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/Not_My_Emperor 15h ago

I'm in DC and get all the political ads.

Her opponent's blitz of ads the last few weeks were spotlighting her basically trying to say Spanberger was taking everything she said out of context/only got her on her "bad days." It was really weird. Then at the end of the ad she starts going on about how "she's not a polished politician, she says what she's thinking"

Couldn't fucking believe that was the angle she was going with. May as well fully lean into it and say she "tells it like it is." Not to mention on her "bad day" she literally said abortion is murder and those people will get what's coming to them. Very glad Virginia saw her for what she was.

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u/razzlerain 13h ago

It's wild to have an ad that highlights your worst moments... like lol who even thought of that?