Virginia Gov. Youngkin Says Biden Cannot Be President Again in 2024

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks to media after a "Parents Matter" townhall in Leesburg, Va., on Sept. 12, 2023. Terri Wu/The Epoch Times

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Sunday criticized President Joe Biden for projecting “weakness,” but acknowledged that the current president was the “legitimately elected president” when pressed.

In an appearance on ABC News’ “This Week,” Mr. Youngkin was asked whether he could give a yes or no answer on whether the 2020 election was “stolen.”

“I’ve consistently said that Joe Biden was legitimately elected president. He’s sleeping in the White House. I wish he weren’t,” Mr. Youngkin said. “In all candor, the chaos that we see around the world and at home is his projected weakness. International foreign policy has resulted in multiple spots of chaos, from Israel to Ukraine to China. His foreign policy weakness, again, has resulted in bad adversaries being funded like Iran.”

Former President Donald Trump has said that the 2020 election was “rigged,” pointing to multiple factors including voter fraud, social media working against him leading up to the election, and the controversial letter signed by intelligence veterans declaring the Hunter Biden laptop story Russian disinformation.

This is not the first time that Mr. Youngkin said President Biden was “legitimately elected.” In 2021, when he was a Virginia gubernatorial candidate, he also said that he would have certified the results of the 2020 election if he were in Congress.

Nor is it the first time that Mr. Youngkin has criticized President Biden over China. During an interview with Fox News in March, the governor said the president had a “weak” strategy on China, before adding China is trying to “dominate the world” at the expense of the United States.

During the Sunday interview, Mr. Youngkin also criticized President Biden over his border policies.

“And then we see his weakness at our border, which has turned every state into a border state,” he said. “The free flow of illegal drugs and crime has really invaded everywhere. We have five Virginians a day on average that die from fentanyl overdoses. And of course, the chaos in our economy is not only hurting Virginians and Americans, but it projects weakness around the world yet again.”

In August, Mr. Youngkin announced that local authorities had seized over 2,000 pounds of illegal narcotics, including 47 pounds of fentanyl, since the start of Operation Bold Blue Line, an effort launched in October last year to reduce the state’s homicides, shootings, and violent crime.

Mexico cartels have been buying precursor chemicals from China to make fentanyl and ship finished products to the United States.

In September, 25 Republican governors, including Mr. Youngkin, sent a letter to President Biden, demanding the administration provide information on illegal immigrants.

“And so, I wish he weren’t our president,” Mr. Youngkin added. “We can’t afford to have him be our president again. And Virginians are telling me every single day that these issues, these issues of jobs and inflation and public safety and great education for their children are so important. That’s where we need to be focused and commonsense policies do work. We’ve demonstrated it in Virginia.”

“And I’m looking forward to having Virginians come to the polls on Tuesday, and hopefully hold our House, flip our Senate so we can do even more to drive Virginia forward,” he concluded.

In Virginia, all 100 state House seats and 40 state Senate seats are up for grabs this year.

On Nov. 3, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris announced 23 endorsements for Virginia Democratic candidates running for the state’s elections on Nov. 7.