At this point, just two months before early voting starts, by almost any metric – fundraising, polling, the campaign manager being fired, etc. – Winsome Earle-Sears’ incompetent, historically bad Virginia gubernatorial campaign is in turmoil. See below for some reactions to that, including the former head of the VA Log Cabin Republicans (also a former Youngkin appointee) arguing that Earle-Sears is “the dumbest person to run for Governor of Virginia maybe ever,” and “everyone knew this and said nothing.” Ouch. Also, see below for a new ad out highlighting Earle-Sears’ record backing Trump’s attacks on Virginia jobs. This all comes a day after a new poll finds Earle-Sears trailing Abigail Spanberger by 12 points.
So, obviously let’s take nothing for granted, and to the contrary let’s work to absolutely run up the score this November. But for now, you’ve got to rather be the “blue” team than the “red” team, that’s for sure.
DPVA Launches New Ad Highlighting Sears’ Record Backing Trump’s Attacks on Jobs
VIRGINIA – Following Virginia losing its “Top State for Business” ranking because of Donald Trump’s attacks on Virginia jobs, the Democratic Party of Virginia is launching a new digital ad highlighting Winsome Earle-Sears’ record cheering the actions that are hurting Virginians.
As Trump has threatened Virginians’ livelihoods, Sears was caught on tape saying “the media is making it out to be a huge, huge thing… and I don’t understand why.” Sears said she would help Trump “get the job done” and that she’s “supporting what the President is doing.”
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Transcript:
Reporter: Well, Virginia is no longer the top state for business.
Reporter: Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why.
Reporter: UVA quarterly economic forecast predicts the Commonwealth will lose 32,000 jobs in 2025.
Narrator: And what is Sears saying about the Trump job cuts?
Winsome Earle-Sears: How many here have ever lost a job? Oh, you mean it’s not unusual. The media is making it out to be this huge, huge thing, and I don’t understand why.
Sears: I’m supporting what the President is doing.
Narrator: Virginia is hurting, and Winsome Earle-Sears just isn’t listening.
Read more about Sears’ extreme record defending and downplaying the attacks on Virginia jobs:
CNBC announced that Virginia lost the “Top State for Business” ranking due to the attacks on Virginia jobs that Sears supports.
Winsome Earle-Sears has defended Trump’s attacks on Virginia’s workforce and economy.
- She told the Associated Press that she backed Trump’s efforts and she doubled down.
- She also said Virginians facing layoffs will “be all right.”
- As Donald Trump attacked Virginia’s workforce and economy, Sears declared she would help Trump “get the job done” if she were governor.
- Sears has also said “I’m supporting what the President is doing.”
Winsome Earle-Sears has dismissed and laughed off attacks on Virginia jobs over and over again.
- Winsome Earle-Sears was caught on tape dismissing and laughing off the attacks on Virginia jobs saying “the media is making it out to be a huge, huge thing… and I don’t understand why.”
- When a reporter asked about her comments exposed by Meidas Touch, Sears doubled down and said her message to Virginians facing layoffs is “Don’t despair. Please go to the website.”
- Instead of standing up to attacks on Virginia jobs, Sears told Virginians facing layoffs “don’t fret.”
- Sears also said “just about everybody has lost a job … It is life happening.”
Hahahahahahaha…well this is going to make Trump really happy with Sears, huh? LOL
NEW AUDIO: Instead of Standing Up for Virginia Jobs, Sears Complains About DOGE Harming Her Campaign
VIRGINIA – New reporting from the Dogwood uncovered audio from an event where Winsome Earle-Sears complains about Donald Trump’s attacks on Virginia jobs harming her campaign as she refuses to stand up for the Commonwealth’s economy and Virginians’ livelihoods. In the audio, Sears says “just DOGE, DOGE, DOGE, DOGE and Trump and DOGE and Trump. And so then I started down six points. Dropped me six points in January.”
Sears previously was caught on tape downplaying and dismissing the attacks on Virginia jobs: “the media is making it out to be a huge, huge thing… and I don’t understand why.” Sears also said she would help Trump “get the job done” and that she’s “supporting what the President is doing.”
“Winsome Earle-Sears has made it crystal clear that she isn’t concerned about Virginians’ jobs or Virginia’s economy as she supports Trump’s attacks. Instead of complaining about how DOGE’s threat to Virginia will harm her politically, Sears needs to actually stand up for Virginians,” said DPVA Spokesperson Maggie Amjad.
Dogwood: AUDIO: Earle-Sears said Trump, budget cuts hurt her campaign
- In audio from a June event in Virginia Beach, Earle-Sears blamed Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency for her unpopularity.
- Winsome Earle-Sears has embraced President Donald Trump’s unpopular federal cuts, […].
- Earlier this month, Earle-Sears, Virginia’s lieutenant governor and the Republican nominee for governor this fall, told the conservative station Newsmax TV that Trump’s massive policy bill that’s expected to take away health care from hundreds of thousands of poor and middle class Virginians “does so many great things.”
- Those comments followed others in which she downplayed the pain of laid off federal workers, saying she doesn’t understand why, “The media is making it out to be a huge, huge thing,” and telling workers, “Don’t despair.”
- But previously unreported audio obtained by Dogwood shows that Earle-Sears understands the challenge her campaign faces in aligning with an unpopular president advancing policies that are putting Virginians out of work and threatening their health care.
- In audio from a June event in Virginia Beach, Earle-Sears blamed Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency for her own unpopularity.
- “She was throwing that on the left and right,” Earle-Sears said of Spanberger, who has made Earle-Sears’ support for Trump a sticking point of the campaign. “Just DOGE, DOGE, DOGE, DOGE and Trump and DOGE and Trump. And so then I started down six points. Dropped me six points in January.”
- Virginia, of course, is home to hundreds of thousands of people either living or working for the federal government, and Trump’s cuts have taken a significant toll. Virginia’s unemployment claims for the week ending July 5 were up 33% compared with the same time a year ago.
- Other state and local leaders are also raising alarm bells about Trump’s federal cuts.
- Dogwood shared the June audio with the Earle-Sears campaign prior to publishing it with this story. The lieutenant governor’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
