November 5, 2025
Virginia Just Made History — But the GOP Is Left Reeling
Abigail Spanberger Wins Virginia’s Governorship and Becomes the First Woman in 400 Years to Hold the Office, Leaving the Republican Party Scrambling In a quietly seismic moment for American politics, the voters of Virginia have handed the keys to the governor’s mansion to Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA case officer and U.S. congresswoman, who will become the first woman ever elected governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. That alone would be historic. But the implications run deeper: she defeated Winsome Earle‑Sears, the state’s lieutenant governor and a rising figure in Republican circles, thereby flipping the governorship after a four-year GOP











