Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears announced her bid to succeed term-limited Gov. Glenn Youngkin in 2025, telling Fox News that she wants to build on her fellow Republican’s record of revitalizing the Old Dominion’s economy. Earle-Sears, if successful in the primary, will potentially face Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., if the similarly prominent Virginian wins the Democratic primary.
We've got to keep building on that. We have had corporate headquarters that have moved here — even from overseas. We have grown businesses here. We have been an incubator for business,' Earle-Sears said on 'Fox & Friends.' 'It's all about business, because that's where the money comes from, so that we can have the beautiful things we like; the quality of life, the schools, the roads, the bridges, all of that.
The 2025 election will be about continuing the extraordinary results from commonsense policies that are making Virginia the best place to live, work and raise a family versus returning to the failed extremism of the left-progressive agenda.' Earle-Sears, who emigrated from Jamaica as a youth, would be the first Black woman to hold such an office in Richmond. She served in the U.S. Marine Corps and was previously a state legislator from Virginia Beach.
only had three months to run and no money,' she said. 'When you have the right ideas, and when you know the voters have given you a mandate to run, to move forward, then you've just got to press forward,' she said on Fox News Channel. 'You have hostile legislators who want to stop you every way because they're thinking you're going to get a win — but the win is for the people.