Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman arrived at the Burlington Electric Department, a polling place in Burlington’s South End, just before 4 o’clock on Thursday afternoon, after crisscrossing Chittenden County throughout the day.
Zuckerman, who is challenging Republican Gov. Phil Scott, said turnout at the polls has seemed high, and he has felt enthusiasm from voters.
The lieutenant governor said that Covid-19 has made his chances of unseating the Republican governor harder. Scott has received high marks, and extra publicity, for his handling of the pandemic.
“I think we knew originally going into it we don’t upend the incumbent very often in this state. I felt like I had a good shot going in. Covid, I think made that harder,” Zuckerman said.
“I think we stayed on the message of both Covid and the other issues that existed prior to Covid and were exacerbated by Covid. And I think that’s resonating with a fair number of people,” he added.
“Whether it’s enough, I don’t know but I feel better today after being at the polls than I did coming into today,” he said.
