WASHINGTON: Downplaying his partys loss in Virginia, President Joe Biden suggested that Democrat Terry McAuliffe couldnt have won the governors election based on the states history of rejecting candidates in that race when their party occupied the White House.
Hes wrong.
BIDEN: No governor in Virginia has ever won when hes of the same, or he or shes the same party, as the sitting president. remarks Wednesday.
THE FACTS: Not so.
While Virginia has a recent pattern of electing governors of the opposite party, McAuliffe himself defied that trend in 2013 by winning the governors mansion when Barack Obama was president.
The election at the time made McAuliffe the only Virginia gubernatorial candidate in 44 years to win when his party occupied the White House. A. Linwood Holton, Jr., an attorney and moderate Republican, previously won the governorship in 1969 when Republican Richard Nixon was president.
On Tuesday, Glenn Youngkin became the first Republican to win statewide office in a dozen years, tapping into culture war fights over schools and race to unite former President Donald Trumps most fervent supporters with enough suburban voters to notch a victory.
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