Virginia Lt. Gov. Earle-Sears concedes, says she’s ‘not going anywhere’

LEESBURG, Va. – Winsome Earle-Sears of Virginia informed the group at her election celebration in Loudoun County that she is “not going anyplace” after a defeat by Abigail Spanberger, including that she hopes the governor-elect will govern just like the average she has repeatedly promised she can be on the marketing campaign path.

“I believe I study extra from a loss than I ever discovered from a win,” Earle-Sears mentioned.

“I do not suppose we got here up quick – I believe we tried actually laborious – so many had ignored me for thus lengthy, and it is superb to see. And we simply saved plugging and plugging.”

Earle-Sears mentioned she known as Spanberger, however Spanberger didn’t reply. She mentioned she wished her nicely and that she stays open to volunteering to assist the Spanberger administration obtain all of the targets that may make Virginia profitable.

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Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears greets supporters on election evening in Leesburg, Virginia. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)

“I requested her to please consider all Virginians — that she is going to characterize all of us and never simply a few of us,” she mentioned.

“I hope Abigail sees college alternative because the alternatives for our youngsters to excel – it might probably’t simply be one path. How dare you stand within the doorway of a mother or father who says I would like one thing totally different for my youngster,” she mentioned.

Earle-Sears added that she was working a race based mostly on “basic concepts” comparable to repealing automobile taxes, defending kids and their schooling, and increasing the economic system.

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“I do not take into account this a loss as a result of… I am a Christian first and a Republican second and that is the way it ought to all the time be – no political celebration has ever given their life for me,” she mentioned.

“I am not going anyplace — and neither are you,” she mentioned, including that Virginia just isn’t a radical left state and she or he plans to maintain it that manner.

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“We have to pray for Abigail, we have to pray for our authorities.”

“I am probably not alleged to be right here to consider it. I imply, I am an immigrant from one other nation, and but you all gave me the chance to do that,” she mentioned.

Commenting to Fox Information Digital, Earle-Sears spokeswoman Peyton Vogel mentioned she is “extremely proud” of the outgoing lieutenant governor’s marketing campaign, and that Virginia nonetheless made historical past by electing its first feminine governor.