Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, said on Thursday he feels “great” about the election outcome so far, compared to how he felt last week going into the midterms. And with three key US Senate seats still undecided, he said he likes Democrats’ odds.
“Compared to how I felt last weekend, I feel great,” he told reporters at the US Capitol. “Obviously, we’ve got three undecided seats still to be counted but I like our odds better than the other folks … the fact that it’s two days after the election and we don’t know who is the majority in the House is remarkable.”
Asked what he would attribute the election results to, Warner said he believes a lot of it came down to democracy.
“You can argue the Democrats’ message wasn’t perfect,” he said. “It was a lot better than the media thought it was. And the one thing that’s absolutely clear was that for a lot of the Republican messaging, which was all about relitigating a 2020 election or denying the validity of our democracy, that is not what the American people wanted to hear. So, I think that is probably bigger than any other item.”
He continued to say he thinks some of the extreme viewpoints being embraced by some candidates made voters “uncomfortable.”
“I think that views that are so far out of the mainstream that either political party 10 years ago, eight years ago, they would have been viewed as ludicrous had an effect that one of the two political parties in had a lot of candidates that embraced from election denial to QAnon to, you know, re-litigation of the 2020 presidential election I think make folks uncomfortable,” he said.
On how the midterm election poised President Biden for reelection, Warner said Biden’s coming out “stronger.”
“He’s obviously coming out of this midterm stronger,” he said. “He seemed like, with the little bit I saw yesterday, he was having a good time with the press corp. If you can do that in these kinds of jobs, that’s a good place to be.”
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