 But anxious Democrats point to the president's dipping poll numbers. Biden won Virginia by 10 points in 2020. A new Emerson poll suggests that he and former President Trump are now in a dead heat in the Commonwealth. On Capitol Hill, Mitchell Miller, WTOP News. No surprises at former President Trump's latest nomination, but that hasn't always been the case in America's long history of political conventions. WTOP's Emeritus Congressional Correspondent Dave McConnell reports.