Terry McAuliffe, the Democrat candidate for the Virginia governor’s race, warned that President Joe Biden is “unpopular” in Virginia in off-the-cuff remarks during a video conference. “We’ve got to get Democrats out to vote,” McAuliffe, the former governor of the state, said in the Tuesday night virtual event with Virginia Democrats. “We are facing a lot of headwinds from Washington, as you know. The president is unpopular here in Virginia, so we have got to plow through,” McAuliffe said, referring to Biden. Virginia’s off-year elections are viewed as a bellwether contest for the party that controls the presidency and could serve as a preview of the 2022 midterms. A spokesperson for the McAuliffe campaign said on Wednesday in a statement to news outlets that the candidate’s “point was clearly that Democrats can’t take anything for granted and must turn out to vote this year: Glenn Youngkin is running on a divisive, Trumpian …
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