Abigail Spanberger is from Virginia. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia and a master's degree in business administration from Purdue and GISMA. Abigail and her husband, Adam, have three daughters together.

Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger is running for governor in 2025 ...

Before taking public office, Abigail worked as a law enforcement officer at the U.S. Postal Service, where she tracked narcotics traffickers and worked on money laundering cases. She also worked as a case officer at the CIA, handling counterterrorism and nuclear proliferation cases.

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Abigail served three terms as a US House Representative from 2019 to 2025, representing Virginia's District 7. 

Supports expanding access to the Child Care Subsidy Program and high-quality child care options, and promoting professional development for child care providers.

Wants to prevent benefit cliffs to support economic mobility for families.

Wants to prevent benefit cliffs so families can increase income without losing support.

Plans to address trade concerns, increase capital access, and expand market opportunities for farmers.

Plans to address trade concerns, expand market opportunities, and increase capital access for farmers.

Supports raising Virginia’s minimum wage to $15 per hour, collective bargaining, and paid sick leave.

- Supports expanding access to the Child Care Subsidy Program and high-quality child care options, and promoting professional development for child care providers.
- Wants to prevent benefit cliffs so families can increase income without losing support.
- Plans to address trade concerns, expand market opportunities, and increase capital access for farmers.
- Supports raising Virginia’s minimum wage to $15 per hour, collective bargaining, and paid sick leave.

Economy

Supports flexible local housing solutions, regional planning, and increased funding for affordable housing.

Supports flexible local housing solutions, regional planning, and increased funding for affordable housing, especially for first-time buyers and middle-class families.

Supports strengthening Virginia’s fair housing protections and prioritizing the Virginia Fair Housing Office to enforce antidiscrimination laws and health & safety standards.

Supports strengthening fair housing protections and prioritizing enforcement of antidiscrimination laws and health & safety standards.

Supports reducing regulations that slow down housing construction, streamlining reviews and permitting for redevelopment, and identifying policies increasing housing production costs.

Supports reducing regulations that slow housing construction and streamlining reviews to lower costs.

- Supports flexible local housing solutions, regional planning, and increased funding for affordable housing, especially for first-time buyers and middle-class families.
- Supports strengthening fair housing protections and prioritizing enforcement of antidiscrimination laws and health & safety standards.
- Supports reducing regulations that slow housing construction and streamlining reviews to lower costs.

Housing & Urban Development

Plans to lower prescription drug costs by directing the implementation of a single, Virginia-run pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) for Medicaid and banning practices that steer patients to affiliated pharmacies.

Plans to lower prescription drug costs by creating a single, Virginia-run pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) for Medicaid and banning practices that lead patients to partner pharmacies.

Supports access to contraception, abortion, and in vitro fertilization (IVF).

Believes healthcare providers should direct care, not insurance companies, and plans to limit prior authorization and step therapy processes to ensure Virginians receive effective treatments.

Supports giving healthcare providers more control over care and limiting insurance prior authorizations or step therapy requirements.

Supports improving access to affordable healthcare, especially in rural areas, by investing in critical care fields, protecting safety net providers, ensuring services for people with disabilities, and implementing telehealth recommendations to reduce barriers.

Supports improving access to affordable healthcare in rural areas, protecting safety-net providers, and expanding telehealth.

Supports improving hospital price transparency by creating a statewide comparison tool and enforcing laws against predatory billing practices.

Supports improving hospital price transparency by creating a statewide comparison tool and enforcing laws against predatory billing practices and scammers.

Supports policies to reduce maternal mortality rates and address disparities for Black and Hispanic mothers.

Supports policies to reduce maternal mortality rates and increase access to healthcare for children.

- Plans to lower prescription drug costs by creating a single, Virginia-run pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) for Medicaid and banning practices that lead patients to partner pharmacies.
- Supports access to contraception, abortion, and in vitro fertilization (IVF).
- Supports giving healthcare providers more control over care and limiting insurance prior authorizations or step therapy requirements.
- Supports improving access to affordable healthcare in rural areas, protecting safety-net providers, and expanding telehealth.
- Supports improving hospital price transparency by creating a statewide comparison tool and enforcing laws against predatory billing practices and scammers.
- Supports policies to reduce maternal mortality rates and increase access to healthcare for children.

Healthcare

Supports ensuring data centers contribute fairly to energy costs, advocating for clean energy generation, and promoting Virginia's energy independence through low-cost, local electricity sources like offshore wind and solar projects.

Supports ensuring data centers contribute fairly to energy costs and promoting energy independence through low-cost, local electricity sources like offshore wind and solar projects.

Supports reducing consumer energy costs and job expansion in Virginia by maximizing energy efficiency measures like home weatherization and small business programs.

Supports reducing energy costs through energy efficiency programs, such as energy storage, demand response, and improved use of surplus energy.

Plans to focus on increasing energy efficiency, protecting Virginia’s coastline from offshore drilling, and safeguarding Virginia’s natural resources for future generations.

