Biden blames Trump voters and 'conservative folks' for Democrat's loss in ...

Joe Biden blamed on Wednesday Donald Trump's supporters for the crushing defeat of Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia's gubernatorial race, suggesting if his agenda passed before Election Day that the results may have been different. 

'I think it should have passed before Election Day, but I'm not sure that I would be able to have changed the number of very conservative folks who turned out and the red districts who were Trump voters. But maybe,' the president said during a White House event on Wednesday.

When asked if Democrats should have won in Virginia considering Biden won it by 10 points in 2020, the president said: 'I know we did, but we also – I was running against Donald Trump.'

Biden said that he continues to bring up Trump 'because the issues he supports are affecting their lives every day, and their negative impact on their lives.'

'People are upset and uncertain about a lot of things – from COVID to school to jobs to a whole range of things, and the cost of a gallon of gasoline,' the president said.

Warring factions of the Democratic Party have played the blame-game ever since the election was swaying the way of Republican Glenn Youngkin on Tuesday evening.

The Democrat's left flank blamed the loss on the establishment former Governor Terry McAuliffe. Progressives, led by 'squad' member Ilhan Omar, insist the Democratic Party needs to go even further left to win future elections.

On Tuesday at the COP26 in Glasgow, Scotlan, Biden said of the Virginia election: 'We're gonna win. I think we're gonna win in Virginia. The race, it's very close. It's about who shows up, who turns out.'

'Granted I did win by a large margin [in Virginia], but the point of the matter is I think that this is going to be – what we all knew from the beginning – it's going to be a tight race. And it is tight,' he said Tuesday as voters went out to cast their ballots.

Biden made short remarks at the White House Wednesday regarding the new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approval for children aged 5-11 to get the coronavirus vaccine.

Rather than being able to celebrate that win for his administration, Biden's day was mired by the losses in Virginia – where Republican candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general won in a state that has been increasingly blue the last few elections.

'Yesterday reminded me of that one of the sacred rights we have is to be able to go out and cast our votes,' Biden said on Wednesday.

'And remember,' he added, 'that we all have a responsibility to accept the legitimacy of these elections.'

The president said he called to congratulate McAullife for receiving a record-number of votes, despite losing the election.

Before Tuesday night, any Americans under 12-years-old were not able to get vaccinated against COVID-19, leading to nationwide mandates requiring school-age children to remain masked at all times. The new approval now allows children 5-11 to get the Pfizer vaccine. 

Progressive Democrats blamed their party for not doing enough to combat the Republican's 'race-baiting bulls***' as factions played the blame game for McAuliffe's crushing defeat in Virginia and a close gubernatorial race in New Jersey on Tuesday night.

Senator Tim Kaine (D-Ohio) said he hoped his colleagues would treat the dismal showing like the 'Ghost of Christmas Future' and moderates called for an end to in-fighting with Biden's agenda still stalled and his approval ratings plummeting. 

Even the mainstream media was damning of the results and the fallout with CNN saying Biden returned from Europe to a 'political nightmare', The New York Times suggesting the president's falling approval rating 'heavily shaped' the dismal showing, and The Washington Post said it confirmed the collapse of the coalition that propelled the Democrats to victory over Donald Trump in 2020.

'The menacing thunder couldn't get much louder for Democrats,' Lisa Lerer of The NY Times wrote. 'The Republican resurgence on Tuesday in Virginia — a state that President Biden won by 10 percentage points last year — and surprising strength in solidly blue New Jersey offer a vivid warning of the storm clouds gathering as Democrats look warily to the horizon.'

The Democrat's left flank blamed the loss on the establishment Gov. Terry McAuliffe – in a race where Youngkin hammered the Democrats on Critical Race Theory, parental control of the school curriculum and made huge gains on Donald Trump with white women and the suburbs while holding his base.

'Squad' member Omar (D-Minn) let it be known she believes the party's establishment wing is to blame in Virginia, on a night when voters in her Minneapolis constituency rejected a proposal to replace the cops with a public safety department.

She retweeted a comment by Twitter user Secular Talk that said 'Can't wait for the left to be blamed for a not at all left democrat losing a D+10 state.' She added a face-smacking emoji. 

A statement by the Battle Barn Collective - far-left coalition of groups including the Battle Born Collective, Justice Democrats and the Sunrise movement - called the Virginia results a 'shellacking' that should be a 'wake up call' for the party and called McAuliffe's campaign 'milquetoast'.

'Terry McAuliffe ran the milquetoast campaign he wanted to run — where every other word he uttered was 'Donald Trump' instead of focusing on the issues voters cared about the most,' they said in a statement.  What happened in Virginia is what happens when Democrats fail to take on the GOP's divide-and-conquer racism and motivate people to turn out. 

'The McAuliffe campaign had no comprehensive pro-worker economic message against a literal private equity magnate. It had no positive message on what the next four years would be like for Virginians. It had no rebuttal to Republican race-baiting bull****. Put simply: it was a campaign designed to fail.

On the flip side, centrist Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia urged Democrats to take the events in Virginia as a cautionary tale for lawmakers to focus more on the constituents in their state.  

He said the results, not just in the governor's race but all the way down the ticket, were 'unbelievable' and was proof that people are concerned about issues such as inflation. 

The infighting highlighted sharp divisions over President Biden's $1.75 trillion Build Back Better plan, which remains stalled even as seasoned Democrats warned of harsh repercussions if the party fails to unify and start producing results. 

Youngkin's win over McAuliffe, who conceded Wednesday morning after the smack-down in a state Biden won by 10 points just a year ago, coincided with months of internal bickering over Build Back Better – which had yet to get a House vote as of Wednesday and didn't have a sign-off from two crucial Democratic senators.

Seasoned Democrats and outside groups are warning the party to put an end to the endless display of sausage-making or face an ominous off-year election poorly armed. 

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a former chair of the Democratic National Committee under Barack Obama, lamented the failure of legislative action, and said it made a difference in his state.  

McAuliffe 'could have had a really great wind at his back if Democrats had been willing to get the deal done. So I'm just saying I hope my colleagues absorb this notion that when you have the majority, the D in Democrats should stand for doer, not delay, dithering, do nothing, division,' Kaine told reporters in the Capitol. 

'I hope the Dems view this as the Ghost of Christmas Future experience - like this isn't what the future has to be but if you don't change your ways, this isn't the future will be,' he said.