Warner added the success of centrists this past week is part of a larger trend in Virginia where candidates who run on centrist, fiscally responsible platforms do well.

“This is not just a message to come from 2019,” he said, noting that when Virginia Democrats picked up 15 seats in 2017 “there was arguably one, maybe two candidates that were super progressive.”

He said “the vast majority” of successful candidates “had very much followed in the traditional Virginia Democratic model of we’re going to give you responsible government, it’s going to be fiscally responsible.”

Biden’s backers in the Senate are also seizing on the wins in Kentucky, Virginia and Pennsylvania to argue that having a moderate atop the ticket in 2020 will help Senate candidates.