Personal believes, even those out of step with voters, are not necessarily a political liability. Tim Kaine as an example is personally pro life.
Sears won't lose voters if she can convince them that she won't act on her personal believes in office.
I just doubt that Sears can do that. You need practice to talk about this in a convincing way. Which Sears doesn't have as she avoids talking about the topic at all.
What Tim Kaine has that Earl-Sears doesn't have is the ability to put his personal pro-life views aside in the name of working women the right to think and decide for themselves what they want to do with their bodies.
Also, this anti-abortion rally Earle-Sears attended along with Governor Youngkin is going to be a liability for her in the general election. This coming after Trump becoming POTUS.
I can already see the Spanberger camp potentailly using campaign ads with Early-Sears at this rally. She's going to be hammered with this.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, both Republicans, joined thousands of Virginia activists Wednesday for an annual anti-abortion demonstration, where attendees denounced Democratic lawmakers who have blocked proposed restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Earle-Sears, who addressed a rally just outside the Capitol before attendees marched through downtown Richmond, joined other speakers in calling for housing, support and other resources for expectant parents. She also expressed compassion for women who have had abortions and exhorted attendees to keep up their advocacy.
“Let’s pray that hearts will be changed. Let’s pray that our legislators will change and the laws will change,” said Earle-Sears, whose voice broke with emotion at the start of her remarks.
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision ending constitutional protections for abortion and allowing states to enact bans, Youngkin said he hoped lawmakers in the then-politically divided General Assembly would enact new limits. He asked them to send a bill to his desk banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy with exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother.
Spanberger will certainly address that. Here in Virginia, being viciously anti choice is a liability and has been for decades, even when the Old Dominion was still a hardcore Republican state at the Presidential level. I attended a Spanberger house party in McLean last night. One thing that she WILL have to address - she hemmed and hawed on it - is whether or not she supports efforts to repeal so called "right to work" here. Terry McAuliffe was absolutely hammered on this issue four years ago, and Earle-Sears will absolutely address it.
I think Spanberger may be in a better position than McAuliffe to address this concern about the right-to-work law but certainly the earlier the better. No disrespect to McAuliffe but he's better as a Democratic Party fundraiser and operative than he is an politician.
Now that she's out of Congress and on the campaign trail primarily focused on the gubernatorial race, Spanberger will be able to address this early on.
I'm not sure if support for RTW(FL) repeal is a political liability in today's Virginia. It certainly was in the past, which is why both Mark Warner and Tim Kaine openly supported this law in their runs for Governor in 2001 and 2005. However, Virginia is now a bluer state, so I'm not sure that supporting the repeal of this law is a liability.
To my knowledge, there hasn't been a poll recently that measures how Virginia voters feel about RTW(FL) laws, but I'd be curious to see one. Any such poll, though, would have to explain to respondents what these laws actually entail, since I imagine most people out there don't actually know that.
I’m sure her support is sincere; if anything, she probably finds it insufficiently draconian
Personal believes, even those out of step with voters, are not necessarily a political liability. Tim Kaine as an example is personally pro life.
Sears won't lose voters if she can convince them that she won't act on her personal believes in office.
I just doubt that Sears can do that. You need practice to talk about this in a convincing way. Which Sears doesn't have as she avoids talking about the topic at all.
What Tim Kaine has that Earl-Sears doesn't have is the ability to put his personal pro-life views aside in the name of working women the right to think and decide for themselves what they want to do with their bodies.
Also, this anti-abortion rally Earle-Sears attended along with Governor Youngkin is going to be a liability for her in the general election. This coming after Trump becoming POTUS.
I can already see the Spanberger camp potentailly using campaign ads with Early-Sears at this rally. She's going to be hammered with this.
https://apnews.com/article/virginia-abortion-protests-glenn-youngkin-edf65ed4610f256344dd9c8571e674d8
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, both Republicans, joined thousands of Virginia activists Wednesday for an annual anti-abortion demonstration, where attendees denounced Democratic lawmakers who have blocked proposed restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Earle-Sears, who addressed a rally just outside the Capitol before attendees marched through downtown Richmond, joined other speakers in calling for housing, support and other resources for expectant parents. She also expressed compassion for women who have had abortions and exhorted attendees to keep up their advocacy.
“Let’s pray that hearts will be changed. Let’s pray that our legislators will change and the laws will change,” said Earle-Sears, whose voice broke with emotion at the start of her remarks.
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision ending constitutional protections for abortion and allowing states to enact bans, Youngkin said he hoped lawmakers in the then-politically divided General Assembly would enact new limits. He asked them to send a bill to his desk banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy with exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother.
Spanberger will certainly address that. Here in Virginia, being viciously anti choice is a liability and has been for decades, even when the Old Dominion was still a hardcore Republican state at the Presidential level. I attended a Spanberger house party in McLean last night. One thing that she WILL have to address - she hemmed and hawed on it - is whether or not she supports efforts to repeal so called "right to work" here. Terry McAuliffe was absolutely hammered on this issue four years ago, and Earle-Sears will absolutely address it.
I think Spanberger may be in a better position than McAuliffe to address this concern about the right-to-work law but certainly the earlier the better. No disrespect to McAuliffe but he's better as a Democratic Party fundraiser and operative than he is an politician.
Now that she's out of Congress and on the campaign trail primarily focused on the gubernatorial race, Spanberger will be able to address this early on.
I'm not sure if support for RTW(FL) repeal is a political liability in today's Virginia. It certainly was in the past, which is why both Mark Warner and Tim Kaine openly supported this law in their runs for Governor in 2001 and 2005. However, Virginia is now a bluer state, so I'm not sure that supporting the repeal of this law is a liability.
To my knowledge, there hasn't been a poll recently that measures how Virginia voters feel about RTW(FL) laws, but I'd be curious to see one. Any such poll, though, would have to explain to respondents what these laws actually entail, since I imagine most people out there don't actually know that.