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Fact Check of Winsome Earle-Sears’ Interview Yesterday on Right-Wing Radio: a Massive Cavalcade of Distortions, Lies, Ignorance, “Projection,” etc.

Listening to this interview by itself should be enough to disqualify Sears to the vast majority of Virginia voters. What a nut.

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If you’ve been following Winsome Earle-Sears at all, you know that she has been spewing out lunacy, extremism and nonsense for  years now. Just a few examples to demonstrate what I’m referring to include:

Anyway, you get the idea – the woman is, let’s just say, “out there” in her views. And no, she hasn’t gotten any more “moderate” or sane over the years. Nor has she gotten any more factually accurate (or should I say, less factually INACCURATE). Check out her interview yesterday on hard-right WRVA Morning News, for instance, in which she said shit like the following (corrections in parentheses/bold/green by me):

  • “We must make sure that our businesses are safe, our inventories are safe, our employees are safe, you can walk down the street in your neighborhood. And my opponent of course would destroy all of that (note: in no way/shape/form would Spanberger do what Sears is claiming; it’s apparently just psychological projection by Sears because again, it’s complete bullshit), because she would get rid of qualified immunity (false again; in fact, Spanberger “supports the reform of qualified immunity, rather than its complete abolition“) . And of course, none of our law enforcement, Department of Corrections personnel will stay, we’ll have anarchy” (uh, no, we will not have “anarchy” with Abigail Spanberger as governor – again, weird psychological projection of some sort by Winsome Sears, very much a reflection of the warped way she thinks than of any sort of reality)
  • “Number three, are we going to create jobs? And my opponent has only job-killing ideas.” (100% false – in fact, Spanberger has a plan to create jobs and to restore Virginia to its #1 ranking as the best state for business, which we lost under Youngkin-Sears)
  • “[Companies] want to come to Virginia because they see common sense policies (note that whatever policies are in place in Virginia right now are the result of *Democratic* leadership, given that the last two governors, prior to Youngkin – and four of the last five prior to Youngkin – were Democrats, plus of course the General Assembly was controlled fully or in part by Democrats in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, so any laws that were passed had to have had Democratic approval) in place, not job-killing regulations, where my opponent would put back all 89,000 job-killing regulations (no clue where Sears gets this from, but the fact is, most regulations aren’t “job-killing,” but are there for the purpose of protecting workers, protecting our health, protecting the environment, etc. – and Sears wants to get rid of all that) that we’ve already gotten rid of. She will tell the businesses how much they will pay, what kind of benefits they will offer. And by the way, she will tax us half to death… (There is basically zero truth to the past two sentences by Sears, although obviously, Democrats support raising the minimum wage, so apparently Sears wants to not have a minium wage at all?)”
  • “I’m talking about her lieutenant governor nominee, Senator Hashmi, who has called women who have given birth to children ‘birthing persons’. (I checked, and as far as I’m aware, Hashmi has never referred to “birthing persons”) Well, I have never bought a Hallmark card that said ‘birthing persons day’. We are mothers and we are proud of our title. We’re proud of those women who have decided they will adopt other people’s childrens, and their mothers too. Don’t denigrate us. Don’t deny us. Don’t erase women.” (Obvoiusly, Hashmi hasn’t “denigrated,” “denied” or “erased” women – again, this appears to be 100% psychological projection and/or delusion of some sort by Sears…definitely nothing to do with reality.)
  • “We are the ones who created the economic successes…that we’ve had (This is WILDLY false, just a massive lie – in fact, the US economy staged a remarkable economic recovery under President Biden and the Democrats, one that’s now being seriously threatened by Trump and the Republicans. But regardless, in no way/shape/form were Youngkin-Sears responsible for Virginia’s economic successes the past few years – arguably, whatever successes we’ve enjoyed have been in SPITE of Youngkin/Sears – and Trump’s – idiocy.) It wasn’t my opponent. It wasn’t Hashmi. They were never in the rooms when any of this was happening. (No clue what this means, since Hashmi is a State Senator who absolutely was in the room crafting legislation; no clue what Sears was doing, other than ranting on right-wing radio, welcoming guests to the State Senate chamber, and occasionally breaking a tie vote, wuch as against guaranteeing women the right to contraception.) And so we need to make sure we get our Lieutenant Governor candidate, John Reid. We need to get our great attorney general, Jason Miyares. And we got to get the House back in.”
  • “I came back because I saw our kids weren’t being educated in the way that they were. They need to be. So many of them were failing. (In fact, Virginia has some of the best public schools in the country…) And I said to myself, somebody ought to do something. And that’s when you realize again that you’re that somebody. So, I came out of my private life back into public life.”
  • “We got to make sure that our energy policy is what it needs to be. My opponent is absolutely radical. (No, Spanberger isn’t “absolutely radical” – or “radical” at all, actually. Again, apparent psychological projection by Sears.) Now, she is trying to change herself, reinvent herself. You know, she’s calling herself now, I guess it’s a pragmatic Democrat (Yes, Spanberger is very much a pragmatic Democrat). Well, we have her on video saying she’s a progressive (the word “progressive” simply refers to making PROGRESS, which you’d think everyone – going back to Teddy Rooesevelt – would want to do, but not Sears apparently), but the media has been trying to paint her as this moderate (because, in fact, Spanberger was one of the most “moderate” Democrats in the US House). Not when you vote with Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden almost 97% of the time (no clue what Sears’ point is here, because Joe Biden certainly was no radical, nor was Nancy Pelosi; but the fact that Rs and Ds mostly voted with their parties is not exactly BREAKING NEWS or whatever).  