Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears was the subject of a sign condemned by Virginia leaders as offensive and inappropriate. (Winsome Earle-Sears Campaign)
"Winsome is so much bigger than this idiocy," Youngkin added.
Attorney General Jason Miyares joined in, writing on X: "This is wrong. [Winsome Earle-Sears] — and Virginia — deserve better."
Virginia state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, who is also the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, denounced the poster, saying it evokes the "pain of racism, segregation and Jim Crow-era ugliness."
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks during the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Policy Conference at the Washington Hilton on June 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Sen. Minority Leader Ryan McDougle took to X to write, "The tolerant left strikes again."
In an X post, Sen. Schuyler Van Valkenburg wrote: "Two wrongs don’t make a right. Been teaching my kids – and students – that for years. In the age of Trump it’s easy to get in the gutter. We should insist on betting the better angels of our nature."
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Del. Mike Cherry, R-Chesterfield, said on X: "Wow. Sad."
Earle-Sears' opponent, former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., also condemned the sign, calling it "racist, abhorrent and unacceptable," but Earle-Sears felt that her response should have been stronger.
"A very weak response from a very weak person who we know cannot lead Virginia as governor," Earle-Sears asserted. "She's finally come out of hiding when she should have a long time ago come out and defended so many things that are so wrong, and she's been absent."
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