Joe Biden returns to US with wake-up call for Democrats after brutal elections
- ‘People want us to get things done,’ the president says as feuding lawmakers from his own party hold up his sweeping domestic reforms in Congress
- Biden came home to a red wave that brought Republicans victory in the key Virginia governor’s race as well as gains in New York
“I do know that people want us to get things done,” he told reporters asking for his takeaway on long-time favourite Terry McAuliffe’s loss to a Republican newcomer in Tuesday’s Virginia governor’s election.
“And that’s why I’m continuing to push very hard for the Democratic Party to move along and pass my infrastructure bill and my Build Back Better bill.”
Amid nosediving approval ratings and frustration over his stalled economic agenda, Biden came home to a Republican red wave that swept over the eastern United States on Tuesday, from Virginia Beach to Long Island and beyond.
Republicans pulled off a decisive upset in the gubernatorial election in otherwise blue-trending Virginia, with untested multimillionaire Glenn Youngkin beating McAuliffe, while Democratic control of the governor’s mansion in New Jersey is hanging by a thread.