“On Democrat Terry McAuliffe's loss in the Virginia governor's race: "no governor in Virginia has ever won when ... he or she is the same party as the sitting president.”
What FactCheck.org found
While it has been rare, McAuliffe, himself, was elected governor of Virginia in 2013, when Democrat Barack Obama was president (and Biden was vice president).
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In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 3 November 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 November 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/11/03/remarks-by-president…
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