The Virginia governor’s race has always been treated as a referendum on the White House incumbent. The result this time — with Democrat Terry McAuliffe losing to his Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin, a year after Biden swept the state by 10 percentage points — amounts to a referendum squared. US politics is considerably more nationalised than it has ever been, which makes this a terrible result for the president. The message to him from Virginia is to turn things around before it is too late.
維吉尼亞州州長選舉一直被看作是對白宮現任政府的公投。這一次的結果——民主黨人特里•麥考利夫(Terry McAuliffe)敗給共和黨對手葛倫•揚金(Glenn Youngkin)，而一年前拜登(Biden)以10個百分點的巨大優勢贏下該州——相當於公投的平方。美國政治的全國化程度比以往大幅提高，意味著這對總統而言是個很糟糕的結果。維吉尼亞州給他的訊息是，要在事態無可挽回之前扭轉形勢。
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