office is viewed by the Virginia electorate as being better for the country, with 44 percent of repsondents saying it was mostly good, compared to 33 percent who rated it mostly bad. 

When looking at Biden's first term, 47 percent said it was mostly bad, while just 25 percent said it was mostly good.  

When third-party candidates were named, Biden squeaked out a win against Trump, however it was within the poll's plus or minus 4.2 percent margin of error 

Republicans were far more enthusiastic about Trump's years in office than Democrats were about Biden's - which could help explain the narrowness of the current race.

A whopping 87 percent of GOP voters said Trump's first term was mostly good. 

Among Democrats, just 50 percent referred to Biden's term as mostly good. 

Trump said during his massive Wildwood, New Jersey rally earlier that Virginia was among the blue-leaning states he would make a play for in the 2024 race. 

He also said he hoped to flip New Jersey and Minnesota.