VA-GOV: New campaign finance numbers show a significant lead for Spanberger [View all]
Campaign finance numbers are revealing the shape of Virginia politics heading into this year's election for governor. The latest disclosures show Democrat Abigail Spanberger has more than twice as much cash on hand heading into the fall election season.
When a racist sign appeared at an Arlington County School Board meeting, Republicans were hopeful this might be their moment to break through. Their candidate for governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, announced that the billionaire co-founder of Black Entertainment Television had donated half a million dollars to her campaign for governor. Now, the latest campaign finance numbers show Republicans are struggling.
"The Sears campaign did say that with this episode about this lady's sign in Arlington and the backlash over that, that that's helped them," says J. Miles Coleman at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "But the proof is really in the pudding here."
The pudding is that Democrat Abigail Spanberger raised almost three times as much money and has more than twice as much cash on hand.
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