GOP Virginia gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears (LEFT) and Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger (RIGHT) (Getty)
After opening the trust, Spanberger did not include it in any of her annual financial disclosure reports that are mandated by Congress while serving in the House of Representatives .Nor did she include it in a "Virginia Economic Interest Statement" filed last month.
"Personal residences that do not earn income are not required to be disclosed, so Abigail did not disclose her family’s only home — as doing so would make their home address publicly available," the Spanberger campaign told Fox News Digital. "Abigail filed her disclosures in accordance with House Ethics rules, which do not require her to disclose her role as a trustee of a living trust holding only her family’s home."
However, the Earle-Sears campaign says that Spanberger's explanations of privacy and wanting to keep her family safe fall short.
Activists protest in favor of ethics reform outside of the U.S. Capitol on May 2, 2023 in Washington, D.C., amid Democrat efforts at the time to pass legislation for a judicial ethics code that would govern all federal judges.
Spanberger joined Congress representing a district in the northern part of Virginia in 2018, and was reelected in two subsequent election cycles — 2020 and 2022. Spanberger did not seek reelection in 2024, but is now running to replace Youngkin after he is term-limited later this year.
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Earle-Sears was elected lieutenant governor in 2021, cementing herself in the history books as the first woman of color elected to statewide office in Virginia.
Both candidates have been tapped by their respective parties to be their candidate in the upcoming November general election, according to local media reports. Cook-political report currently labels the race as a toss-up.
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