Biden predicts Democrat Terry McAuliffe will win Virginia’s governor race

President Biden, responding to a question about the Virginia gubernatorial race, predicted that Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe would win the contest, saying, “We’re gonna win.”

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- Mr. President, you tweeted earlier asking Virginia and New Jersey residents to vote. Democrat Terry McAuliffe is struggling in a state that you won by 10 points. Do you see his problems as a rebuke of your presidency? And could this signal your real losses for Democrats in the midterms?

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: We're going to win. I think we're going to win in Virginia. And you know you're reporting it being close. The race is very close. So it's about who shows up, who turns out. And granted, I did win by a large margin, but the point of the matter is that I think that this is going to be-- we all knew from the beginning, this is going to be a tight race. And this tight, this could get down to turnout.

And it's going to-- my guess is I'm going to be landing at 1 o'clock in the morning East Coast Time, that's probably about the time we'll be hearing what the final results are. I think we're going to win New Jersey as well. But look, you know, the-- the off year is-- is always unpredictable, especially when we don't have a general election going on at the same time. That's been the case up and down, you know, for a long time, especially as Virginians turn more and more blue.

But having said that, I-- I don't believe, and I've not seen any evidence that whether or not I am doing well or poorly, whether or not I've got my agenda passed or not, is going to have any real impact on win it or lose it. Even if we had passed my agenda I wouldn't claim we won because Biden's agenda passed. But I think it's-- I think it's going to be very close. I think it's going to get down to, as you all know, turnout.

And I think that based on what I have heard so far, it's awful hard for me to be prognosticating, which I don't like doing as president, anyway, from overseas. But I think-- I hope that every eligible voter in Virginia and New Jersey shows up and votes. And the more of them that do, the better off I think our chances are. And I think we're going to-- I think we're going to win.