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First Republican steps up for 2025 Virginia governor race
« on: September 05, 2024, 01:08:46 pm »
First Republican steps up for 2025 Virginia governor race
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Elaine Mallon
September 5, 2024 12:02 pm
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With Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R-VA) term limits preventing him from running for reelection, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R-VA) has stepped up to run for governor of Virginia in the 2025 off-year election.

Earle-Sears filed her statement of organization with the Virginia Department of Elections on Sept. 4, which made her the first Republican to submit paperwork for the contest.

Earle-Sears became the second woman and the first woman of color to hold a statewide office. If she is successful in her 2025 campaign, Earle-Sears will become the first black woman to serve as governor in the United States.

Earle-Sears, Youngkin, and Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares were part of a mini-Republican revolution in Virginia two years ago.

Following a steady stream of Democratic wins in the once safe-red state, Youngkin and Earle-Sears won their 2022 contests with campaigns heavily focused on parental rights in education and fighting against critical race theory in public schools.

Prior to her role as lieutenant governor, Earle-Sears was a state delegate and served in the Marine Corps. She immigrated from Jamaica as a child.

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Re: First Republican steps up for 2025 Virginia governor race
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2024, 07:01:31 pm »
Cool!
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Re: First Republican steps up for 2025 Virginia governor race
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2024, 07:23:55 pm »
Glad to hear that… she will be a great Governor.
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Re: First Republican steps up for 2025 Virginia governor race
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2024, 08:30:47 pm »
I was hoping that's who it would be. I hope she wins and then Glenn Youngkin can run again and then she can run again. Maybe by that time, Virginia will be a committed red state.
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Re: First Republican steps up for 2025 Virginia governor race
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2024, 08:41:14 pm »
Quote from: ScottinVA on September 05, 2024, 07:23:55 pm
Glad to hear that… she will be a great Governor.

 :yowsa: :amen:
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Re: First Republican steps up for 2025 Virginia governor race
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2024, 08:53:15 pm »
Yay!  She will make an awesome governor!! happy77
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Re: First Republican steps up for 2025 Virginia governor race
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2024, 09:26:33 pm »
She would be running as a gubernatorial incumbent (a rarity in Commonwealth politics) had Trump chosen Glen Younkin as his VP.
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Re: First Republican steps up for 2025 Virginia governor race
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2024, 10:06:41 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on September 05, 2024, 09:26:33 pm
She would be running as a gubernatorial incumbent (a rarity in Commonwealth politics) had Trump chosen Glen Younkin as his VP.

I would have been ok with that pick... I'm still wondering why he picked Vance.
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Re: First Republican steps up for 2025 Virginia governor race
« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2024, 10:15:36 pm »
I think she will do well, and by the time she's ready, will move up.

She is not an NBC, so there is a ceiling there, but she is an awesome force in her own right and someone no one will ever be able to credibly accuse of being a DEI hire.
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Re: First Republican steps up for 2025 Virginia governor race
« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2024, 10:21:08 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on September 05, 2024, 10:15:36 pm
I think she will do well, and by the time she's ready, will move up.

She is not an NBC, so there is a ceiling there, but she is an awesome force in her own right and someone no one will ever be able to credibly accuse of being a DEI hire.

She would've been a great VP pick.
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Re: First Republican steps up for 2025 Virginia governor race
« Reply #10 on: September 06, 2024, 12:43:24 am »
Quote from: libertybele on September 05, 2024, 10:06:41 pm
I would have been ok with that pick... I'm still wondering why he picked Vance.

Vance has innate credibility with the "blue wall" states, is terrific at retail politics, quick witted and unafraid of the press. He's been working quite hard .... and is well worth watching if you get the chance.
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Re: First Republican steps up for 2025 Virginia governor race
« Reply #11 on: September 06, 2024, 12:50:54 am »
Quote from: libertybele on September 05, 2024, 10:21:08 pm
She would've been a great VP pick.

A VP should be eligible to be POTUS ---- and  Sears was born in Kingston, Jamaica and immigrated to the United States at the age of six; so she's not a NBC.
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