The PBS host said:
“To the races tomorrow — we have Virginia. Abigail Spanberger running as a moderate in a purple state. She is likely expected to win. Um, Virginia, New Jersey with Mikie Sherrill, also a moderate Democrat, is more of a toss-up. But we had President Obama campaigning for both of them recently over the past few days. Then you have candidates like the social Democrat, far-left progressive Zoran Mamdani here in New York City, expected to win as well.
If we see all three win — if we see Spanberger in Virginia, Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey, and Mamdani here in New York City — what does that say about the direction that the Democratic Party is headed in and should be headed in?”
The host said Spanberger, Sherrill, and Mamdani are all expected to win — because in the media’s version of reality, Democrats are always the winners, and victory is just assumed. Even the question — “What does that say about the direction that the Democratic Party is headed in and should be headed in?” — reveals the bias. It treats the Democratic Party’s internal direction as the story that matters, instead of reporting on what these Democrats actually stand for or plan to do.
The guest went even further, describing Spanberger as having “centrist qualities” and labeling New Jersey’s Mikie Sherrill — a former Navy pilot — a “moderate Democrat.” In today’s media lexicon, “centrist” simply means a Democrat with establishment credentials — whether it’s a uniform or a CIA résumé. Because nothing says “middle of the road” like a former CIA operative who voted with Biden over 90 percent of the time — and refuses to work with the president on jobs.
Spanberger’s record tells a very different story. She has voted in line with President Biden more than 90% of the time, supported continued Ukraine war funding, backed massive federal spending bills, and opposed stronger border-security enforcement. She’s called it “horrifying” that crossing the border illegally is considered a criminal act and vowed that one of her first acts as governor would be to rescind Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order requiring Virginia law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration crackdowns — calling the policy a waste of resources that “undermines community trust.”
Spanberger supports turning Virginia into a sanctuary state, backs amnesty for anyone who makes it into the United States, and has said she won’t work with President Trump — even to create jobs for Virginians. She has also supported allowing boys in girls’ locker rooms and has stood by Virginia Democrat Jay Jones, even after he was exposed for sending violent text messages in 2022 — including one saying Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert “gets two bullets to the head” and another wishing death on his children. Spanberger refused to withdraw her support and continued to campaign alongside him.
That loyalty speaks volumes. Jones’s messages were so extreme that even members of his own party called them “beyond disqualifying.” Yet Spanberger still refused to distance herself — proving that, for her, party unity matters more than principle. That’s not moderate or centrist. It’s partisan loyalty.
The PBS guest said:
“At the same time, I expect, again, we rate the New Jersey race with Mikie Sherrill there as lean Democrat. We rate the Virginia race as likely Democrat. National Democrats are going to want to point to people like Sherrill and Spanberger — remember, they were elected in the 2018 midterms, the first backlash to President Trump that we saw in his first term at the ballot box. These are both women. They were part of that cohort of national security Democrats that were elected — Spanberger is a former CIA operative, and Sherrill is a former Navy fighter pilot. So they’re going to point toward them that have these more centrist qualities.”
But an open-borders candidate like Spanberger can hardly be called strong on national security. You can’t champion sanctuary policies, amnesty, and defying federal immigration enforcement — then claim to represent the “national security” wing of the party.
And while PBS praised two White women running as Democrats as examples of strength and leadership, they ignored a Black woman in Virginia who also served in the military — and who is a true national security candidate: Winsome Earle-Sears, a U.S. Marine veteran and Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. It’s no surprise they left her out. She represents everything the media claims to admire — but only when it comes with a “D” next to the name.
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Republican Winsome Earle-Sears has been breaking barriers her entire career. She was first elected in 2002 to a majority-Black House of Delegates district — the first Republican to do so in Virginia since 1865. Today, she is Virginia’s first female Lieutenant Governor, the first Black female elected statewide, the first naturalized female elected statewide, and the first female veteran to hold statewide office.
“Born in Jamaica, made in America. Marine, fighter, and now candidate for governor — fighting for all Virginians.” https://winsomeforgovernor.com
Winsome Earle-Sears has a chance to become the first Black female governor of Virginia — and prove that real leadership doesn’t need media approval to make history.