Supports protecting Virginia’s coastline and natural resources for the future.

- Supports ensuring data centers contribute fairly to energy costs and promoting energy independence through low-cost, local electricity sources like offshore wind and solar projects.
- Supports reducing energy costs through energy efficiency programs, such as energy storage, demand response, and improved use of surplus energy.
- Supports protecting Virginia’s coastline and natural resources for the future.

Energy & the Environment

Spanberger Backs Justice in Policing Act, Reaffirms Commitment to Addressing Systemic Racism & Racial Injustice

Earle-Sears, Spanberger split on cannabis as Youngkin vetoes retail sales

Supports strengthening Virginia’s safe storage laws to prevent children and individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others from accessing firearms.

Supports safe storage laws to prevent unauthorized firearm access.

Supports banning the manufacturing, sale, and transfer of assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines to reduce mass shootings.

Supports banning assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines to reduce mass shootings.

Supports providing training, tools, and resources for law enforcement to ensure community safety.

Believes in collaborating with various community sectors to provide treatment and recovery services for substance use disorders and supports investing in tools and training for local law enforcement to combat fentanyl.

Believes in collaborating with community organizations to provide treatment and recovery services for substance use disorders and supports investing in tools and training for local law enforcement to combat fentanyl.

Supports the Justice in Policing Act, which would ban chokeholds, require police body cameras, and create a national registry for police misconduct.

As US representative, supported the Justice in Policing Act, which aims to address systemic racism and includes a ban on chokeholds, requires police body cameras, and creates a national registry for police misconduct.

Supports a regulated retail market for cannabis.

- Supports safe storage laws to prevent unauthorized firearm access.
- Supports banning assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines to reduce mass shootings.
- Supports providing training, tools, and resources for law enforcement to ensure community safety.
- Believes in collaborating with community organizations to provide treatment and recovery services for substance use disorders and supports investing in tools and training for local law enforcement to combat fentanyl.
- As US representative, supported the Justice in Policing Act, which aims to address systemic racism and includes a ban on chokeholds, requires police body cameras, and creates a national registry for police misconduct.
- Supports a regulated retail market for cannabis.

Public Safety

Spanberger vows to scrap Youngkin’s immigration order if elected governor

Opposes Virginia's law enforcement assisting with federal immigration crackdowns, arguing it wastes local resources and undermines community trust.

Opposes Virginia's law enforcement assisting with federal immigration orders, arguing it wastes local resources and undermines community trust.

- Opposes Virginia's law enforcement assisting with federal immigration orders, arguing it wastes local resources and undermines community trust.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Plans to address the state teacher shortage by boosting recruitment and mentorship, and raising teacher pay.

Plans to ensure schools have the necessary resources to meet learning standards and uphold "academic excellence and rigor."

Opposes policies that take away funding from schools and plans to ensure they have the necessary resources to meet learning standards.

Opposes policies that create fear among teachers, such as the governor's tip line for reporting "inherently divisive practices" in schools.

Plans to invest in Virginia’s colleges, universities, community colleges, and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

- Plans to address the state teacher shortage by boosting recruitment and mentorship, and raising teacher pay.
- Opposes policies that take away funding from schools and plans to ensure they have the necessary resources to meet learning standards.
- Opposes policies that create fear among teachers, such as the governor's tip line for reporting "inherently divisive practices" in schools.
- Plans to invest in Virginia’s colleges, universities, community colleges, and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

Education

Supports the General Assembly’s effort to add a restoration of voting rights amendment to the Virginia Constitution.

Supports adding a restoration of voting rights amendment to the Virginia Constitution.

- Supports adding a restoration of voting rights amendment to the Virginia Constitution.

Voting & Elections

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- Supports safe storage laws to prevent unauthorized firearm access.
- Supports banning assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines to reduce mass shootings.
- Supports providing training, tools, and resources for law enforcement to ensure community safety.
- Believes in collaborating with community organizations to provide treatment and recovery services for substance use disorders and supports investing in tools and training for local law enforcement to combat fentanyl.
- As US representative, supported the Justice in Policing Act, which aims to address systemic racism and includes a ban on chokeholds, requires police body cameras, and creates a national registry for police misconduct.

- Supports safe storage laws to prevent unauthorized firearm access.
- Supports banning assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines to reduce mass shootings.

- Supports flexible local housing solutions, regional planning, and increased funding for affordable housing.
- Supports strengthening fair housing protections and prioritizing enforcement of antidiscrimination laws and health & safety standards.
- Supports reducing regulations that slow housing construction and streamlining reviews to lower costs.
- Supports direct investment in housing for first-time buyers and middle-class families.

- Supports ensuring data centers contribute fairly to energy costs and promoting energy independence through low-cost, local electricity sources like offshore wind and solar projects.
- Supports reducing energy costs through energy efficiency programs, such as energy storage, demand response, and improved utilization of surplus energy.
- Supports protecting Virginia’s coastline and natural resources for the future.

