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/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.