State Candidate Comparison 2025 #2

State Candidate Comparison 2025 #2

TALE OF THE TAPE: Virginia Republicans' Common-Sense Conservative ticket vs. Virginia
Democrats' Radical Left Progressive ticket
 

With primaries over, here's the choice that faces Virginians on November 4.
 

GOVERNOR: Winsome Sears vs. Abigail Spanberger
Winsome Sears:
✅Supports lower taxes & less regulation, including ending the hated car tax & the tax on tips
✅Committed to working with federal authorities to enforce immigration law & deport criminal
illegal aliens
✅Opposes men in women's sports and committed to keeping men out of women's restrooms and
locker rooms
 

Abigail Spanberger:
❌Wants to raise taxes on working families to fund left-wing special interests - voted for $7 trillion
in Hlationary spending
❌Voted for Open Borders in Congress & supports "sanctuary" policies - would actively work to
undermine immigration enforcement
❌Supports allowing men to invade women's sports and refuses to stand up to gender activists to
protect female-only spaces
 

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR: John Reid vs. Ghazala Hashmi
John Reid:
✅Common-sense conservative with record of defending Virginia values
✅Supports police & law enforcement
✅Opposes far-left ideology in K-12 classrooms
 

Ghazala Hashmi:
❌Far-left radical who stood with pro-Hamas protestors
❌Openly called to remove resource officers from Virginia schools
❌Supports anti-American Critical Race Theory and radical gender ideology in schools
 

ATTORNEY GENERAL: Jason Miyares vs. Jay Jones
Jason Miyares:
✅Record of reducing crime in Virginia & working with local law enforcement to keep our streets
safe
✅Combatted fentanyl & opioid overdoses through initiatives like "One Pill Can Kill"
✅Committed to working with federal law enforcement & holding soft-on-crime local prosecutors
accountable
 

Jay Jones:
❌"Defund the Police" extremist
❌Would release drug dealers & violent criminals back on our streets
❌Would prevent enforcement of immigration law & turn Virginia into a sanctuary jurisdiction