Category: Abigail spanberger
How Spanberger managed to hit record-low approval rating in 80 days
House Democrats’ loss of 14 seats to Republicans in the 2020 election was apparently an eye-opening experience for then-Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D), who blamed the ease and effectiveness with which critics branded her party as a bunch of radical leftists.
“We need to not ever use the word ‘socialist’ or ‘socialism’ ever again,” Spanberger said on a post-action House Democratic Caucus phone call. “Because while people think it doesn’t matter, it does matter, and we lost good members because of that.”
Years after acknowledging the importance of concealing radical impulses from voters, the former undercover CIA officer who participated in the anti-Trump “resistance” after the 2016 election ran for governor of Virginia, campaigning in 2025 as an even-keeled and unifying pragmatist. The liberal media then forwarded that narrative.
‘She’s just a bot for the Democratic Party.’
It is now painfully obvious, however, that the supposed moderate who defeated former Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears (R) in November in a landslide is — as the GOP of Virginia and others had warned — not as advertised.
A damning new Washington Post-Schar School poll revealed on Monday that Virginians, realizing only too late how Spanberger really operates, have largely soured on the Democratic governor. In fact, her approval rating is so low, it set a record in Post polling.
When asked how Spanberger is handling her job as governor, 47% of respondents signaled approval, 36% signaled disapproval, and 7% expressed no opinion. The Post noted that approval rating is 13 percentage points lower than the average for Spanberger’s predecessors going back to the 1990s.
Political analyst Larry Sabato told WJLA-TV, “A drop of that margin is stunning, and it should be greatly disturbing to the governor and the governor’s staff if it’s repeated in other surveys.”
There is no shortage of clues in the poll’s cross tabs as to why the people of the Old Dominion are less than enthused about their new governor.
When asked about the supposed moderate’s views, a plurality of respondents — 45% — said they were “too liberal.” Broken down by party affiliation, 91% of Republicans, 44% of independents, and 6% of Democrats said so. Nearly 10% of Virginians who voted for Spanberger were among those who rated her as “too liberal.”
For starters, Spanberger dropped the moderate mask in her approach to immigration.
Weeks after rescinding former Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s order requiring state law enforcement agencies to cooperate more fully with federal immigration authorities, Spanberger directed state police and other state agencies to terminate any such agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Department of Homeland Security Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis grouped Spanberger with those “sanctuary politicians” who have “tried to slow ICE down and chosen to release criminals from their jails into our communities to perpetrate more crimes and create more victims.”
Virginians are already dealing with the fallout of Spanberger’s virtue-signaling.
The DHS noted on Monday that “so far in 2026, illegal aliens have allegedly committed 75% of all murders” in Fairfax County, Virginia.
The supposed moderate also committed all state agencies to rejoining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a regional cap-and-trade program covering power sector emissions that Youngkin — who completed his term with a 50% approval rating — removed Virginia from and dubbed a hidden tax on ratepayers.
While previously a critic of partisan gerrymandering schemes, Spanberger has come out in support of a proposed constitutional amendment that would all but ensure that 10 out of the state’s 11 congressional seats go to Democrats, thereby disenfranchising Republican voters in Virginia.
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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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4 radical bills + 1 executive order: Spanberger’s Virginia is already spiraling into crime and racism in just days
It’s been less than a week since Democrat Abigail Spanberger was sworn in as Virginia’s governor, and already her unhinged liberal policies are poisoning the state, says BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales.
“She’s a deranged, liberal, white woman, so she’s handling it about how you would expect,” she sneers.
As one of her first actions after being sworn in, Spanberger signed an executive order rescinding her predecessor Glenn Youngkin’s directive that required state law enforcement, including Virginia State Police and corrections, to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement on immigration enforcement.
“I’ve explained this to you multiple times,” says Sara. “They want the criminals.”
“You had Glenn Youngkin. You could have actually made some progress to not be a total hellhole, and instead, they were like, ‘Nope, nope, nope — we want the law-abiding Americans to not feel safe.”’
On top of that, just days before Spanberger’s swearing-in, Democratic delegates rushed in bills that critics argue will fuel crime and anti-white racism in Virginia.
For example, Delegate Alfonso Lopez (D) introduced a bill (HB912) that will “guarantee illegal alien children free education in Virginia.”
“Come on over. It’s all free,” retorts Sara.
Delegate Sam Rasoul (D) introduced a bill (HB1070) that aims to “prohibit the state from mentioning an accused criminal’s prior conviction to the jury during the guilt phase of the trial.”
“They won’t hold it against them that they’ve just gone on to commit crime after crime after crime after crime” scoffs Sara.
“But wait, there’s more.”
Delegate Rae Cousins (D) introduced a bill (HB863) that removes mandatory minimum prison sentences for many crimes, including rape, manslaughter, assaulting a police officer, possession and distribution of child pornography, and repeat violent felonies.
“You guys think that I’m being hyperbolic. I’m not,” Sara insists. “They want the crime and the criminals to thrive in the state of Virginia.”
But perhaps the worst bill came from Delegate Jeion A. Ward (D), who introduced a bill (HB61) that proposes giving state contracts under $100,000 almost exclusively to businesses owned by women, minorities, or veterans — effectively shutting out white men unless no one else qualifies — and even then allows the state to award the contract to a preferred business if their bid is up to 5% higher than a white male-owned bid.
“Guys, the DOJ needs to sue them like yesterday. … That is blatant discrimination,” says Sara.
“By the way, if you live in Virginia, get the hell out. [Spanberger] is raising taxes on basically everything from retail delivery — so like Amazon, Uber Eats, FedEx, UPS, guns and ammo, you name it.”
Virginia, she says, “had something good,” and then it elected a “crazy, liberal, white [woman],” and now “just like that,” it’s been “run into the ground.”
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