Virginia is one of the few states that holds off-year elections, which often serve as bellwethers for the following years, and this year’s gubernatorial race is especially important.
On one hand, there is Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R), a pro-freedom candidate who previously served in the U.S. Marine Corps. On the other is former Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D), a vociferous gun grabber who has been endorsed by practically every gun-control group in the nation.
Earle-Sears has long been a champion for Second Amendment rights. She has proven to be very pro-freedom while serving as lieutenant governor. Prior to that, she was the first black Republican woman in Virginia’s General Assembly, and she later accepted presidential appointments and served at the U.S. Census Bureau and on an advisory committee to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
“Your right to defend yourself must always be protected,” Earle-Sears said to America’s 1st Freedom Editor in Chief Frank Miniter. “And, you know, I’m an immigrant to this wonderful country and I’ve seen what it looks like when, in other parts of the world, people don’t have this freedom.”
Spanberger, meanwhile, spent her days in Congress demonizing law-abiding gun owners. More recently, she also refused to call for Jay Jones, Democrat candidate for attorney general, to exit the race, after texts showed that he fantasized about shooting former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican, and about the death of Gilbert’s “little fascist” children.
Earle-Sears, however, remains upbeat and resolute.
“We are going to win in November because we have the common-sense ideas that will keep jobs coming to Virginia, that will keep more money in our taxpayer’s pockets, that they worked hard for and that will keep them safe and secure … . If they’re not safe and secure, we cannot have economic development. We can’t even talk about that. We can’t talk about education. That won’t matter. None of this will matter [without law and order]. And so, again, this is why we need our own protection in the form of our own guns,” Earle-Sears said.
