President Biden spoke Wednesday afternoon regarding the COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11, but questions of course turned to other matters, including the news of the day — Republican Glenn Youngkin's defeat of Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor's race, a highly-watched outcome that's been positioned as a bellweather for the national political attitude and a sign of (mis)fortune to come.
"We all have an obligation to accept the legitimacy of these elections," Biden said when asked about Democrats' upsetting loss in a state Biden had previously won. "I was talking to Terry to congratulate him today — he got 600,000 more votes than any Democrat ever has gotten."
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