WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Joe Biden said Wednesday the Democrats' setbacks in Tuesday's elections underscore that the party needs to 鈥減roduce for the American people," but he pushed back against the notion that the off-year election results were a repudiation of his presidency.
Biden insisted that his inability to get Congress to pass a $1 trillion infrastructure deal and a $1.75 trillion package of social and climate programs ahead of the voting didn't make a difference.
In Virginia's governor's race to first-time Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin in a state that Biden won by 10 percentage points a year ago.
鈥淚 think we should have passed it before Election Day, 鈥� Biden said. 鈥滲ut I鈥檓 not sure that I would have been able to change鈥� people's minds in Republican-leaning areas either way.
He added that, 鈥減eople are upset and uncertain about a lot of things鈥� including the pandemic, the job market and the price of a gallon of gasoline.
Colleen Long And Aamer Madhani, The Associated Press
