# Virginia's Winsome Earl-Sears: "I AM SPEAKING!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 4, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581 "2025-11-04T21:53:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/1 "2025-11-04T21:53:35Z")
Surely this must be the most meme-able cut of the 2025 off-year election. Every time her opponent for governor, Abigail Spanberger, played this ad, I busted out laughing and repeated, “I AM SPEAKING!” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-cG0gwFDdBY/maxresdefault.jpg "Abigail Spanberger's hilarious attack ad against Winsome Earle-Sears ("I AM SPEAKING!") [FULL] 2025") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cG0gwFDdBY) ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/2 "2025-11-04T22:26:32Z")
No! I am speaking! ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/3 "2025-11-05T01:19:06Z")
I AM SPEAKING! The Associated Press and CNN have called the race for Spanberger, who got an astonishing 90% of the Black vote against a Black candidate. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/4 "2025-11-05T02:14:40Z")
The voters have spoken. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/5 "2025-11-05T02:33:31Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Spanberger, who got an astonishing 90% of the Black vote against a Black candidate. Would love to hear how the MAGA friendly media spin that result. 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/6 "2025-11-05T02:40:04Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > Would love to hear how the MAGA friendly media spin that result. Ima go out on a limb and say their spin will be sooooooper racist. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/7 "2025-11-05T02:51:03Z")
I’m speaking, and so’s my wife! ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/8 "2025-11-05T03:24:58Z")
Trump didn’t endorse her. Probably because she’s a Black woman. She certainly did enough to run on _his_ record. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/9 "2025-11-05T03:59:37Z")
She explained away the lack of a Trump endorsement gracefully. > [@](#): > > Earle-Sears, who has been loyal to Trump’s MAGA agenda, told CBS she had spoken to Trump, but did not provide any specifics about their conversation. > > “Yes, the president and I have spoken, and I’m not, I’ve been in the, you know, when I, you know, think about this…,” said the Virginia gubernatorial nominee, flubbing her answer. > **[Republican Winsome Earle-Sears struggles to answer why Trump didn’t endorse...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republican-winsome-earle-sears-struggles-160515963.html)** > > Earle-Sears has been a loyal supporter of President Trump’s MAGA agenda. Despite securing the Republican nomination in Virginia’s gubernatorial race, ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/10 "2025-11-05T03:59:56Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > She certainly did enough to run on _his_ record. She also used [his playbook:](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/690) attempt to make her opponent “radioactive”. No matter how much MAGAbots attempt to make Democrats look bad, they will always be _worse!_ ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/11 "2025-11-05T12:32:22Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > “Yes, the president and I have spoken, and I’m not, I’ve been in the, you know, when I, you know, think about this…,” said the Virginia gubernatorial nominee, flubbing her answer. Ah, yes, I get it now. ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/12 "2025-11-05T15:17:18Z")
Losesome’s radio ads were so painfully stupid and whiny. “They HATE us! And they lie their butts off!” For sure tied up the entire unraised 12-year-old racist of suspect parentage demographic. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/13 "2025-11-05T15:20:23Z")
Winsome, lose some. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/14 "2025-11-05T15:31:28Z")
I mean, that was a lay-up, but I still like it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/15 "2025-11-05T15:34:29Z")
It would make a good headline. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/16 "2025-11-05T20:48:01Z")
But without the comma. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginias-winsome-earl-sears-i-am-speaking/1024581/17 "2025-11-05T21:03:58Z")
When I went to vote yesterday, there was a sign from her side saying something like “Keep a good thing going!”. I said to the people manning the Democratic table outside “Well, for varying definitions of good….”.