Virginia Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears dismissed the idea of an uphill battle in this year’s gubernatorial election against Democrat candidate Abigail Spanberger, telling the Washington Examiner that Virginians like the direction of the current administration.

Earle-Sears hopes to replace Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who is term-limited, in the governor’s mansion after November’s election.

“Polls are telling us and people are telling us that they want what we’re doing to continue. And this is where I believe my opponent, Abigail Spanberger, is going to get tripped up because the people like what we’ve done,” Earle-Sears told the Examiner. 

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