Virginia Delegate Kim Taylor and her husband Butch's $600 bid at this local event scored them a wooden U.S. flag crafted by Floyd Hemesath of Disputanta, Va. (Kristi K. Higgins/Progress-Index via IMAGN)
"She will continue to condemn any attempt to make light of or justify political violence of any kind," the spokesperson said.
When asked about Spanberger reciting the "rage" phrase again at a recent campaign event outside Richmond, the campaign official said "context" is important and that it was meant to illustrate the need to "write postcards and knock doors."
Taylor made waves two elections ago when she unseated now-state Sen. Laschresce Aird, D-Petersburg, in what is one of the most Democratic-majority cities per capita in the commonwealth.
Taylor defeated Aird by about 500 votes in 2021 and narrowly won re-election in 2023 by about 50 votes.
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Her 2025 opponent is Kimberly Pope Adams, who ran against her in the 2023 nail-biter. In comments to the Virginia Independent, Pope Adams criticized the Trump administration and cuts to social services in Surry and Prince George, which are more rural than the city of Petersburg.
Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican nominee for governor, also responded to Spanberger’s original remarks by invoking Virginia’s longtime tourism slogan, "Virginia is for Lovers," contrasting it with "rage."
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