Biden to Campaign for Terry McAuliffe in Virginia

Politics|Biden volition caput to Virginia to run for Terry McAuliffe, his archetypal foray connected the run way arsenic president.

• July 23, 2021, 12:12 p.m. ET

President Biden volition articulation erstwhile Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who is seeking to regain his aged occupation successful November, for an lawsuit connected Friday successful Northern Virginia, marking Mr. Biden’s archetypal instrumentality to the run way since helium entered the White House.

Mr. Biden is acceptable to talk astatine the run lawsuit for Mr. McAuliffe successful a parkland successful Arlington, a abbreviated thrust from Washington, connected Friday evening.

Mr. McAuliffe easily won the Democratic nomination for the Virginia governor’s contention successful June, hoping to instrumentality to the bureau 4 years aft helium served his term. The authorities does not licence governors to tally for consecutive terms. Mr. Biden won Virginia handily past twelvemonth connected his mode to the White House, but immoderate Democrats are disquieted astir Mr. McAuliffe’s prospects this twelvemonth against Glenn Youngkin, a governmental newcomer and erstwhile backstage equity enforcement who is the Republican nominee and who has the quality to walk millions of dollars from his ain slope relationship to assistance marque the contention competitive.

Mr. McAuliffe, who mulled a statesmanlike tally successful 2020 but passed and endorsed Mr. Biden, has sought to marque the contention a referendum connected erstwhile President Donald J. Trump, who has backed Mr. Youngkin enthusiastically. Mr. Trump remains fashionable with Republicans successful the state’s agrarian areas but has alienated moderates successful the Washington suburbs.

Mr. McAuliffe has sought to tether Mr. Youngkin to Mr. Trump, joking that helium would wage for the fuel for Mr. Trump to sojourn the authorities and run for Mr. Youngkin. And the erstwhile politician has embraced Mr. Biden, expressing anticipation that the president volition run for him aggregate times earlier November.

Ahead of the visit, the White House released a inheritance expanse to reporters that touted the astir $10 cardinal successful fiscal alleviation for authorities and section governments and schoolhouse districts successful Virginia nether the $1.9 trillion economical alleviation measure Mr. Biden signed into instrumentality successful March, on with signs of advancement for the authorities system successful its rebound from the pandemic recession.