The contest for the governorship of Virginia is the commonwealth’s principal race.
With just days until Virginians head to the polls, former Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears have been making their cases for why they should be elected as the next governor of the commonwealth.
The Democratic nominee, Spanberger, is the leading candidate with most polls showing her ahead by 10 percentage points.
The Republican nominee, Earle-Sears, was elected to office with Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-Va.) in 2021.
The vacant governorship has resulted from the state constitution barring governors from serving consecutive terms, meaning that Youngkin cannot run for reelection.
Spanberger is running on a platform of repealing Virginia’s car tax, which treats cars as property and levies annual charges on them, protecting federal workers from layoffs and terminations by the U.S. Government, as well as implementing her economic plan.
“I am motivated by the idea that if ever there is a little girl anywhere who wants to move home to Virginia, I want there to be a house that her family can afford in the community they want to live in,” said Spanberger at an Oct. 28 rally.
“I want there to be jobs available to her parents, where they can provide for their family.
“I want that little girl to have a school where she is safe within its walls, where her teachers are well-paid and well-respected, where the air she breathes is clean and the water she drinks is fresh, where she knows that as she grows up, her rights will be respected.”
By Arjun Singh and Jackson Richman
