>>39701551Joe didn't "confirm" anything. He just made a logical deduction that since pre-evolution exists in the game, its evolution(s) will as well. But any of those evolutions could easily have a Galarian form that we don't know about.
For 11 days, Joe assumed that the original Raichu was present in SM, but Raichu got an Alolan form.
We also can't assume that every evolution of every Pokemon in the dex exists in a game, as many of them might be culled for regional evolutions.