- Supports expanding access to the Child Care Subsidy Program and high-quality child care options, and promoting professional development for child care providers.
- Wants to prevent benefit cliffs so families can increase income without losing support.
- Plans to address trade concerns, expand market opportunities, and increase capital access for farmers.

- Supports ensuring data centers contribute fairly to energy costs and promoting energy independence through low-cost, local electricity sources like offshore wind and solar projects.
- Supports reducing consumer energy costs and bringing jobs to Virginia by building energy efficiency projects.
- Supports protecting Virginia’s coastline and natural resources for the future.

- Supports flexible local housing solutions, regional planning, and increased funding for affordable housing.
- Supports strengthening fair housing protections and prioritizing enforcement of antidiscrimination laws and health & safety standards.
- Wants to address homelessness and evictions by re-establishing an Interagency Council on Homelessness and Housing.
- Supports reducing regulations that slow housing construction and streamlining reviews to lower costs.
- Supports direct investment in housing for first-time buyers and middle-class families.

- Supports ensuring data centers contribute fairly to energy costs and promoting energy independence through low-cost, local electricity sources like offshore wind and solar projects.
- Supports reducing consumer energy costs and bringing jobs to Virginia by building energy efficiency projects.
- Supports energy storage solutions, demand response programs, and better use of surplus energy.
- Supports outreach for Virginia’s Percentage of Income Payment program to help low-income households pay their energy bills.
- Supports protecting Virginia’s coastline and natural resources for the future.

- Supports ensuring data centers contribute fairly to energy costs and promoting energy independence through low-cost, local electricity sources like offshore wind and solar projects.
- Supports creating jobs and lowering energy bills through energy efficiency projects.
- Supports energy storage solutions, demand response programs, and better use of surplus energy.
- Supports regulatory reforms to speed up new energy projects, lower costs, and improve timelines.
- Supports outreach for Virginia’s Percentage of Income Payment program to help low-income households pay their energy bills.
- Supports protecting Virginia’s coastline and natural resources for the future.

- Supports providing cities and counties with flexibility in housing development and creating regional affordable housing programs.
- Supports strengthening fair housing protections and prioritizing enforcement of antidiscrimination laws and health & safety standards.
- Wants to address homelessness and evictions by re-establishing an Interagency Council on Homelessness and Housing.
- Supports preserving and protecting affordable housing, increasing housing supply, and funding the Virginia Housing Trust Fund.
- Supports reducing regulations that slow housing construction and streamlining reviews to lower costs.
- Supports direct investment in housing for first-time buyers and middle-class families.

- Supports expanding access to the Child Care Subsidy Program and improving communication for families on the program or waitlist.
- Supports parents having access to high-quality child care and encouraging providers to join Virginia’s Quality Birth to Five (VQB5) program.
- Supports improving early child care and motivating workers by offering free dual enrollment courses, bonuses for educators in challenging regions, and clear professional development standards.
- Wants to prevent benefit cliffs so families can increase income without losing support.
- Plans to address trade concerns, expand market opportunities, and increase capital access for farmers.

- Supports giving cities and counties flexibility to build more housing and create local affordable housing programs.
- Supports strengthening fair housing protections and prioritizing enforcement of antidiscrimination laws and health & safety standards.
- Wants to address homelessness and evictions by re-establishing an Interagency Council on Homelessness and Housing.
- Supports protecting existing affordable housing and giving qualified buyers the right of first refusal for tax-credit properties when affordability periods expire.
- Supports rehabilitation of affordable housing, increasing housing supply, and funding the Virginia Housing Trust Fund.
- Supports reducing regulations that slow housing construction and streamlining reviews to lower costs.
- Supports direct investment in housing for first-time buyers and middle-class families.
- Supports local input and tailored solutions to address regional housing challenges and boost supply.

- Supports ensuring data centers contribute fairly to energy costs and promoting energy independence through low-cost, local electricity sources like offshore wind and solar projects.
- Supports reducing consumer energy costs and creating jobs through energy efficiency projects like home weatherization.
- Supports energy storage solutions, demand response programs, and better use of surplus energy.
- Supports regulatory reforms to speed up new energy projects, lower costs, and improve timelines.
- Supports outreach for Virginia’s Percentage of Income Payment program to help low-income households pay their energy bills.
- Supports protecting Virginia’s coastline and natural resources for the future.

- Plans to lower prescription drug costs by creating a single, Virginia-run pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) for Medicaid and banning practices that lead patients to partner pharmacies.
- Supports access to contraception, abortion, and in vitro fertilization (IVF).
- Supports medication price transparency, using Virginia's purchasing power to make value-based purchases of drugs, and increasing the production of affordable generic drugs.
- Supports giving healthcare providers more control over care and limiting insurance prior authorizations or step therapy requirements.
- Supports improving access to affordable healthcare in rural areas, protecting safety-net providers, and expanding telehealth.
- Supports improving hospital price transparency by creating a statewide comparison tool and enforcing laws against predatory billing practices and scammers.
- Supports policies to reduce maternal mortality rates and increase access to healthcare for children.

