President Biden shared his opinion on why Virginia governor’s race, which CNN initiatives Republican Glenn Youngkin received over Democrat Terry McAuliffe.
“No governor in Virginia has ever received when he is of the identical or she or he is identical social gathering of the sitting president,” Biden stated throughout remarks on the White Home Wednesday afternoon. “What I do know is, I do know that individuals need us to get issues carried out. They need us to get issues carried out. And that is why I’m persevering with to push very onerous for the Democratic social gathering to maneuver alongside and go my infrastructure invoice and my Construct Again Higher invoice.”
Biden additionally chalked up the loss to a “entire vary of issues,” together with the continued coronavirus pandemic, he stated.
“Persons are upset and unsure about a number of issues from Covid to highschool to jobs to an entire vary of issues,” the President stated. “And the price of a gallon of gasoline. And so if I will go, signal into legislation my Construct Again Higher initiative, I am in a place the place you will see quite a bit of these issues ameliorated shortly and swiftly.”
Requested if takes accountability for McAuliffe’s loss or if he thought the Democrat would have received if his Construct Again Higher agenda handed earlier than Election Day, Biden stated: “Effectively, I feel we must always have handed earlier than Election Day. However I am unsure that I might have the ability to have modified the variety of very conservative of us who turned out within the crimson districts who had been Trump voters. However perhaps, perhaps.”