Not when you have an energy policy that says all you’re going to have is solar and wind. (Yeah, not a single member of the Democratic ticket has said anything like that. But even if they had, the fact is that the vast majority of Virginians support clean energy development and moving towards a cleaner energy mix) Well, what happens when the solar and wind it’s not happening? (This is one of the oldest, one of the most dishonest, and one of the flat-out STUPIDEST talking points around, disinformation coming out of the fossil fuel industry, and total BULLSHIT. Because, in fact, we have such a thing known as “batteries,” and energy storage more broadly; we also have sophiisticated techniques, applied in countries, states and regions across the world, to balance out power flows based on knowledge of when the sun will be shining, the wind blowing, etc. It’s working literally all across the world, yet Sears is completely ignorant of this? That ALONE should be a reason not to vote for her. Because she’s either willfully ignorant, lying or just completely clueless.) Of course, it’s nonsense. And businesses aren’t going to come to an area where they don’t have the energy that they need. So, that means she’s going to drive up taxes, because where else is the money going to come from?” (Again, this is ridiculous; zero basis in fact.)
  • “I’m talking about just common sense ideas. (When far-right-wingers like Sears, Trump, Youngkin, etc. talk about “common sense,” it’s a dead giveaway that what you’re going to hear is the opposite of common sense, a bunch of far-right policies and/or lies.) I’m talking about the barber shops. You know, folks want to open their own barber shops and you’re going to tell them that their employees are going to have to join a union and if they’re going to keep the job, they have to pay union dues. I’m talking about liberty. I’m talking about Abigail Spanberger, go ahead with your own life and leave us alone. (This is just weird.) I’m talking about simple things like just don’t erase women…so that you could have a biological male in with your girl children undressing in all their full regalia. (Sears will be happy to know that nobody on the 2025 VA Democratic ticket wants to “erase women,” or have “your girl children undressing in all their full regalia.” Again, though, the types of things Sears is unhealthfully obsessed with tells you all you need to know about the way she thinks.) To me, that’s sexual trauma. We cannot do that, we simply cannot do that.”
  • “…She’s reinventing herself. So don’t believe what she says. Believe her voting record because that my friends is what really matters. Who are you really? And she has said that she supports sanctuary cities. (In fact, Spanberger “said she does not support ‘sanctuary cities’ but also called the term ‘a campaign slogan a lot of people get caught up in.’ She added that it ‘degrades the value of the conversation if we’re not actually talking about what the real concern is.'”)  We…are not going to give sanctuary to any criminals. We’re not going to give sanctuary to criminal illegals. You’ve got to go home. And she has voted to keep them here. (Link? What vote is Sears referring to here?) What about that makes any sense?…She is for nonsense where I stand for common sense. And she has voted against law enforcement, against our Department of Corrections personnel. How’d she do that? Well, she did that because she has voted for, well, to defund the police (this is a huge lie – in fact, Spanberger said she thought the whole “Defund the Police” slogan was “a terrible idea,” and “railed against members of her own party for playing into the GOP’s hands on ‘defund the police’ after the 2020 election”) and she has voted to get rid of their qualified immunity….She would create anarchy.” (Spoiler: Gov. Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer and postal inspector, will NOT “create anarchy” – far from it! – and it’s beyond laughable to even suggest such a thing).
  • “…she doesn’t have a real leg to stand on when it comes to common sense policies, common sense ideas. I mean, not again when you’re trying to get rid of the police. (Again, this is a huge, flat-out lie) Not again when you’re telling us the only education your child can ever have is public schools (Another huge, flat-out lie by Sears, as Spanberger never said your child can only attend a public school!)….We need everything. All of the above. I’m talking about public school, private school, parochial school, home school, whatever hybrid, whatever you want to do, you’re the parent. She has voted when it comes to education, especially that if your child is transitioning from some whatever biological person that they are, they hide that from you as a parent and that you don’t even know what the curriculum is being taught (This is a major distortion and oversimplification of a complex topic involving a bunch of issues…but Sears just wants to demagogue and fear monger on it, not be constructive in any way. That should be disqualifying – for Sears, that is!). That’s not what we want in Virginia. I mean, you name it, she has voted the other way.”
  • “Now, in my case, we have raised so much more money historically than any Republican ever has in the first quarter of their campaign and in the second quarter. (Huh? In fact, according to VPAP, Sears raised $13 million through June 30, far less than what Glenn Youngkin had raised at this point in 2021, and also less than Bob McDonnell had raised by this point in 2009 and than Jerry Kilgore had raised by this point in 2005)  So, I see some of the press has decided to, you know, take her side on things. And look, this is my surprised face. Why the media would do that, I don’t understand. But we have raised record amounts of money. I don’t have, of course, what she has had because, you know, Democrats traditionally raise more. But, you see, my common sense message will prevail…I am common sense. She is for nonsense. She’s running away from her record. We can’t afford her. She’s going to raise taxes. [Any evidence for this?] She’s going to raise our utility bills. [Any evidence for this?] She’s not going to get rid of the car tax in the way that I will.” [Spoiler: Sears isn’t going to get rid of the car tax, a local tax that would have to be replaced to make localities whole – and that ain’t happening.]

Bottom line: If you enjoy the fact that Donald Trump and Glenn Youngkin are pathological liars, you’re going to totally LOVE Winsome Earle-Sears! Seriously, though, if you listen to this interview and you know anything about…well, just about anything, then you will immediately notice Sears’ distortions, b.s., right-wing talking points and flat-out lies. Just ask yourself, is that the type of person you’d ever want to govern Virginia???

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