- Supports expanding low-cost electricity sources like offshore wind and solar.
- Supports ensuring data centers pay their fair share for electricity while encouraging clean energy and storage.
- Supports reducing consumer energy costs and creating jobs through energy efficiency projects like home weatherization.
- Supports energy storage solutions, demand response programs, and better use of surplus energy.
- Supports regulatory reforms to speed up new energy projects, lower costs, and improve timelines.
- Supports outreach for Virginia’s Percentage of Income Payment program to help low-income households pay their energy bills.
- Supports protecting Virginia’s coastline and natural resources for the future.

- Supports lowering prescription drug costs by creating a single Virginia-run pharmacy benefit manager for Medicaid.
- Supports reproductive healthcare, including abortion, contraception, and IVF.
- Supports patients using the pharmacy of their choice and banning pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from steering patients to affiliated pharmacies. 
- Supports medication price transparency, using Virginia's purchasing power to make value-based purchases of drugs, and increasing the production of affordable generic drugs.
- Supports giving healthcare providers more control over care and limiting insurance prior authorizations or step therapy requirements.
- Supports improving access to affordable healthcare in rural areas, protecting safety-net providers, and expanding telehealth.
- Plans to create a statewide hospital price comparison tool.
- Supports stopping predatory billing practices and enforcing surprise billing laws.
- Supports holding scammers accountable for fraudulent insurance enrollments.
- Supports healthcare access for infants and toddlers and expanding early intervention services.
- Supports investing in Virginia’s rural healthcare workforce and improving telehealth access for rural communities.
- Supports police that ain to reduce maternal mortality, especially among Black and Hispanic mothers.

- Opposes policies that take away funding from public schools.
- Plans to address the state teacher shortage by boosting recruitment and mentorship, and raising teacher pay.
- Plans to ensure schools have the necessary resources to meet learning standards and uphold "academic excellence and rigor."
- Opposes policies that create fear among teachers, such as the governor's tip line for reporting "inherently divisive practices" in schools.
- Plans to invest in Virginia’s colleges, universities, community colleges, and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

As of September 3, 2025, Abigail Spanberger’s website did not contain information on this issue.

- Supports lowering prescription drug costs by directing the effective implementation of a single, Virginia-run pharmacy benefit manager for Medicaid.
- Believes in allowing more Virginians to choose their pharmacy and supports banning pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from steering patients to affiliated pharmacies while ensuring fair payment for out-of-network pharmacies.
- Supports reducing drug costs and improving access by enforcing price transparency, preventing price gouging, and using Virginia's purchasing power for value-based purchasing and increased production of affordable generics.
- Believes healthcare providers should direct care, not insurance companies, and plans to limit prior authorization and step therapy processes to ensure Virginians receive effective treatments.
- Supports improving access to affordable healthcare, especially in rural areas, by investing in critical care fields, protecting safety net providers, ensuring services for people with disabilities, and implementing telehealth recommendations to reduce barriers.
- Wants to improve hospital price transparency by creating a statewide comparison tool to help Virginians find the best prices.
- Plans to "stop predatory billing practices harming Virginians" by enforcing Virginia’s surprise billing laws.
- Plans to hold scammers accountable for fraudulently enrolling Virginians in unnecessary coverage.
- Supports increasing access to healthcare for infants and toddlers and expanding early intervention services for children with developmental disabilities.
- Supports investing in Virginia’s rural healthcare workforce and improving telehealth access for rural communities.
- Supports access to abortion, contraception, and in vitro fertilization (IVF).
- Supports making Virginia a leader in reducing maternal mortality, especially for Black and Hispanic mothers.

- Supports making Virginia more energy independent by expanding low-cost electricity generation sources like offshore wind and solar energy.
- Believes data centers should "pay their fair share" for electricity generation and transmission to prevent higher energy costs for Virginia families. Supports encouraging clean energy generation and storage at data centers.
- Supports reducing consumer energy costs and job creation in Virginia by maximizing energy efficiency measures like home weatherization and financing projects.
- Supports using existing resources more efficiently by deploying short- and long-duration energy storage, implementing demand response programs, and exploring surplus interconnection opportunities like solar plus storage.
- Supports addressing regulatory issues to expedite new energy projects, reduce costs, and increase certainty, and advocates for collaboration with other governors to improve interconnection approval timelines, fees, regional capacity, and wholesale power prices.
- Plans to increase awareness and outreach for Virginia’s Percentage of Income Payment program, which provides bill assistance for low-income customers.
- Plans to focus on increasing energy efficiency, protecting Virginia’s coastline from offshore drilling, and safeguarding Virginia’s natural resources for future generations.

