Winsome Earle-Sears has already made history. Can she do it again?

Virginia is making history as voters choose between two women candidates for governor: Democrat Abigail Spanberger and Republican Winsome Earle-Sears, with Earle-Sears being the first Black Republican woman to secure a major party's gubernatorial nomination. Earle-Sears, a Jamaican immigrant who arrived in the U.S. at age six, has campaigned by defending Trump administration policies while criticizing Democrats' appeals to Black voters, women, and immigrants—demographics she personally represents. Despite her historic candidacy, polling consistently shows her trailing Spanberger by approximately seven percentage points.