President Biden referred to defeated Democratic ex-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe as the state’s “real governor” Tuesday — even though Biden has made Donald Trump’s failure to accept the result of their 2020 presidential election a centerpiece of his re-election bid.
“Hello, Virginia! And the real governor, Terry McAuliffe,” the 81-year-old president said while gesturing to McAuliffe as Biden began a campaign speech in Manassas focused on abortion rights.
Virginia’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, who defeated McAulliffe in 2021 by 2 percentage points, tweeted Tuesday evening that he was the real deal.
“Mr. President, I’m right here,”
Youngkin wrote.
Youngkin spokesman Rob Damschen
added on X, “There are only two options here: Either the President doesn’t know who is Governor of Virginia right now, or he’s denying the results of Virginia’s 2021 election.”
In an e-mail blast, Youngkin’s political office said, “Joe Biden — underwater among Virginians by 17 points according to recent polling — came to the Commonwealth today to spout election denialism.”
The Republican National Committee also tweeted video of the event
captioned, “Election Denier Joe Biden.”
A White House official insisted that Biden was not denying the Virginia election results.
“The President was making a joke about McAuliffe’s previous term as governor,” the official told The Post in a statement. “He congratulated Governor Youngkin on his election out of the gate and has worked across the aisle with him ever since.”
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