This morning on far-right/MAGA radio (WRVA with John Reid), Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears – who has had some major problems with Trump (e.g., see here, in which Sears ripped Trump for being “all about him” and also making racist comments, declaring, “I didn’t join the Trump Party, I joined the Republican Party”; then got denounced by Trump as “phony” and by Amanda Chase as “a zero”) – really laid it on thick about how, supposedly, Trump’s RNC speech last night proved that he’s a “changed man,” blah blah blah. Yeah, it’s crazy and nauseating (see audio/transcript, below, and fair warning – this very well could induce projectile vomiting!), not to mention totally false bullsh** and 100% insincere, but clearly Sears has done the political calculations and concluded that if she wants to seek the Republican nomination for governor in 2025, she’s not going to be able to do so if she’s at loggerheads with the cult leader. So she’s decided to do whatever it takes, including groveling, to get back in Trump’s good (or at least not bad) graces. Yuck.
“I saw a different man last night I saw a changed man…you can see it in his demeanor, forget about the speech…he said for example, ‘we rise together or we fall apart’…He sounded like Lincoln; Lincoln said ‘a house divided against itself cannot stand’…He said ‘I’m wanting to represent all of America, not half of America’. And he credited God for having been on his side. And he said ‘I stand here only by the grace of almighty God’. He didn’t just say God, he said ‘almighty God’. He said ‘I have a righteous vision’…and he said ‘I extend the hand of loyalty and friendship to all people – Black, White, Asian, everybody’. He said, ‘I humbly ask for your [vote]; I never heard that word from his mouth…And then he finally finished up with ‘we live in a world of miracles’. And then he said every single moment we have on Earth is a gift from God. John if that’s not a change man I don’t know…”
Speaking of possibly running for governor of Virginia in 2025, here’s what LG Sears had to say about that subject.
“I am not running for election/reelection as lieutenant governor against, I’ve already decided that. So not running for reelection. I know that there are people on the Republican…side who want to run for lieutenant governor, and I’m saying by all means let’s get that started, let’s get it done, because the other side they already have I think four or five people now already jumped in and we’ve got to get that started – we can’t wait, we’ve got to get that done…Now I am exploring the run for governor, I’m exploring the run…When I stop exploring then I’ll let you know…”
With that, if you want some “nightmare fuel,” just imagine a country “led” by Donald Trump and JD Vance, and Virginia led by people like Winsome Sears and/or Jason Miyares, and make sure you vote (Democratic, of course) like your lives depended on it this November, next November, and EVERY November!
P.S. Sears also mentioned that she’s recovering from COVID, which is apparently why she didn’t preside over the State Senate yesterday or travel to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention (of course, she might not have wanted to attend anyway, given her past antipathy towards/from Trump).
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