By J Robert Smith
- Oct. 10, 2025
- 3-min read
Abigail Spanberger is the Democrat nominee to be Virginia’s next governor. She can’t even answer a simple question: “Should males be allowed in female restrooms and locker rooms?” She won’t give a straight answer when she’s asked because if she says, No,” LGBTQ+ activists will turn on her. Their money will dry up. Northern Virginia’s affluent, progressive whites might walk away.
On the other hand, if Spanberger says, “Yes,” then the large middle of Virginia voters might go for Winsome Earle-Sears, Virginia’s current lieutenant governor. Earle-Sears has made it crystal clear that males don’t belong in female restrooms and locker rooms.
Here’s Spanberger weaseling out of answering the restroom question in last Thursday night’s debate with Earle-Sears:
Abigail Spanberger voted for the so-called Equality Act. That vote says a grown man can walk naked into your daughter’s locker room and if she’s uncomfortable, she’s the problem.
Virginia, ours daughters are not the problem, politicians like Abigail are. pic.twitter.com/E6sNdnnPsW
— Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) October 9, 2025
Spanberger also said that her voters need to be fueled by rage. This is her idea of trying to motivate the Democrat base to vote? It’s an odd choice of words in light of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Here’s the Merriam Webster Dictionary definition of rage:
a: violent and uncontrolled anger
b: a fit of violent wrath
c: archaic : insanity
Virginia really wants a governor who is calling for her voters to stoke their anger to the point of… rage? Spanberger isn’t dumb. She knows what rage means. It was no slip of the tongue, either. She believes that her voters need to work themselves up into a frothing anger. Where does uncontrolled anger lead?
Real Clear Politics has Spanberger running ahead of Earle-Sears by an average of seven points. That’s outside the margin or error. Balloting has been underway since September 19, so a lot of votes have been cast. There’s still three weeks before the November 4 election deadline, so Earle-Sears could gain ground and win. But it would be a squeaker.
Then there’s Jay Jones, the Democrat nominee for attorney general. National Review surfaced text messages from a few years ago. When Jones was a state delegate, he messaged a colleague about the GOP Speaker of the House, saying “[Speaker Todd] Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot, [sic]” Jones wrote. [Who gets the bullets?] “Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”
Jones fantasizing about killing Gilbert wasn’t satisfying enough. He then stated he wished the speaker’s children would die in their mother’s arms.
Jones’ campaign has taken a hit, but even after those messages were revealed, he’s still leading incumbent GOP attorney general Jason Miyares by a point in a recent poll. Jones appears to be tanking, but a lead is still a lead. His support should have cratered. Yet, it’s a good bet that Miyares overtakes Jones. Whether or not that hurts Spanberger’s candidacy is the key question.
Neither Spanberger nor any other prominent Virginia Democrat has called for Jones to drop out. If there was ever a case where decency overrides partisanship, its Jay Jones’ candidacy. Yet, Democrats remain silent. What does that tell us?
It tells us that Democrats have a decency problem. Their lust for power is greater than their willingness to call out one of their own for outright violent and ghoulish intentions.
If you’re a Virginia voter, keep that in mind.