Biden urges Democrats to approve his program after Virginia defeat

The president of USA, Joe Biden, He urged Democrats in Congress to come together to approve his economic plans, saying that is what the voters want after his party’s defeat in Tuesday’s elections in Virginia.

In the White House, Biden reacted for the first time to the fact that the Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, lost Tuesday against his Republican rival, Glenn Youngkin, in a setback for the president and his party.

“One of the sacred rights we have is the right to cast our vote, and remember, we all have an obligation to accept the legitimacy of these elections,” said the president.

“What I know is that people want us to do things, and that is why I am pushing a lot for the Democratic Party to move forward and pass my infrastructure bill” and the social spending bill, he added.

However, the president tried to draw a fine line on the question of whether he believes that, if Congress had approved those economic plans before Tuesday’s elections in Virginia, the Democratic candidate would have won.

“We should have passed them before the election, but I’m not sure I could have changed the number of very conservative people who came out to vote in Republican districts, who were voters of (Donald) Trump. Maybe, maybe, ”he said.

Biden acknowledged that he himself won the state of Virginia by ten points in last year’s presidential election, but recalled that he was “competing against Donald Trump.”

“People are overwhelmed. And I think what has happened is that we have to produce results for them, to change their standard of living and give them a little more space to breathe, “he stressed.

The president insisted that there is much discontent and “uncertainty” on many issues, “from COVID-19 to schools to jobs, or the cost of a gallon of gasoline,” and promised that if Congress approves his initiatives, “many of those things are going to improve quickly ”.

Biden downplayed criticism from those who say he and his party focused their campaign too much on profiling the Republican candidate in Virginia as a Trump ally, rather than talking about the issues that affect the people.

He assured that if he mentioned Trump during his rally in Virginia last week it was “because the issues that the former president supports” are affecting the lives “of the voters of that state every day, and have a” negative impact. “

The president acknowledged that the Democrats have to better “explain” their position so that the Republicans do not win the battle on issues such as the critical theory of race, an academic doctrine that considers that the United States’ slave-owning past is the origin of racism. systematic that still exists.

Youngkin vowed to banish that theory from Virginia schools, even though it is not taught in Virginia public schools or any other.

Despite the impact of disinformation on this and other issues, Biden maintained his optimistic forecast about the prospects for Democrats in the elections in the coming years: “We will do well,” he settled.