How Spanberger managed to hit record-low approval rating in 80 days
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Although consistent on the issue of abortion — she routinely voted in Congress to deprive the unborn of protections and to advance abortion ideology — her continued activism as governor may read as “too liberal” for some residents.
In February, for instance, she signed a partisan constitutional amendment that, if approved by voters later this year, would codify the “right to reproductive freedom, including the ability to make and carry out decisions relating to one’s own prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, abortion care, miscarriage management, and fertility care.”
In addition to taking an extreme approach to so-called reproductive rights, Spanberger is expected to help her fellow Virginia Democrats in waging war on the Second Amendment. She did, after all, vow not to veto gun-grab laws as Youngkin had and express support for a ban on sales of so-called assault-style weapons.
Among the various gun-control bills awaiting her signature are bills that would:
- Ban gun possession within 100 feet of locations used for election-related activities;
- Require a “handgun shooting” course as opposed to an NRA-affiliated safety course;
- Create a Class 1 misdemeanor for anyone who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers a so-called assault firearm or magazines that hold over 15 rounds;
- Prohibit the carrying of loaded “assault firearms” in public spaces;
- Bar anyone convicted of a misdemeanor “hate crime” assault from possessing or carrying any firearm; and
- Prohibit Americans younger than 21 from buying a handgun or “assault firearm.”
Spanberger faces an April 13 deadline to ratify these and other gun control bills.
Gregory Roddy, a self-identified independent voter from Fairfax County, told the Post that while always skeptical of Spanberger’s presentation as a bipartisan candidate, it was clear once she was elected that “she’s just a bot for the Democratic Party.”
Mason Necci, another independent voter, this time from rural Culpeper County, suggested that Spanberger is attempting “to make herself into a Democratic icon.”
“Virginia is already regretting electing a governor who stands for illegal immigrants over her constituents,” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) wrote. “Spanberger’s alarming disapproval rating is telling. And she’s been in office a mere three months.”
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