The swift insistence by White House allies that the results should not be read as a reflection of public sentiment about President Biden is evidence that the results won't spur soul-searching or a course correction.
Historically, the party that holds the presidency has struggled in off-year elections. But White House officials had been hopeful earlier in the year that they could buck the trend after passing a Covid-19 stimulus bill, ramping up vaccine distribution and seeing infections drop during the summer.
Biden won Virginia by 10 percentage points last year. But on Tuesday, Glenn Youngkin became the first Republican to win the governorship since 2009. Democrats lost control of the state's House of Delegates. In solidly blue New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, was locked in a tight race with his Republican opponent.
Another person close to the White House cited exit polls that showed 28 percent of voters attributed their vote to negative feelings about Biden.
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