- Supports strengthening Virginia’s safe storage laws to prevent children and individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others from accessing firearms.
- Supports banning the manufacturing, sale, and transfer of assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines to reduce mass shootings.

- Supports the General Assembly’s effort to add a restoration of voting rights amendment to the Virginia Constitution.

- Supports expanding access to the Child Care Subsidy Program and improving communication about available services for families in the program or on the waitlist.
- Supports parents having access to high-quality child care options and incentivizing providers to participate in Virginia's Quality Birth to Five (VQB5) program.
- Supports improving early child care by enhancing worker retention, expanding free dual enrollment for career pathways, offering bonuses for educators in challenging regions, and establishing best practices for professional development.
- Wants to prevent benefit cliffs to support economic mobility for families.
- Plans to address trade concerns, increase capital access, and expand market opportunities for farmers.

- Supports giving cities and counties the flexibility to build more housing and create affordable housing programs.
- Supports strengthening Virginia’s fair housing protections and prioritizing the Virginia Fair Housing Office to enforce antidiscrimination laws and health & safety standards.
- Wants to address homelessness and evictions by re-establishing an Interagency Council on Homelessness and Housing.
- Supports preserving and protecting existing affordable housing, providing localities and qualified entities with a transferable right of first refusal to buy tax-credit supported multifamily housing when its affordability period expires, and investing in the rehabilitation of affordable housing.
- Supports increasing housing supply and affordability by dedicating more state private activity bonds to housing and boosting funding for the Virginia Housing Trust Fund.
- Supports reducing regulations that slow down housing construction, streamlining reviews and permitting for redevelopment, and identifying policies increasing housing production costs.
- Supports direct investments in affordable housing for Virginia families and providing incentives for new construction aimed at first-time homeowners and middle-class families.
- Supports addressing Virginia’s regional housing challenges with tailored solutions, local input, and technical assistance for rezoning to boost housing supply.

Abigail Spanberger is from Virginia. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia and a master's degree in business administration from Purdue and GISMA, a school based in Germany. Abigail and her husband, Adam, have three daughters together.

- Supports lowering prescription drug costs by directing the effective implementation of a single, Virginia-run pharmacy benefit manager for Medicaid.
- Believes in allowing more Virginians to choose their pharmacy and supports banning pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from steering patients to affiliated pharmacies while ensuring fair payment for out-of-network pharmacies.
- Supports reducing drug costs and improving access by enforcing price transparency, preventing price gouging, and using Virginia's purchasing power for value-based purchasing and increased production of affordable generics.
- Believes healthcare providers should direct care, not insurance companies, and plans to limit prior authorization and step therapy processes to ensure Virginians receive effective treatments.
- Supports improving access to affordable healthcare, especially in rural areas, by investing in critical care fields, protecting safety net providers, ensuring services for people with disabilities, and implementing telehealth recommendations to reduce barriers.
- Wants to improve hospital price transparency by creating a statewide comparison tool to help Virginians find the best prices.
- Plans to "stop predatory billing practices harming Virginians" by enforcing Virginia’s surprise billing laws.
- Plans to hold scammers accountable for fraudulently enrolling Virginians in unnecessary coverage.
- Supports increasing access to healthcare for infants and toddlers and expanding early intervention services for children with developmental disabilities.
- Supports investing in Virginia’s rural healthcare workforce and improving telehealth access for rural communities.
- Supports access to abortion, contraception, and in vitro fertilization (IVF).
- Believes the U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rates of any developed, high-income nation, with even higher rates for Black and Hispanic mothers.

- Supports lowering prescription drug costs by directing the effective implementation of a single, Virginia-run pharmacy benefit manager for Medicaid.
- Believes in allowing more Virginians to choose their pharmacy and supports banning pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from steering patients to affiliated pharmacies while ensuring fair payment for out-of-network pharmacies.
- Supports reducing drug costs and improving access by enforcing price transparency, preventing price gouging, and using Virginia's purchasing power for value-based purchasing and increased production of affordable generics.
- Believes healthcare providers should direct care, not insurance companies, and plans to limit prior authorization and step therapy processes to ensure Virginians receive effective treatments.
- Supports improving access to affordable healthcare, especially in rural areas, by investing in critical care fields, protecting safety net providers, ensuring services for people with disabilities, and implementing telehealth recommendations to reduce barriers.
- Wants to improve hospital price transparency by creating a statewide comparison tool to help Virginians find the best prices.
- Plans to "stop predatory billing practices harming Virginians" by enforcing Virginia’s surprise billing laws.
- Plans to hold scammers accountable for fraudulently enrolling Virginians in unnecessary coverage.

