“The message is important. But the messenger is equally important.” “The only way to change things is to win elections,” she said. “And who better to help make that change but me? I look like the strategy.”
RICHMOND, Va. — On a December afternoon, Winsome Sears, Virginia’s lieutenant governor-elect, stood at the podium in the state Senate chamber where she will soon preside. It was empty but for a few clerks and staffers who were walking her through a practice session, making pretend motions and points of order. Sears followed along as the clerks explained arcane Senate protocols, although she occasionally raised matters that weren’t in the script.
“The only way to change things is to win elections,” she said. “And who better to help make that change but me? I look like the strategy.” She did not run for reelection, instead launching an underdog campaign against Democratic U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott. Scott returned to Congress, where he remains, and the House of Delegates seat returned to Democratic hands for good. Sears was “done with politics,” she said.
“I just took a look at the field, and said, ‘My God, we’re gonna lose again,’” she said. “Nobody was going to reach out to the various communities that needed to be heard from: women, immigrants, you know, Latinos, Asians, Blacks, etc.” Jennifer McClellan, a Democratic state senator from Richmond, agreed that Democrats could not assume that Black people would show up for them at the polls, saying that Black voters, like any voters, choose candidates based on who they believe is going to help solve their problems. But, she continued, little that Sears has said suggests she would be that person in office.
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