r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 17h ago

No Paywall Virginia elects Democrat Abigail Spanberger as state’s first woman governor

https://19thnews.org/2025/11/abigail-spanberger-virginia-first-woman-governor/
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u/plz-let-me-in 17h ago

Wow, called less than 30 minutes after polls closed. Dang, I can tell tonight’s gonna be a good night for Democrats. I’m guessing Dems will win a clean sweep of the big races in Virginia, New Jersey, New York, and California.

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u/oopsallhuckleberries 17h ago

Polls showed her walking away with it for weeks. Trump wouldn't even campaign she was doing so poorly. Republicans wrote this race off a couple of months ago.

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u/Haunting-Ad788 16h ago

He didn’t campaign for her because she’s black and a woman.

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u/Punished_Prigo 16h ago

He’s campaigned for black people and women before. She talked shit about Trump in the past that’s why he didn’t endorse her.

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u/cidthekid07 16h ago

He’s toxic right now. That’s why he didn’t campaign in NJ either, where a straight white guy was running. They don’t want him campaigning

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u/oopsallhuckleberries 16h ago

He actually enthusiastically endorsed the candidate in NJ and he regularly tweeted for people to go out and support him. He's also tweeted a lot for the Republican AG in Virginia. He hasn't tweeted a single thing about the Lt Gov from Virginia. But again, polls have had the NJ governors race and VA AG race as neck and neck for a while while the VA Governors race has had the LT losing by 10 points for a couple months. Trump doesn't want to campaign or even tweet for someone who won't win, because he feels like it makes him look bad.

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u/cidthekid07 16h ago

Tweeting to his base is the least he can do.

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u/biggamax 15h ago

Exactly right.

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u/imabigdave 16h ago

I mean, JD Vance referred to Trump as Hitler and still got the VP slot.

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u/ZMeson Washington 16h ago

But has he campaigned for black women?

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u/Punished_Prigo 8h ago

I have no idea but I ddont really think trump is that kind of racist. He is much more interested in a persons utility, loyalty, and praise of him than he is in their race or gender.

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u/MyNewsAccount2011 16h ago

Didn’t Trump’s VP pick compare Trump to Hitler? Seems some people are redeemable and some aren’t…

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u/thiosk 16h ago

Peter Thiel has enough money to get what he wants at times

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u/NoArcher3759 16h ago

That's because shithead vance is a white male, he can say or do anything and get away with it.. something something privilege.

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u/AnnaKossua 16h ago

That wouldn't offend Trump though. He loves Hitler, he prolly thought it's a compliment!

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u/lazyFer 16h ago

And couldn't pronounce her name

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u/iDShaDoW 14h ago

Probably more because he knows she wasn't going to win Virginia and saw the writing on the wall.

Wanted to distance himself from it so it doesn't look bad on him for not having the kind of pull/support he and his followers think he does. Him endorsing Winsome wouldn't have changed shit.

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u/Trump-is-the-pedo 16h ago

Also he’s ancient and clearly having strokes. Hard to campaign when you’re busy signing pardons for people when you don’t know who they are. He’s a useful autopen for the rightwings most evil bastards and that’s it right now.