- Supports making Virginia more energy independent by expanding low-cost electricity generation sources like offshore wind and solar energy.
- Believes data centers should "pay their fair share" for electricity generation and transmission to prevent higher energy costs for Virginia families. Supports encouraging clean energy generation and storage at data centers.
- Supports reducing consumer energy costs and job creation in Virginia by maximizing energy efficiency measures like home weatherization and financing projects.
- Supports using existing resources more efficiently by deploying short- and long-duration energy storage, implementing demand response programs, and exploring surplus interconnection opportunities like solar plus storage.
- Supports addressing regulatory issues to expedite new energy projects, reduce costs, and increase certainty, and advocates for collaboration with other governors to improve interconnection approval timelines, fees, regional capacity, and wholesale power prices.
- Plans to increase awareness and outreach for Virginia’s Percentage of Income Payment program, which provides bill assistance for low-income customers.

- Opposes policies that take away funding from public schools.
- Plans to address the state teacher shortage by boosting recruitment and mentorship, and raising teacher pay.
- Plans to ensure schools have the necessary resources to meet learning standards and uphold "academic excellence and rigor."
- Opposes policies that create fear among teachers, such as the governor's tip line for reporting "inherently divisive practices" in schools.

- Supports giving cities and counties the flexibility to build more housing and create affordable housing programs.
- Supports addressing Virginia’s regional housing challenges with tailored solutions, local input, and technical assistance for rezoning to boost housing supply.
- Supports reducing regulations that slow down housing construction, streamlining reviews and permitting for redevelopment, and identifying policies increasing housing production costs.
- Supports direct investments in affordable housing for Virginia families and providing incentives for new construction aimed at first-time homeowners and middle-class families.
- Supports increasing housing supply and affordability by dedicating more state private activity bonds to housing and boosting funding for the Virginia Housing Trust Fund.
- Supports preserving and protecting existing affordable housing, providing localities and qualified entities with a transferable right of first refusal to buy tax-credit supported multifamily housing when its affordability period expires, and investing in the rehabilitation of affordable housing.
- Wants to address homelessness and evictions by re-establishing an Interagency Council on Homelessness and Housing.
- Supports strengthening Virginia’s fair housing protections and prioritizing the Virginia Fair Housing Office to enforce antidiscrimination laws and health & safety standards.

Abigail is a law enforcement officer at the U.S. Postal Service, where she tracked narcotics traffickers and worked on money laundering cases. She later worked as a case officer at the CIA, handling counterterrorism and nuclear proliferation cases.

As of September 3, 2025, Abigail Spanberger did not have a website or any information online.

Abigail Spanberger is a law enforcement officer at the U.S. Postal Service, where she tracked narcotics traffickers and worked on money laundering cases. She later served as a case officer at the CIA, handling counterterrorism and nuclear proliferation cases.

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Supports legislation to aid veterans, small businesses, and addiction recovery services.

Promises to lobby state lawmakers for funding to fix old and dilapidated schools.

Opposes policies that take away funding from public schools.

Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Winsome Earle-Sears

Winsome Earle-Sears is from Kingston, Jamaica. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from Old Dominion University and a master's degree in organizational leadership from Regent University. She lives with her husband, Terence, and their three children in Virginia.

Winsome is a businesswoman and a trained electrician. She served in the United States Marine Corps. She also worked as a program manager for the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce and volunteered with AmeriCorps VISTA and was the owner of a plumbing, electrical, and home appliance business.

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Winsome is currently the lieutenant governor of Virginia. She was elected in 2021. Winsome previously served one term in the Virginia House of Delegates, elected in 2001. She ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2004 and as a write-in candidate for US Senate in 2018.

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Supports protecting Virginia’s business- and worker-friendly environment to boost job growth, higher wages, and lower unemployment rates.

Supports right-to-work laws, saying they "protect workers from heavy-handed union bosses, forced dues, and fewer job opportunities."

Supports reducing government spending and regulations.

Supports "common-sense" tax cuts, including eliminating the car tax.

Opposes raising the minimum wage, providing paid sick leave, and providing paid family medical leave.

Supports leaving decisions on minimum wage, paid sick leave, and family medical leave to businesses rather than state laws.

- Supports protecting Virginia’s business- and worker-friendly environment to boost job growth, higher wages, and lower unemployment rates.
- Supports right-to-work laws, saying they "protect workers from heavy-handed union bosses, forced dues, and fewer job opportunities."
- Supports reducing government spending and regulations.
- Supports "common-sense" tax cuts, including eliminating the car tax.
- Supports leaving decisions on minimum wage, paid sick leave, and family medical leave to businesses rather than state laws.

Virginia gubernatorial hopefuls share their housing ideas as Commonwealth struggles with supply

Supports cooperation between state and local governments on housing issues.

Supports matching infrastructure grants, streamlining approval processes, and expanding tax initiatives to encourage public-private partnerships for affordable housing.

Supports providing infrastructure grants, streamlining approval processes, and expanding tax initiatives to encourage public-private partnerships for affordable housing.

- Supports cooperation between state and local governments on housing issues.
- Supports providing infrastructure grants, streamlining approval processes, and expanding tax initiatives to encourage public-private partnerships for affordable housing.

