President Joe Biden is going through accusations that he’s performing like an “election denier” after suggesting throughout a marketing campaign speech that the defeated candidate in Virginia's 2021 gubernatorial election is the state's “actual governor.”
Throughout a speech on abortion in Manassas, Va., on Tuesday, Biden greeted the gang with, “Good day, Virginia,” and shouted out “the actual Governor Terry McAuliffe.” Though the viewers erupted in laughter and applause on the assertion, Democrat Terry McAuliffe will not be “the actual governor of Virginia.”
McAuliffe served as governor of the Commonwealth from 2014-2018 and unsuccessfully sought re-election for governor in 2021. He misplaced to Republican Glenn Youngkin, the present governor of the state, receiving 48.6% of the vote to Youngkin's 50.6%.
Noting Biden's description of his former opponent as “the actual governor of Virginia,” Youngkin responded to a contribution to X from a be aware accompanied by his quip: “Mr. President, I'm right here.”
A transcript of the president's remarks in Manassas, recorded by the White Home, signifies that instantly after calling McAuliffe the “actual governor of Virginia,” the president recognized himself as “Jill Biden's husband and good friend of Kamala.” He then used the phrase “joking apart” as he moved on to the principle topic of his speech: “reproductive freedom”. Whereas Biden didn’t imply his remark about McAuliffe significantly, his assertion drew accusations of hypocrisy from his political opponents.
The video clip shared by Youngkin was picked up by RNC Analysis, which describes itself as a fast response account run by the Republican Nationwide Committee devoted to “exposing the lies, hypocrisy and failed far-left insurance policies of Joe Biden and the Democratic Social gathering.” The RNC Analysis publish refers to Biden as an “election denier,” reflecting one of many president's most typical refrains as he seeks re-election within the 2024 presidential election.
The time period “election denier” is used to chastise anybody who raised questions concerning the end result of the 2020 presidential election, by which Biden defeated former President Donald Trump. Along with the time period “election denier,” the time period “massive lie” is rising in American politics as a phrase used to explain the assumption that Trump really gained the 2020 election.
The rhetoric surrounding the 2020 election has emerged as an necessary side of Biden's re-election bid. IN Posted on January 12th on X Biden said, “Those that push the massive lie haven’t any respect for the 81 million individuals who voted for my presidency. That's not democracy. That's not America.”
Though Biden gained greater than 81 million votes within the nationwide well-liked vote, the electoral margins within the states that finally determined the result of the election have been a lot tighter. In 4 of the six states that have been on the middle of the trouble to problem the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election, Biden gained by a smaller margin than Youngkin: Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Biden gained the states by margins of 0.4%, 0.3%, 1.2%, and 0.6%.
The 4 states had a mixed 47 electoral votes within the Electoral Faculty. Since Biden gained 306 electoral votes within the Electoral Faculty, which finally determines the presidency versus the nationwide well-liked vote, a reversal in these states would forestall Biden from reaching the 270 electoral vote threshold wanted to safe the presidency.
Whereas Republicans have raised considerations about voter fraud after the 2020 election, Democrats have routinely dismissed them as unfounded. All efforts by the Trump marketing campaign and different Republican elected officers and Republican-affiliated teams to problem the election outcomes utilizing the authorized system failed, and Biden took workplace because the forty sixth president on January 20, 2021.
In contrast to the 2020 presidential election, the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election didn’t come to fruition with allegations of voter fraud or illegitimate elections. McAuliffe issued a declaration the morning after the election, he acknowledged that he had “fallen quick” within the contest and congratulated Youngkin on his victory.
RNC Analysis collectively and much longer video with practically 24 minutes of footage exhibiting Democrats difficult the outcomes of a number of state and nationwide elections. Particularly, the video exhibits outstanding figures within the Democratic Social gathering suggesting that the outcomes of the 2000 presidential election, the 2004, 2016, 2018 Georgia presidential election, and the 2018 Florida presidential election, all gained by Republicans, have been illegitimate.
McAuliffe, who has been a part of Democratic Social gathering politics for many years, was featured a number of instances within the video, as was Biden. Biden disputed the outcomes of the 2000 and 2016 elections, whereas McAuliffe expressed doubts concerning the outcomes of the 2000 presidential election and the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election. Some clips within the video confirmed McAuliffe questioning the outcomes of the 2000 presidential election a few years later.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Put up. He could be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
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