Can Abigail Spanberger really be a moderate if she continues to run for governor while supporting Jay Jones for attorney general, a man who’s “joked” about wishing death on his opponent’s children?
Virginia voters are smart enough to know the answer to this question is a resounding no, yet Spanberger keeps claiming to be a moderate anyway.
“Too many politicians talk when they should listen, and divide instead of unite,” she said in her first TV ad. But few politicians, including Democrats, have been as partisan and divisive as Spanberger. The Heritage Action for America scorecard has given Spanberger half the rating of the average House Democrat, marking her as one of the most progressive Democrats in Congress and noting she has reached across the aisle far less than her Democrat colleagues.
Rather than voting to reflect voters’ interests, Spanberger has consistently voted in line with progressive activists. Nowhere do we see this more than with the issue of women’s safety, on which most Americans are united in their belief that women and girls need single-sex spaces to preserve safety, fairness, and dignity. Spanberger voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023, which would have barred biological males from girls’ sports, preserved scholarships for women and girls, and ensured fair and safe competition for female athletes. This betrayal earned Spanberger a failing grade on Independent Women’s Voice’s Riley Gaines “Stand with Women Scorecard.”
The consequences of these policies are devastatingly real. Consider the sexual assaults that occurred in Loudoun County in 2021. Those crimes involved a 15-year-old trans-identifying boy who exploited the school’s gender-neutral bathroom rules and entered a girls’ bathroom where he sexually assaulted a ninth-grade girl. School officials silenced the victim and her family, forbidding them from discussing it, while failing to follow Title IX protocols. The boy was then transferred to another school in the county, without warning staff, where he assaulted another girl a few months later.
This is the outcome Abigail Spanberger voted for.
Of course, despite her virtue signaling about feminism, Spanberger stayed silent about girls being assaulted in public schools and did nothing when school officials covered for the man who violated them.
The fact that Spanberger voted against the bipartisan Laken Riley Act in 2024 additionally shows that she would rather bend the knee to radical ideology than protect women. Named for the Georgia nursing student raped and murdered by an undocumented Venezuelan with a criminal history, the law empowers authorities to remove threats like the MS-13 gang leader terrorizing Virginia streets. By opposing it—unlike 37 of her Democratic colleagues—Spanberger chose progressive posturing over safety, leaving communities vulnerable to the very dangers the bill sought to address.
Spanberger is defending not only Jay Jones’ violent rhetoric; she is defending violence against women and girls in the name of an ideology voters overwhelmingly rejected in the 2024 election, and per all public opinion polling across the country.
Under Governor Glenn Youngkin, Virginia has empowered parents, restored sanity to schools, and bolstered safety. Spanberger wants to reverse it all, returning to an extremist agenda for the state. Virginians deserve better than a governor who endangers girls and women while defending illegal gangsters and scandal-plagued allies. Her moderate mask is off—voters can see the truth.