On the record: Winsome Earle-Sears

As lieutenant governor, voted against a bill that would have guaranteed the right to access and use birth control in Virginia.

Said, "I think we ought to take a good look at it to see how we can make it better. I’m not against medicinal marijuana. I’m just really worried about recreational marijuana."

Said, "I’m not against medicinal marijuana. I’m just really worried about recreational marijuana."

Opposes access to abortion, but said she would support exceptions for rape, incest, and when the life of a mother is in danger.

Previously backed a six-week abortion ban but later reversed, saying she supports exceptions for rape, incest, or when the mother’s life is at risk. 

Supports using Virginia’s “rainy day fund” to boost Medicaid funding.

- As lieutenant governor, voted against a bill that would have guaranteed the right to access and use birth control in Virginia.
- Said, "I’m not against medicinal marijuana. I’m just really worried about recreational marijuana."
- Previously backed a six-week abortion ban but later reversed, saying she supports exceptions for rape, incest, or when the mother’s life is at risk. 
- Supports using Virginia’s “rainy day fund” to boost Medicaid funding.

Supports an "all of the above" energy policy, including coal and gas.

Supports an "all of the above" energy policy, including coal, gas, oil, nuclear, and renewables.

Supports Virginia's removal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, calling it an "unnecessary tax on residents."

Supports Virginia's removal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), calling it an "unnecessary tax on residents." The RGGI requires power plants to pay for their carbon emissions, and the funds are used for energy efficiency and community programs.

- Supports an "all of the above" energy policy, including coal, gas, oil, nuclear, and renewables.
- Supports Virginia's removal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), calling it an "unnecessary tax on residents." The RGGI requires power plants to pay for their carbon emissions, and the funds are used for energy efficiency and community programs.

Supports state laws that protect women-only spaces and preserve equal opportunities for female athletes.

Supports state laws that "protect women-only spaces and preserve equal opportunities for female athletes."

Believes "Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies" have increased crime rates in Virginia and plans to implement stricter measures to address it.

Supports providing law enforcement with more resources.

Opposes gun control legislation, such as bans on ghost guns and the sale of assault weapons.

Supports legislation that would prevent the first $20,000 of law enforcement officers’ salaries from being taxed by the state.

Supports providing educational and vocational opportunities for incarcerated individuals to help with employment and housing after their release.

Opposes recreational marijuana use, saying "there's no hope in that."

Opposes recreational marijuana use, saying it's a "gateway drug."

- Supports state laws that "protect women-only spaces and preserve equal opportunities for female athletes."
- Believes "Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies" have increased crime rates in Virginia and plans to implement stricter measures to address it.
- Supports providing law enforcement with more resources.
- Opposes gun control legislation, such as bans on ghost guns and the sale of assault weapons.
- Supports legislation that would prevent the first $20,000 of law enforcement officers’ salaries from being taxed by the state.
- Supports providing educational and vocational opportunities for incarcerated individuals to help with employment and housing after their release.
- Opposes recreational marijuana use, saying it's a "gateway drug."

Wants to "ensure violent criminal illegal immigrants are arrested, detained, and sent back to where they came from."

Opposes sanctuary cities and believes local officials should collaborate with federal immigration agents.

- Wants to "ensure violent criminal illegal immigrants are arrested, detained, and sent back to where they came from."
- Opposes sanctuary cities and believes local officials should collaborate with federal immigration agents.

Winsome Earle-Sears talks higher education in first UVa event of the campaign

Opposes allowing students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity.

Opposes allowing students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity, saying "What is happening in our schools right now [is] dangerous [and] insane... There are two sexes, boys and girls."

Supports school voucher programs that would allow low-income parents to use state funding for private school tuition.

Supports school voucher programs that would allow qualifying students to use state funding for private school tuition.

Believes higher education is facing challenges such as free speech debates on college campuses and antisemitism.

- Opposes allowing students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity, saying "What is happening in our schools right now [is] dangerous [and] insane... There are two sexes, boys and girls."
- Supports school voucher programs that would allow qualifying students to use state funding for private school tuition.
- Believes higher education is facing challenges such as free speech debates on college campuses and antisemitism.

Prioritized election integrity and emphasized that only U.S. citizens should have access to the ballot.

Suports election integrity and emphasizes that only U.S. citizens should be able to vote.

Supports the removal of individuals from voter rolls.

Supports the removal of individuals from voter rolls who had not indicated their citizenship status on driver's license paperwork.

- Suports election integrity and emphasizes that only U.S. citizens should be able to vote.
- Supports the removal of individuals from voter rolls who had not indicated their citizenship status on driver's license paperwork.

Winsome Earle-Sears

- Supports an "all of the above" energy policy, including coal, gas, oil, nuclear, and renewables.
- Supports Virginia's removal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, calling it an "unnecessary tax on residents."

