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Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, who has received former President Donald Trump’s endorsement in the gubernatorial race, sharply criticized her Democratic rival Abigail Spanberger for her progressive policies and her hesitation to urge Jay Jones to exit the attorney general race following his menacing remarks toward a Republican lawmaker.
In a press call on Monday, overseen by former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, Earle-Sears emphasized the importance of the next two weeks leading up to the November 4 election, describing them as “critical.”
“We’re going to continue to highlight [that] the Democrats are led by a candidate who self-proclaims that she is fueled by rage. What rage, Abigail? Fueled against whom, and for what purpose?” Earle-Sears began, referring to a comment made by Spanberger at a campaign event.
“Over the past four years, I have worked diligently alongside Governor Youngkin to make Virginia an exemplary place to live, work, and raise a family,” she stated, highlighting her commitment to being tougher on crime than Spanberger. “Families deserve safety and security. Abigail’s intention to reverse Youngkin’s Executive Order 47, which facilitates cooperation between Virginia police and ICE for immigration enforcement, would effectively turn Virginia into a sanctuary state.”
Earle-Sears further criticized Spanberger, a former CIA officer and U.S. Congresswoman, for aligning closely with initiatives of President Joe Biden and Representative Nancy Pelosi. Earle-Sears accused Spanberger of supporting energy policies that could increase living costs, endorsing lenient crime legislation, and advocating for transgender males to use girls’ restrooms.
“She can’t even decide if Jay Jones should withdraw from the race. Seriously? Is she out of her mind?” Earle-Sears questioned.
Earle-Sears’ latest campaign ad features clips of Spanberger refusing to answer the simple question of whether she still supports Jones after his 2022 messages fantasizing about then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R) and his children being gunned down were leaked.
The lieutenant governor closed out her remarks by calling out the Democratic Party’s “blatant racism.”
“You keep seeing that over and over again. They say that they love people who look like me, but they don’t. I mean, heavens, they’ve called me a white supremacist. Why would they do that? I’m the one who carried the bill 20 years ago to protect us from the KKK.”
In August, a left-winger protested Earle-Sears’ position against the Arlington Public Schools’ transgender locker room and bathroom policies by holding a sign that read: “Hey Winsome, if trans can’t share your bathroom then blacks can’t share my water fountain.”
Another incident occurred over the weekend at a James Madison University football game, where a man identified as Scott Pogorelc, a contributor to “several” Democrat campaigns and an engineer with Zeta Associates, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, shouted a racist comment at Earle-Sears.
“Go back to Haiti!” he yelled. “Traitor!”
Earle-Sears, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who was born in Jamaica, not Haiti, responded on X:
“I thought Democrats were supposed to love everyone … and just 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 told FOX 5 DC on Monday that Pogorelc “is no longer employed” by Zeta Associates after the company investigated the incident.
Olivia Rondeau is a politics reporter for Breitbart News based in Washington, DC. Find her on X/Twitter and Instagram.
