Virginia Governor’s Race Heats Up As Republican Winsome Sears Does a Hard Reboot of Her Campaign

[mystery-ak]

Does not look good for Sears..


Virginia Governor’s Race Heats Up As Republican Winsome Sears Does a Hard Reboot of Her Campaign
By Teri Christoph | 6:30 PM on July 17, 2025

We are long overdue for an update on the gubernatorial race in Virginia, where Republican Winsome Sears, the commonwealth's current lieutenant governor, is taking on Democrat Abigail Spanberger, who served from 2019 to 2024 in the U.S. House of Representatives, so let's get down to it.

As a reminder, the current Republican governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, cannot run for consecutive terms, so he's not on the ballot this year. And Virginia is one of two states, the other being New Jersey, that have off-year elections. It's not the most high-stakes of election cycles, but the results certainly could provide clues about how each party will fare in next year's critical midterms.

I wrote a few months back about how the Virginia GOP's statewide ticket got off to a rocky start after reports emerged that Youngkin wanted John Reid, the lieutenant governor nominee (who happens to be gay), to withdraw from the race over some questionable social media content. Reid denied the content was his and has weathered that storm just fine. So, the the November ticket is set:

    Governor: Winsome Earle-Sears
    Lieutenant Governor: John Reid
    Attorney General: Jason Miyares (incumbent)

Despite the initial strife, the three candidates appeared together earlier this month at a rally in Northern Virginia—traditionally an electoral weak spot for the GOP due to the large number of federal workers who live there—in a show of unity. And a united front is something they're going to need, based off the results of a recent Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) poll showing the entire ticket running behind their Democrat counterparts.

https://twitter.com/NickMinock/status/1945502685123248255

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https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025/07/17/winsome-sears-is-rebooting-her-gubernatorial-campaign-n2191768

[Fishrrman]

Fishrrman "well, somebody's got to say it™" prediction:

Ms. Winsome Sears is going to lose.

She wasn't born in the USA, right...?

And of course, there's the "race/gender" factor. Like it or not, that can still matter to folks in the southern and southwestern areas of the state. It is what it is.

Glen Youngkin's probably going to be a "one election wonder".
Can't even run for a second term.
Why the heck does Virginia have a state law like this?
(could it have been Reconstruction era, pushed by the dems?)

EDIT:
I posed the question to perplexity.com, and it say that this goes all the way back to 1851, a state constitutional amendment.
Hmmm...
I'm going to GUESS that back then, VA was indeed controlled by the democrats of the day...

[mountaineer]

The left-wing Spanberger may as well be Canadian. What a disaster she'll be, if elected.

https://twitter.com/PolitiBunny/status/1954503237857337383

[mountaineer]

Winsome Earle-Sears
@winwithwinsome
Abigail Spanberger calls it a “distraction” when local police work with ICE to remove criminals.

https://twitter.com/winwithwinsome/status/1954550180964872576

[mountaineer]

Spanberger is not fond of the Second Amendment.

https://twitter.com/PolitiBunny/status/1955228666503336008

[mountaineer]

Expect more of this - and worse - if Spanberger is elected.

A Loudon County, VA school has SUSPENDED multiple boys who were uncomfortable with sharing their locker room with a female who is pretending to be male:

https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1957574771442376716

[Fishrrman]

In a recent poll, the d-communist is at 48% and 7 points ahead of Ms. Sears.

Ms. Sears will probably "get a little closer", but she's still gonna lose.

The northern/eastern section of the state may be a bit more "modern", but the deep southwestern part still has a good number of "de ol' white folks", and they won't be voting for Sears.

Will the Pubbies be smarter (it's called "realpolitik") next time...?
Or will there BE "a next time" for them in Virginia...?

[Hoodat]

When does the Virginia GOP plan on endorsing Spanberger?

[mountaineer]

The🐰FOO
@PolitiBunny
So the first thing @SpanbergerForVA will do is make Virginia a magnet for illegals.
Virginia, are you paying attention?
8:04 AM · Aug 27, 2025

https://twitter.com/MSchmidtRVA/status/1960658011585687670

[Smokin Joe]

The🐰FOO
@PolitiBunny
So the first thing @SpanbergerForVA will do is make Virginia a magnet for illegals.
Virginia, are you paying attention?
8:04 AM · Aug 27, 2025

https://twitter.com/MSchmidtRVA/status/1960658011585687670

Nice, professionally printed signs...typical astroturf.

[Wingnut]

Nice, professionally printed signs...typical astroturf.

Look at all the white people.  Sad people.  They have to mow their own lawn now, vote democrat.

[Smokin Joe]

Look at all the white people.  Sad people.  They have to mow their own lawn now, vote democrat.

Life gets harder with no one to exploit...

[mountaineer]

Abigail Spanberger caught criminally laundering $5,219,442 into her congressional campaign. Political Committee C00649913, SPANBERGER FOR CONGRESS has accepted 25,592 Smurfed donor transactions totaling $5,219,442

https://twitter.com/PeterBernegger/status/1968492641059787013

[Hoodat]

Virginia Democrat gubernatorial nominee worked at Saudi school known for Hamas links, jihadi grads

Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic hopeful for Virginia governor, leans heavily on her CIA credentials when running for office. But her stint at the Islamic Saudi Academy has been a source of controversy in her prior races.

Jerry Dunleavy  |  October 5, 2025  |  11:03pm

The Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Virginia worked for a Saudi government-controlled school just after 9/11, at a time when the Islamic academy was already controversial for being controlled by the Saudi royal family and for its extremist textbooks which taught hatred of non-Muslims.

Abigail Spanberger, a former Democratic congresswoman from Virginia, is currently the favorite to be the state’s next governor, according to polling averages. When it was revealed during her first congressional run in 2018 that she had worked for the Islamic Saudi Academy in northern Virginia during the 2002-2003 school year, Spanberger said that she was “proud” and “not ashamed” of her work history, despite the fact that, when she chose to work at the school, it was also already well known for its links to the terrorist group Hamas and for its recent graduates who had seemingly considered carrying out a jihad-inspired suicide attack in Israel.

The problematic nature of the Saudi academy — known as the ISA in shorthand — would be revealed even further in the years which followed.

A review by Just the News of hundreds of contemporary and historical news reports found that the following facts were widely-reported and well-established  .  .  .

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/spanberger-worked-saudi-government-school-known-hamas-links-jihadi-grads

[American Girl]

Excerpt:
You have to admire the sheer gall of Democrats like Abigail Spanberger—dodging a simple yes-or-no question like it's a grenade, all while exposing their radical agenda to shove boys into girls' restrooms and locker rooms. In Thursday night's Virginia gubernatorial debate, Spanberger faced off against Republican powerhouse Winsome Earle-Sears, and the fireworks flew when the moderator asked if she'd rescind Gov. Glenn Youngkin's policy requiring bathrooms to align with biological sex. Spanberger hemmed and hawed, babbling about "local communities, parents, teachers, and educators" making decisions—code for letting the woke mob dictate policy. Sears cut through the nonsense: "That's a YES or NO! The girls need PRIVACY." Spot on, Winsome—our daughters deserve safety, not Spanberger's spin.




Abigail Spanberger knows she cannot justify her desire to allow men in female locker rooms and showers so she tap dances and defers to abdicate her leadership role.

https://www.rightjournalism.com/dem-deflection-abigail-spanberger-refuses-to-answer-boys-in-girls-restrooms-question-but-its-a-yes-video/