Congressional Democrats are refusing to accept blame for President Joe Biden’s stalled agenda while Democrat candidate Terry McAuliffe’s campaign has stumbled to the finish line ahead of Tuesday’s election.
Democrats are worried McAuliffe may lose Virginia’s gubernatorial race in a state Biden won by ten points in 2020. The possible negative results for Democrats has the far-left and more temperate members of the party resorting to slippery rhetoric to dodge being seen as “obstructionists.”
“Clearly, showing that we can make progress would have been nice,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) complained to Politico about Biden’s stalled legislative push.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) also agreed with his fellow commonwealth senator. “I wish they would have, and I’m just being really selfish,” Kaine said. “It would have been helpful in Virginia to have these bills done in mid-October instead of mid-November.”
Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) blamed the far-left for not passing any legislation that could have helped McAuliffe. “We haven’t gotten anything done. That says enough about their strategy,” he stated about the radical left.
Tester also admitted Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) Monday press conference, where he attacked the far-left for holding “hostage” the $1.2 trillion “bipartisan” infrastructure bill in the House, was a blunder. “I think Joe made a mistake,” Tester said.
“Moderate” Democrats blaming the far-left for bungling Biden’s agenda as Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin continued his rise in the polls was not accepted by Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).
“I’ve watched all the attack ads on Terry McAuliffe and not a single one has talked about the [infrastructure bill] not passing. They’ve all been about other things,” Jayapal told reporters, acknowledging the Virginia race was more about state issues than...
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