Youngkin runs ads claiming McAuliffe's voting rights efforts boosted crime

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "My action, I didn't think it had anything to do with gun rights.
50% : McAuliffe supports universal background checks and has released a detailed plan to "treat gun violence as the public health crisis it is and deploy evidence-based solutions to save lives."
48% : As Leonard speaks, the video flashes a photo of McAuliffe superimposed over a Washington Post headline from May 20, 2016, that reads "Virginia felon voting rights mean simpler path to gun ownership."
32% : Though Youngkin attempted to hide his conservative views on guns and abortion since winning his party's nomination, he told a convention of the College Republican Federation of Virginia in February that he would "not sign a piece of legislation that has anything to do with imposing limitations on our Second Amendment" and that he would try to undo gun control laws passed by the Democratic-led Legislature in 2020.

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