Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Monday endorsed fellow Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears to succeed him in 2025 when his four-year term expires.
Virginia is the only state in the nation that has a one four-year term limit for its governor. Youngkin, Sears and Attorney General Jason Miyares made a surprising Republican election sweep of the executive branch’s top offices in the purple state in 2021. That year, Sears, a Marine Corps veteran, became Virginia’s first female lieutenant governor, and the first Black woman and Jamaican-born American citizen elected to statewide office.
“Winsome has been an outstanding Lt. Governor, and she will be a great Governor,” Youngkin wrote in a post on X. “She has been an outspoken advocate for common-sense conservative principles and policies, a passionate voice for our military and veterans, and a relentless advocate for educational freedom and economic opportunity. She brings the fighting spirit of a Marine to the office every single day.”
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