{"id":149840,"date":"2025-07-23T20:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=149840"},"modified":"2025-07-23T20:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:01:19","slug":"virginia-republicans-sound-alarm-over-governors-race-its-a-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=149840","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Virginia Republicans sound alarm over governor\u2019s race: \u2018It\u2019s a disaster\u2019&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5413919-earle-sears-campaign-struggles-continue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a>: &#8220;Virginia Republicans are raising alarm bells about Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears\u2019s (R) campaign in the state\u2019s closely watched gubernatorial race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Last week, news broke that Earle-Sears\u2019s campaign manager Will Archer was removed from his post but would remain on her campaign in a different capacity. The development\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5404585-spanberger-leads-earle-sears-virginia-governor-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">came as polls show<\/a>\u00a0Democratic candidate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/abigail-spanberger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abigail Spanberger\u00a0<\/a>in the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Now, some Republicans are warning that further shake-ups are needed if they want to win in what is seen as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5384833-virginia-off-year-elections-bellwether-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the most significant bellwether this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cFrom my vantage point and the people we\u2019re talking to, it\u2019s a disaster,\u201d said one Virginia Republican operative who spoke on the condition of anonymity.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: &#8220;Virginia Republicans are raising alarm bells about Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears\u2019s (R) campaign in the state\u2019s closely watched gubernatorial race. Last week, news broke that Earle-Sears\u2019s campaign manager Will Archer was removed from his post but would remain on her campaign in a different capacity. The development\u00a0came as polls show\u00a0Democratic candidate\u00a0Abigail Spanberger\u00a0in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149841,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149840\/revisions\/149841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}