Now That It’s All But Certain Winsome Sears Will Be the 2025 VA GOP’s Nominee for Governor, Here Are 30 Stories That Help Understand Where She’s Coming From

Now that it’s essentially certain that Virginia Lt. Governor Winsome Sears will be the Republicans’ nominee for governor next year, see below for a list of just 30 of the many, many weird, wacky, extreme, bizarre, outlandish things Sears has said and done over the years. Note that this is just a short list, but it gives you the flavor of what type of individual we’re talking about here – and why it’s going to be so important that Sears not be elected governor of Virginia next November!

1. Video: The Buena Vista Labor Day Speech By Virginia LG Winsome Sears Has to Be Seen to Be Believed. WTF??? (Sears: “Four years later, they’re removing body parts from our children and calling it freedom”)
2. VA Democrats on “MAGA Extremist Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears Running for Governor” (“If elected governor, she’d unleash her radical agenda: outlawing abortions, rolling back gun safety measures, dismantling LGBTQ+ rights, gutting healthcare for millions, and slashing funding for public schools”)
3. Audio: On MAGA Radio, LG Winsome Sears Desperately Grovels to Get Back in “Changed Man” (LOL!) Trump’s Good Graces; Says She’s “Exploring” a 2025 Run for Governor, Definitely Will NOT Run for Reelection as LG
4. VA Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears Decries Protesters “Destroying Your Buildings,” “Showing Up With Helmets…Gas Masks…Bear Sprays,” Assaulting Police. Nope, She’s Not Talking About the 1/6/21 Violent Insurrection.
5. Former VA Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R): “Spanberger is an outstanding candidate, and none of the prospective Republican candidates will be able to compete with her.” (“If the GOP wants to be competitive in 2025 they must find someone other that Jason Miyares or Winsome Sears to carry the banner.”)
6. DPVA Chairwoman Calls On Youngkin To Disavow Lieutenant Governor’s Comments On Richmond Shooting (“Simply put, serious times need serious, thoughtful leadership – and Lieutenant Governor Sears is not a serious leader.”)
7. Loudoun County Chair Phyllis Randall Calls on Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears to Correct Her “historically incorrect assertion that…Brown v Board was not about racial segregation but instead about school choice”
8. Far-Right LG Winsome Sears “Comparing Brown v. Board to the quest for taxpayer funded Segregated Academies: The Second Coming™️ is some real heinous shit”
9. Video: On Bill Maher’s Show, VA Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears Talks Trump’s Indictment, Waco, Jamaican Marijuana, Politicians’ Pictures with Big Guns, “lap dances at school by a drag queen,” etc.
10. Lt. Gov. Sears’s and Attorney General Miyares’s Radical Abortion Record
11. Audio: LG Winsome Sears Comments on SCOTUS Abortion Opinion, Says “All of a sudden we know what a woman is now?” and “the KKK could not be happier about so many Black women not having their babies”
12. Governor Youngkin and Lt. Governor Winsome-Sears Lead Attack on Women’s Right to Choose (VA Dems: Youngkin Doubles Down on His Anti-Choice Stance, Participates in “March for Life”; Sears Declares “Abortion is Wicked”)
13. Donald Trump Says He’s “Never felt good about Winsome Sears” (Who Used to Chair “Black Americans Making America First”), Calls Her “Phony” (Amanda Chase also weighs in, says Sears has “gone from a hero to a zero”)
14. Video: VA Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears, Formerly a HUGE Trump Supporter, Now Says “Enough Is Enough”; Trump Spokesperson Warns “There Will Be a Reckoning” (VA Sen. Amanda Chase, a full-blown MAGA/Trump cultist, calls Winsome Sears and Tim Anderson “weak ass Republicans”)
15. Audio: Virginia LG Winsome Sears, Who Was a HUGE Trump Supporter, Now Says “He bailed on US”; “I think it’s YOU who’s sanctimonious”; “I didn’t join the Trump Party, I joined the REPUBLICAN Party!”
16. THE PERFECT MATCH: Anti-Abortion Radical (Winsome Sears) Endorses Anti-Abortion Radical (Yesli Vega) in Virginia (“The two have recklessly spread lies about abortion, spewed anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and are dangerously out of step and out of touch with the values of Virginians.”)
17. Audio: VA LG Winsome Sears Says What Happened in Highland Park, IL Shows That “there are laws about how murder, murder, murder, murder, murder, murder and yet we have murders”
18. Video: On Abortion, Virginia LG Winsome Sears “the mother is not having a lizard, she’s having a human being” and “The blood running through the veins of the baby don’t [sic] belong to her, it’s not her blood”
19. “An embarrassment to Virginia”; “It’s the guns Ms. Sears…IT’S THE GUNS!!”; “Enough is enough. Do your damn job.”
20. Audio: On Right-Wing Radio, LG Winsome Sears Defends Speaking at NRA Convention – “We’re not elected to be cowardly…if you are on the right path, then stay on that path” (Sears says the problem is definitely NOT the guns; it’s “mental health,” “social media,” “broken families,” “kids self medicating,” etc.)
21. Video: Virginia Dems Say It’s “Utterly Disgusting,” “Shameful,” and an “Abomination” That LG Winsome Sears Is Speaking at the NRA Convention in Texas Just Days After the Mass Shooting in Uvalde
22. After Mass Shooting In Elementary School Leaving 19 Children Dead, Lt. Gov. Sears Will Be Keynote Speaker at NRA Event in Texas This Weekend (DPVA: “We call upon the Lt. Governor to not attend this event, but also to denounce the NRA [which] is complacent in the face of another mass shooting.”)
23. Audio: LG Winsome Sears Comments on SCOTUS Abortion Opinion, Says “All of a sudden we know what a woman is now?” and “the KKK could not be happier about so many Black women not having their babies”
24. After Major Blowback Over Her TX Abortion Bill Comments, VA GOP Lt. Gov. Candidate Falsely Claims It Could NEVER Happen Here Because “Virginia is very different from Texas”
25. Hala Ayala For LG on Winsome Sears “doubl[ing] down on her extreme views and join[ing] ‘Audit the Vote’ protesters outside of the State Capitol today”
26. Virginia Democratic Lt. Governor Nominee Hala Ayala Calls on “Extreme Republican Nominee” Winsome Sears to Drop Out of “Election Integrity” Rally
27. EMILY’s List: GOP Candidate For VA LG Spews Misinformation About Reproductive Rights, Compares “clinics that provide health care services to the Ku Klux Klan”
28. Video: VA GOP Lt. Gov. Nominee Gives Shoutout to Conspiracy Theorist/Extremist Lyndon LaRouche; Says Marijuana Legalization “is gonna destroy us” and “I’m tired of people being offended”
29. The VA GOP’s 2021 LG Nominee Headed Up “Black Americans to Re-Elect [President Trump]”; Here’s What That Group Stands For
30. Audio: VA Sec. Education Atif Qarni, Marques Jones Push Back *Hard* on Lt. Gov. Nominee Winsome Sears’ Wildly False Claims About Virginia Schools (Among other things, Sears falsely claims that “84% of Black kids are failing.” Qarni: “She just made up some numbers…she doesn’t know what she’s talking about”)