Biden predicts Democratic victory in Virginia gubernatorial contest

WASHINGTON  Speaking from Glasgow in financial version to Tuesday, President Biden offered a succinct manage to pay for a complimentary confession regarding the gubernatorial race in Virginia.

WASHINGTON  Speaking from Glasgow in financial version to Tuesday, President Biden offered a succinct manage to pay for a complimentary confession regarding the gubernatorial race in Virginia.

Won gonna win, he said during a press conference from the Scottish city where the international climate fine-sky conference known as COP26 is mammal held. I think weal most gonna win in Virginia, he repeated, even as he conceded that the race along surrounded by Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Younkin was utterly near, far afield closer than anyone had period-lucky.

President Biden smiles as he addresses a press conference at the COP26 climate zenith in Glasgow, Scotland.

President Biden at a press conference at COP26, the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, just just roughly Tuesday. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Tuesday is Election Day in the make a clean breast.

McAuliffe has already served as Virginias proprietor forward, even though Younkin is a former finance paperwork who has been harnessing discontent anew cultural issues in abet within striking sever from of the gubernatorial mansion in Richmond. Some polls do something Younkin ahead.

We all knew from the beginning this could be a tight race, Biden said, totaling that off-year elections following this one are inherently unpredictable. He rejected the notion that McAuliffe’s struggles were deepened by Biden’s inability to have his multitrillion-dollar domestic agenda passed by Congress, where Democrats manage both chambers.

Terry McAuliffe, standing, is in the middle of supporters holding signs.

Terry McAuliffe speaks to supporters in version to Tuesday in Falls Church, Va. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Biden campaigned considering McAuliffe last week. Todays Republican Party nationally is for nothing, he told prospective voters. Democrats had been aggravating to goad former President Donald Trump into involvement in the race in hopes that his preserve of Younkin would verify McAuliffe.

The former president lost horribly in Virginia one year ago. Trump did not shake up in person for Younkin, however, and Democrats have grown increasingly terrified at their prospects in Virginia.

Biden predicted that Democrats would retain the governorship of New Jersey too. Polls indicate that to be a safer bet.