AFP
Arlington (United States) (AFP) – US President Joe Biden on Tuesday threw his weight behind the struggling Democratic candidate in Virginia’s closely watched election for governor, urging a crowd to defeat Republican “extremism.” Standing by Terry McAuliffe, whose slide in the polls has put Democrats on red alert for a wider Republican comeback in next year’s midterm battle for Congress, Biden mocked the Republican opponent as an “acolyte of Donald Trump.” “You’ve had the courage and the wisdom to reject the extremism that has taken over the Republican Party all across America,” Biden told the…