Earle-Seers has previously faced difficult races. Her campaign for Virginia’s ruler does not differ

Richmond, Virginia (AP)-Lieutenant Winsome Earle-Sears used to face huge obstacles in her political campaigns, and her attempt to be the next Virginia ruler is not an exception.

The Gamaican immigrant, veteran warrior and warriors in Marine and Christian first will need to win the Republican preliminary elections in June while President Donald Trump took his party and his movement “made America great again.” After that, Earl will have to attract mild and independent voters in the general elections in November, when Democrats are looking to link it to Trump’s reform of the federal government, an effort that worries many Virginia about their future.

The changing scene in Washington has already affects some voters in densely populated provinces in North Virginia, where if they are not working in the government, you may know someone who does this. But Earle-Sears, who has long challenged traditional wisdom to the meaning of being conservative in Virginia, says it is at the test level.

“Life is a battle, and we should not be surprised by the battle.”

However, this battle grew more complicated.

Before February, Earl Serx was in a row to confront one of the potential Republican Party rival, a strange person who raised only $ 126 for his campaign, compared to more than two million dollars to the Lieutenant Ruler. Dave Laruk, a former government representative, announced that he will nominate, pledging to the state government through a “government ministry in Virginia” that reflects Dog Elle Mouc in the Trump administration.

The former Senator Amanda Chis soon joined the race. However, at this point, it is not clear whether Larock or Chase will collect sufficient signatures to qualify for the basic ballot by the deadline for the next month.

With the Republican President remaining calm so far about his favorite candidate, Chis has quickly reminded voters that Earl cars had kept it from Trump and his political movement in the past.

“The current Republican candidate who was announced is” he never came out and our president, Donald J. Trump.

If this is not clear enough, she later added: “We want Trump’s candidate for the ruler.”

“The IRL Ceps campaign does not seem to be worried:” competitors can enter the race, but the result will be the same. “-Its victory.

Modern history may not prefer Virginia Republics this electoral season. Every time a new president has been elected since 1977, Virginia voted the following year in the opposite party ruler.

Trump, who was praised by Earl Ceres, did not carry Virginia in his three presidential campaigns. Democrats in Virginia began to take advantage of the voters, they showed an innocence towards the president and criticized the ruler inherent to defend Trump’s spending discounts, on the pretext that she and other Republicans support unilateral in the White House of federal functions.

But Earl Cepers promotes herself as a politician who overcame the obstacles that some said could not be overcome.

As a black Republic, she said it challenges misconceptions about who should belong to any party. Although the 400 -year -old Virginia history may indicate the possibility of a black woman who has occupied a position at the state level, Earl broke the cars of this barrier.

She was registered on her office wall, and Earl cars had written the verses of the Bible along with reminders of such a design: “Come, do the impossible and impossible. Come and bear the impossible, the mixture. Come and believe the impossible, and the methods.” The lining of the wall of its office wing are framed images of the first African members who were elected to the General Assembly of Virginia during the reconstruction and Koreta Scott King.

In some cases, the position of the novice ruler towards politics led it to unexpected victories. This happened, for example, when a 10 -term democratic was toppled at the Council of Delegates at the beginning of its political career. Earl Cers has spent half the amount of money in the area with a left tendency. In 2021, nearly two decades, the last of which held the last political position, Earl Sarsr became the first black woman to be elected in the state.

She also had relapses. Bobby Scott, Representative Bobby Scott, was easily defeated by the 2004 race for Congress. When I was nominated for the US Senate in 2018 as a writing candidate, she got less than 1 % of the votes.

“Certainly, being a black woman makes you a dual minority, and being a black republican woman will make you a triple minority,” said Ernest McGlin, Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond. He added: “You may be able to bring a kind of experience of life that some may not have in the party. But you also have to face some misconceptions and deep concepts that some members of your party may have.”

Virginia is one of two states that choose a new ruler this year and is also one of the best federal functions. Trump’s agenda will undoubtedly play a role in the positions of voters, where Wino continues and completely eliminates agencies. Nearly 300 federal workers and 100 government contractors have already applied for unemployment during the first three weeks of February in Virginia, according to the state’s minister of labor, George “Brian”, and these numbers are expected to grow.

However, there are some divisions in the Republican Party in Virginia on Trump’s loyalties.

Larock joined the “Stopping theft” rally near the White House on January 6, 2021, although he said he had not participated in the violence in the Capitol that day. Chis, who described herself as “Trump in the Kaab”, was censored by the state’s Senate in 2021 after it seemed to express support for people who rioted the country’s capital on January 6.

Earl has not been a soft cars to Trump in recent years.

In 2020, she participated in the presidency of a group called black Americans to re -election President Trump. But after the mid -202, she said that Trump was a responsibility and suggested that it was time for the party to go ahead. In her memoirs of 2023, Earl Serz praised Trump’s policies during his first term, but she said: “For the sake of the nation, I do not think he should run again in 2024.” Last August, she said she would vote for him, according to Linchburg and progress news.

Trump Airl criticized cars, as he posted on the social truth, the social media platform, in 2022: “He never felt satisfied with the servers. I always thought it was false. Now I discovered it.”

Eryl Ciesers says it is not time.

She said, “I am a Christian, and so I go to the guidance.”

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Olivia Diaz is a member of the Associated Press Corps/report of America’s news. America report is a non -profit national service program that puts journalists in local news rooms to report secret issues.