Biden made two false claims in this short section of his remarks yesterday on the Virginia election: 
It's unusual in recent decades for a VA governor candidate to win with a partymate as president, but far from unprecedented: McAuliffe himself did it in 2013; Republicans did it in 1969 and (with a party-switching former Dem governor) in 1973; lots of Dems did it prior.
(And no, Biden couldn’t have been talking only about sitting governors, since a) he was talking about McAuliffe’s performance; b) more importantly, sitting Virginia governors can’t even run for re-election.)
Biden was also way off on the "600,000 more votes than any Democrat ever has gotten." McAuliffe got the most for a Democrat running for VA governor, but his total is somewhere in the ballpark of 200,000 more than Northam's 2017 total, not 600,000 more.
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