- Opposes allowing students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity, saying "What is happening in our schools right now [is] dangerous [and] insane... There are two sexes, boys and girls."
- Supports school voucher programs that would allow qualifying students to use state funding for private school tuition.

- Supports state laws that "protect women-only spaces and preserve equal opportunities for female athletes."
- Believes "Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies" have increased crime rates in Virginia and plans to implement stricter measures to address it.
- Supports providing law enforcement with more resources.
- Opposes gun control legislation, such as bans on ghost guns and the sale of assault weapons.
- Supports legislation that would prevent the first $20,000 of law enforcement officers’ salaries from being taxed by the state.
- Supports providing educational and vocational opportunities for incarcerated individuals to help with employment and housing after their release.

- Supports protecting Virginia’s business- and worker-friendly environment to boost job growth, higher wages, and lower unemployment rates.
- Supports right-to-work laws, saying they "protect workers from heavy-handed union bosses, forced dues, and fewer job opportunities."
- Supports reducing government spending and regulations.
- Supports "common-sense" tax cuts, including eliminating the car tax.
- Supports leaving decisions on minimum wage, paid sick leave, and family medical leave to businesses rather than state laws.
- Plans to eliminate the state’s car tax.

- Supports state laws that "protect women-only spaces and preserve equal opportunities for female athletes."
- Believes "Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies" have increased crime rates in Virginia and plans to implement stricter measures to address it.
- Supports providing law enforcement with more resources.
- Opposes gun control legislation, such as bans on ghost guns and the sale of assault weapons.
- Supports legislation that would prevent the first $20,000 of law enforcement officers’ salaries from being taxed by the state.

- Suports election integrity and emphasizes that only U.S. citizens should be able to vote.

- Supports allowing public money to be used for private schooling, saying "No child should be stuck in an underperforming school because of their zip code or their parent’s income level."

As of September 3, 2025, Winsome Earle-Sears’s website did not contain information on this issue.

- As lieutenant governor, voted against a bill that would have guaranteed the right to access and use birth control in Virginia.
- Said, "I’m not against medicinal marijuana. I’m just really worried about recreational marijuana."
- Previously backed a six-week abortion ban but later reversed, saying she supports exceptions for rape, incest, or when the mother’s life is at risk. 

- Supports state laws that "protect women-only spaces and preserve equal opportunities for female athletes."
- Believes "Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies" have increased crime rates in Virginia and plans to implement stricter measures to address it.
- Supports providing law enforcement with more resources.
- Opposes gun control legislation, such as bans on ghost guns and the sale of assault weapons.

- Said she is "morally opposed" to abortions and same-sex marriage.

- Supports state laws that protect women-only spaces and preserve equal opportunities for female athletes.
- Believes "Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies" have increased crime rates in Virginia and plans to implement stricter measures to address it.
- Supports providing law enforcement with more resources.
- Opposes gun control legislation, such as bans on ghost guns and the sale of assault weapons.

- Supports protecting Virginia’s business- and worker-friendly environment to boost job growth, higher wages, and lower unemployment rates.
- Supports right-to-work laws, saying they "protect workers from heavy-handed union bosses, forced dues, and fewer job opportunities."
- Supports reducing government spending and regulations.
- Supports "common-sense" tax cuts, including eliminating the car tax.

- Supports state laws that protect women-only spaces and preserve equal opportunities for female athletes.
- Believes "Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies" have increased crime rates in Virginia and plans to implement stricter measures to address it.
- Supports providing law enforcement with more resources.

- Wants to "ensure violent criminal illegal immigrants are arrested, detained, and sent back to where they came from."
- Opposes sanctuary cities.

- Supports school choice, saying "No child should be stuck in an underperforming school because of their zip code or their parent’s income level."

Winsome Earle-Sears is from Kingston, Jamaica. She holds a bachelor's degree in English with a minor in economics and a master's degree in organizational leadership with a concentration in government. She lives with her husband, Terence, and their three children in Virginia.

Winsome is a businesswoman and a trained electrician. She served in the United States Marine Corps. She also worked as a program manager for the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce and volunteered with AmeriCorps VISTA.

Winsome is currently the lieutenant governor of Virginia. She was elected in 2021. Winsome was first elected in 2002 to a majority Black House of Delegates district, a first for a Republican in Virginia since 1865. She served in the House of Delegates until 2004. 

As of September 3, 2025, Winsome Earle-Sears did not have a website or any information online.

- The governor chooses agency leaders, sets state policies, and approves Virginia's budget. They are also the leader of the Virginia National Guard and the Virginia Defense Force.
- The governor can sign bills to become law, let them pass without a signature, or veto them. They may also use a special line-item veto to strike parts of a bill. 
- The governor serves a four-year term and cannot run again right after.
- The governor is elected by plurality vote, which means that the candidate with the highest number of votes wins office. 
- As of 2025, the governor earns $175,000 a year.
- The governor has the power to grant pardons and reduce punishments, except in some special cases. 

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