Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R), the Trump-backed Commonwealth gubernatorial candidate, criticized Democratic opponent Abigail Spanberger’s left-wing policies and her refusal to tell Jay Jones to drop out of the attorney general race over his threatening comments about a Republican lawmaker.
During a Monday call with reporters moderated by former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, Earle-Sears said the next 14 days before the Nov. 4 election will be “critical.”
“We will continue to highlight [that] Democrats are led by a self-proclaimed candidate driven by anger. What’s up, Abigail? Driven against whom and for what purpose?” Earle-Sears began, referring to a comment performed by Spanberger at a campaign event.
“So for the past four years, I have worked tirelessly alongside Governor Youngkin to ensure Virginia is the best place to live, work and raise a family,” the Republican continued, before listing one of her “main pillars” as being tougher on crime than her opponent. “Families deserve to be safe and protected, and Abigail has said her first act as governor would be to rescind Youngkin’s Executive Order 47, which allowed cooperation between Virginia police officers and ICE to obtain assistance in immigration enforcement. That would effectively make Virginia a sanctuary state.”
Spanberger, a former CIA agent and U.S. congressman, voted “in unison” with former President Joe Biden and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), supports energy policies that would “increase our cost of living,” voted for soft-crime legislation, and wants to allow men who identify as trans into girls’ bathrooms, Earle-Sears continued.
“I mean, she can’t even say whether or not Jay Jones should drop out of the race. Are you kidding me? Have you lost your mind?”
Earle-Sears’ latest campaign ad features clips of Spanberger refusing to answer the simple question of whether he still supports Jones after his 2022 messages were leaked in which he fantasized about then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R) and his children being shot to death.
The lieutenant governor closed her comments by denouncing the “blatant racism” of the Democratic Party.
“You keep seeing that over and over again. They say they love people who look like me, but they don’t. I mean, gosh, they’ve called me a white supremacist. Why would they do that? I’m the one who brought the bill 20 years ago to protect us from the KKK.”
In August, a leftist extreme protested Earle-Sears’ stand against Arlington Public Schools’ transgender locker room and bathroom policies by holding a sign that read, “Hey Winsome, if trans people can’t share your bathroom, then black people can’t share my water fountain.”
Another incident occurred over the weekend at a James Madison University football game, where a man identified while Scott Pogorelc, a contributor to “several” Democratic campaigns and an engineer at Zeta Associates, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, shouted a racist comment at Earle-Sears.
“Go back to Haiti!” shout. “Traitor!”
Earle-Sears, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who was born in Jamaica, not Haiti, responded on
“I thought Democrats were supposed to love everyone…and to be clear, I’m Jamaican. But I have nowhere to go back to, because America is my home,” she wrote.
A Lockheed Martin spokesperson said FOX 5 DC on Monday that Pogorelc is “no longer employed” by Zeta Associates after the company investigated the incident.
Olivia Rondeau is a political reporter for Breitbart News based in Washington, DC. Find it in X/Twitter and instagram.
