Spanberger becomes Virginia’s first female governor

Democrat Abigail Spanberger has been elected governor of Virginia per the Associated Press She will be the first woman in the commonwealth s history to hold the role Spanberger was favored against Republican Lt Gov Winsome Earle-Sears for the entire campaign season Still the race was closely watched by political prognosticators and operatives as the purple state is thought to give particular insight into voter sentiment nationwide In her conquest speech Spanberger called for Virginia to unite and set an example for the rest of the nation Our founders understood this from the very beginning They didn t choose to call Virginia a commonwealth by accident They chose it to signify that our regime would be based on the power of the people united for a common good she disclosed Tonight Virginia proved that that tradition is alive and well Related Fear of gay blood and confused minds Virginia Republican touts encouragement from anti-gay preachers The former congresswoman ran hammered issues of affordability and Trump s federal workforce cuts a kitchen-table issue in the D C suburbs of Northern Virginia That careful strategy was rattled after texts from Attorney General candidate Jay Jones leaked In those messages from Jones bad-mouthed state-level Republicans At one point he shared that if he was given a gun with two bullets and in a room with Adolf Hitler Pol Pot and the former Speaker of Virginia s state House he would shoot the GOP speaker twice Kansas Gov Laura Kelly praised Spanberger s win The chair of the Democratic Governors Association called the race a warning sign to all Republicans running in in a report Abigail won by building advocacy from voters across party lines because she stayed relentlessly focused on her positive plans to lower costs and her commitment to putting provision ahead of politics Kelly reported Read more about this topic Clown car GOP losing hope in Virginia governor s race How New York could have avoided a nasty mayoral electoral contest Trump administration proposal for online voter registration form raises concerns The post Spanberger becomes Virginia s first female governor appeared first on Salon com