Dodges Bathroom Question, Caught Pocketing CCP

It’s been pretty easy crusing so for Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat candidate for governor in Virginia, but she has entered some significantly uneven waters of her own making this week. Spanberger, who goes head-to-head with Republican Winsome Earle-Sears, finally was requested some laborious questions by the media and she wiffed big time.

Up until now, Spanberger, in true Democrat fashion, has largely prevented media that isn’t extraordinarily pleasant to her (which is most media in the commonwealth). She’s saved a low profile for such a high-profile race, visiting areas of the state that are also pleasant to her. But, it was inevitable that her marketing campaign would finally have to face the hot-button issue going through Northern Virginia (NoVA), one of her electoral strongholds, proper now: ought to organic males be allowed to use the ladies loos and locker rooms at the state’s public colleges?

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She—and her marketing campaign workers—completely blew it. Here’s what occurred. 

Nick Minock, a reporter from the DC-area ABC affiliate who has been glorious at holding local faculty systems and directors accountable for their actions, despatched a checklist of questions to Spanberger’s marketing campaign, looking for to make clear her place on boys utilizing women loos. 

The matter is sure to be a big issue on the marketing campaign this 12 months after the U.S. Department of Education discovered a number of NoVA faculty systems in violation of Title IX. Meaning, these faculty systems have been decided to be violating the rights of women by forcing them to share faculty loos and locker rooms with organic males. (And vice versa in one Title IX case pending in Loudoun County.) Some of the college systems, including Loudoun, refuse to comply with federal requirements and intend to wage warfare with the Trump administration.

🚨WATCH: Abigail Spanberger’s reply ⬇️ when I requested does Spanberger assist organic males competing in ladies’s sports activities and males utilizing feminine locker rooms and loos at faculty and vice versa.

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— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) August 6, 2025

Here’s what Minock requested Spanberger:

• Does Spanberger consider the 5 faculty districts ought to defend and keep their current transgender and non-binary lavatory and locker room insurance policies?
• Does Spanberger assist insurance policies that permit college students the option to use loos and locker rooms at Okay-12 colleges based on college students’ chosen gender identification, not their intercourse at delivery?
• If the federal authorities stops sending federal funds to the 5 faculty districts because of these insurance policies, does Spanberger suppose the Virginia General Assembly ought to increase funding for the college divisions to make up the hole?
• Does Abigail Spanberger assist organic males competing in ladies’s sports activities?

Here’s what her marketing campaign got here back with: “Abigail is a mom of three kids in Virginia public schools — the safety of Virginia’s kids is Abigail’s top priority, and she believes that parents have the right to make decisions about what is best for their children.”

That’s what we call a “non-answer,” youngsters. According to Minock, he is heard from some Democrats that not only did Spanberger fail to deal with the issue, her marketing campaign also appeared to body transgender college students as harmful. That will not go over nicely with the far-left voters of Virginia.

Winsome Earle-Sears, by distinction, has been very constant with her view that college students must use the toilet that corresponds to their organic intercourse. In a press release, her marketing campaign called out Spanberger for failing to defend women:

“How long will it take Abigail Spanberger to decide if she wants to continue kowtowing to the dangerous, extreme left in her party?” said Press Secretary Peyton Vogel. “For Virginia parents, it’s far too long. For Winsome Earle-Sears, the answer is easy—protect our girls and make student safety a priority. Our children always come first.”

Spanberger’s dangerous week bought worse on Wednesday following the revelation that she had pocketed $50,000 in marketing campaign donations from a businessman who is a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Which is bizarre since Virginia law “forbids foreign nationals from making political contributions, and Chinese law typically bans CCP members from holding foreign citizenship or permanent residency.”

Abigail Spanberger might have hoped to coast through this race on platitudes and softball interviews, but the cracks are displaying. With women’ security on the road and international money in her coffers, Virginians are beginning to surprise: if this is how she handles stress now, how laborious would she crash out as governor?

Editor’s Note: President Trump is preventing to dismantle the Department of Education and guarantee America’s youngsters get the schooling they deserve.

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