Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LEESBURG, VIRGINIA - NOVEMBER 04: Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate, Lieutenant Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, joined by her ...

Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican nominee for Virginia governor, speaking to supporters on election night in Loudoun County on Nov. 4, 2025. She was joined on stage by her family. Earle-Sears lost ...

After a long year campaigning and on the election trail, Republican Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears was beat by Democrat Abigail Spanberger in the race for the Commonwealth's next governor.

Former U.S. Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D) will be the first-ever woman to serve as Virginia’s governor, according to the Associated Press. Even in loss, Earle-Sears made history as the ...

LEESBURG, VIRGINIA — When Winsome Earle-Sears’s campaign bus caught fire on a Virginia highway days before the election, it offered a fitting metaphor for a gubernatorial bid that never found its ...

RICHMOND, Va. — History-making Republican Winsome Earle-Sears began her tenure presiding over the Virginia Senate on Monday as the state’s first woman to serve as lieutenant governor and the first ...

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Trump publicly called the Virginia race a “must-win” for Earle-Sears, but stopped short of giving her a glowing endorsement as he had with other gubernatorial challengers in different states. Despite ...