The average person getting their voting rights restored, Terry McAuliffe says, is "a 48-year-old white male." McAuliffe says ex-felon voters not likely to boost Clinton

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Tuesday said that Republicans like Donald Trump need not worry about losing his state to Hillary Clinton because of the 13,000 ex-felons whose voting rights he restored earlier this week.

The average person getting their voting rights restored, McAuliffe told MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports," is "a 48-year-old white male."


"Now, I'm not sure that's Hillary's demographic, but maybe it is. But what I did, and the actions I took, these are new voters," McAuliffe said. "We don't need these votes, and I speak for the Hillary campaign. She is going to win Virginia. We've been anywhere from eight to 10 points up now for five or six months. We have built a massive ground operation, which we’ve worked on many weeks here in Virginia. She's going to win it."

McAuliffe continued, "She doesn't need these votes, but let me tell you this, we're going to go out and try and earn them and put our message out of why they should vote for Hillary. But it’s 13,000 votes, and she's [in] very good shape."

The Democratic governor, a longtime Clinton ally, in April issued an executive order restoring the voting rights of more than 200,000 convicted felons. The state Supreme Court, following a lawsuit by Republicans, ruled that voting rights could only be restored on a case-by-case basis.