Youngkins Blistering Response to Spanberger After

If you suppose back to this time last yr, we had been fortunately ensconced in post-election bliss and eagerly watching as President-elect Donald Trump started the transition to his second time period in workplace. It was one thing to behold because Trump immediately turned the de facto president as his lame duck predecessor shortly pale away into irrelevancy. 

Weak leaders like Joe Biden create a energy vacuum (see also: the Democrat Party circa 2025).

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The commonwealth of Virginia doesn’t have such a drawback at the second, and Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin would love Democrats, and notably Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger, to kindly butt out of his business. Spanberger, naturally, is keen to get a head start on wreaking havoc in the Old Dominion, but she’ll have to cool her jets for the next two months.

Youngkin was rightfully incensed to be taught that Spanberger had taken it upon herself to write to the Board of Visitors (BOV) of the University of Virginia (UVA) this week asking them to maintain on deciding on a new president until after she is inaugurated in January. The earlier president resigned earlier this yr – under a great deal of stress from both Youngkin and Trump’s Department of Justice, it ought to be famous – after he stonewalled an investigation by the DOJ’s Civil Rights division into UVA’s use of race in admission and employment choices.

What Spanberger, a UVA graduate, is asking for right here is for her alma mater to resume the stonewalling that bought them into hassle in the first place until she will be able to get into workplace and start placing her hand-picked minions onto the BOV. And once she’s bought her far-left radicals in place, the college will undoubtedly revert to its DEI methods and go to warfare against the DOJ. 

Here’s a bit of what the governor-elect wrote:

I urge you to chorus from speeding this search course of and from deciding on the finalists for the presidency or a president until the Board is at full complement and in statutory compliance, which means that I’ve appointed and the General Assembly has confirmed new Board members. As it will likely be a precedence of my administration to stabilize and normalize the management of our public schools and universities, I’ll make appointments soon after my inauguration.

Mighty presumptive and meddling over her, no? She’s really the queen the AWFLs.

Youngkin wasn’t having any of it and let Spanberger know in no unsure phrases that he is still the boss. He despatched out a letter of his own on Thursday in which he reprimanded the governor-elect for her shameful overreach and untimely energy grab.

Gov. Youngkin isn’t joyful with Gov.-elect Spanberger and he let her know that in a letter. https://t.co/ufBQuINGXq pic.twitter.com/tErH74uzpf

— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) November 13, 2025

Here’s some of what Youngkin wrote:

In his letter, Youngkin accused Spanberger of sharing false claims and hyperbole, which he described as not only dangerous, but harmful. He said that, to his understanding, UVA’s search for a president has “followed national best practices and been a model of transparency.”

“It’s dangerous to wrongfully disparage committed individuals who volunteer to serve on university boards and the serious work they do,” he wrote. “Further, the Governor of the Commonwealth should speak thoughtfully and honor the service of those individuals.”

According to Youngkin, Spanberger’s actions “may have inflicted significant damage on the university [she] profess[es] to love.”

Prior to penning his letter, Governor Youngkin  told a reporter he was “shocked” to be taught Spanberger’s letter, calling it “inappropriate” for the governor-elect to “intimidate and bully an agency.” 

Governor Youngkin’s full reply to my query is below.

I’ve reached out to @SpanbergerForVA‘s workforce to get their response. pic.twitter.com/DdSD9jg9HJ

— Tyler Englander (@TylerEnglander) November 13, 2025

“There is one governor right now,” Youngkin declared. “And I happen to be that governor.”

Inauguration Day in Virginia shall be Saturday, January 17, 2026.

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