Virginia Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears Files For Gubernatorial Run To Succeed Youngkin
The Virginia Department of Elections on Wednesday accepted the state’s Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears’s filings to run for governor in the 2025 election, making her the first Republican candidate to join the race, according to…
The Virginia Department of Elections on Wednesday accepted the state’s Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears’s filings to run for governor in the 2025 election, making her the first Republican candidate to join the race, according to Nexstar’s Richmond affiliate WRIC.
Sears and her team said that she would be making a “special announcement” on Thursday, the day after her paperwork was reportedly approved, according to WRIC. Sears is the first Republican to join the race to succeed Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin after Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia launched her own gubernatorial campaign in November of 2023.
Sears and Youngkin made headlines in 2021 when they flipped the governor and lieutenant governor’s seats in the battleground state just a year after President Joe Biden defeated former President Donald Trump in the state presidential election.