Republican Virginia gubernatorial nominee Winsome Earle-Sears said Friday on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” that her Democratic opponent Abigail Spanberger is not the “juggernaut” that her party “built her as.”
Spanberger and Earle-Sears faced off Thursday in their only debate. Discussing Spanberger’s repeated failure to answer key questions, including one about allowing biological males in female restrooms, Fox’s Laura Ingraham asked what Earle-Sears thought happened to the Democratic nominee. (RELATED: More Than 350,000 Virginians Voted Before They Learned Jay Jones Is A Psychopath)
“I was watching a woman who knew what the right answer was, and it’s that men, boys should never be nude in girls’ locker rooms. They should never be in women’s sports. By the way, we must protect our girls, and she couldn’t make that leap — apparently it was a leap for her,” Earle-Sears said. “It’s very straightforward, and I watched her twist herself, and it was — I watched her actually fall apart on the debate stage last night.”
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“The Democrats had billed her as this juggernaut, as this woman who could not be taken down or whatever it was. But the very simple thing is what fell giants and that I [had] see[n] last night that that’s what fell her,” Earle-Sears added. “A very simple question on should girls be forced to undress in locker rooms. She’s not gonna do that when she goes to the gym, and I asked her, ‘What about if it were your daughter, and she came home crying? What would you say then?’ Crickets.”
Throughout her campaign, Spanberger has remained vague on where she stands regarding school bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports policies.
During the heated debate Thursday evening, Spanberger and Earle-Sears were pressed on transgender issues and locker room policies. While the GOP nominee reiterated her stance against allowing biological males in female locker rooms, she directly asked Spanberger if she would “change in a gym where men are nude in the locker rooms.”
Spanberger also sidestepped when moderators asked whether she would rescind Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive directive ensuring bathrooms, locker rooms and other intimate spaces remain separated by sex assigned at birth.
At the start of the debate, Spanberger also failed to answer repeated questions about whether she would continue to endorse Virginia Democratic Attorney General candidate Jay Jones after the release of his text messages expressing a desire to kill a Republican opponent and his family.
The race between Spanberger and Earle-Sears has tightened in recent months, with October polls conducted by ABC7 News showing Spanberger at 49.2% support, Earle-Sears at 45.2% and 5.6% undecided. In comparison, the outlet’s September poll had Spanberger at 50.3%, Earle-Sears at 43.2% and 6.6% undecided.
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