Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain spins Virginia election losses by touting Dem victories in deep blue areas

White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain said Sunday that the Democrats should "take pride" in winning deep blue areas like New Jersey and New York City after suffering a devastating loss to Republicans in the Virginia gubernatorial race last week.

"Terry McAuliffe is an old friend of mine. So sad to see him lose the Virginia legislature," Klain said. "But it’s also worth noting, on Tuesday night, we did get Governor Murphy, the first Democrat in 44 years to get re-elected in New Jersey. We held on to the mayorship in New York, Eric Adams, is a great new leader for our party. We lost the mayorship of New York in 2009, the last time we had a new democratic president.

"We had a lot of great, exciting Democrats elected around the country," he continued. "The first woman, the first person of color elected mayor of Boston. We had Shontel Brown elected to the U.S. House in Ohio. So we definitely suffered some losses on Tuesday, no question about it. We have to learn from that, we have to do better from that. But I also think we had wins on Tuesday and we can take pride in that, too."