People. Centrist politicians do not exist, especially in the Democratic Party.
For example, Virginians are shocked that Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger isn’t a centrist!
Since taking office, Spanberger and the Democrats who control the Virginia legislature have been pushing through or attempting to push through horrendous bills.
Spanberger’s only been in office since January 17. Virginians are more divided over her than previous governors. From The Washington Post:
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s approval rating stands at 47 percent two months into the Democrat’s term, with 46 percent of voters disapproving and 7 percent expressing no opinion in a Washington Post-Schar School poll.Spanberger won in a 15-point landslide last year after touting her reputation for bipartisanship built on three terms representing a conservative-leaning district in Congress. But her current ratings reflect sharp polarization among Virginia voters in their views of the state’s first female governor.The approval mark for Spanberger is 13 percentage points lower than the average for Virginia governors in Post polling since the 1990s. Her near-even split between approval and disapproval is a worse net approval rating than the early-term scores of her predecessors in previous Post polls. It is also slightly weaker than ratings of her immediate predecessor, Glenn Youngkin (R), in a Post-Schar School poll last fall, showing he ended his term with 50 percent approval and 46 percent disapproval. Unlike Spanberger, Youngkin had come into office with a very narrow victory.
“Some amount of polarization is baked in, but this is unusual at this early stage of her administration and given that she had long cultivated a centrist image,” Mark Rozell, dean of George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, told WaPo.
Notice how WaPo slipped in that Spanberger is Virginia’s first female governor?
It has to be misogyny!
Independent voters are split, with 45% approving of Spanberger and 46% disapproving.
Almost 9 out of 10 Republicans disapprove of her.
“Two-thirds say they either strongly approve (29 percent) or strongly disapprove (38 percent),” according to WaPo. “Fewer than 6 in 10 felt strongly about Youngkin’s performance at any point in his tenure, with 28 percent strongly approving and 25 percent strongly disapproving in Post-Schar polling last September.”
Spanberger also lost support with black voters, but not with women:
Her support from Black Virginia voters appears shaky, with two-thirds saying they approve of Spanberger’s performance, compared with the 93 percent of Black voters who supported her last fall, according to network exit polls.Spanberger maintains an edge with women voters, 52 percent of whom approve of her performance, while 54 percent of men disapprove.
Spanberger ended all cooperation with ICE when she took office. What has happened since then? The majority of murders committed by illegal aliens occur in Fairfax County:
Fairfax County’s sanctuary policies have made it a hot bed for illegal alien criminals.So far in 2026, illegal aliens have allegedly committed 75% of all murders in the far-left county. Last week, ICE announced that it had lodged a detainer against Misael Lopez Gomez from Guatemala who allegedly bludgeoned his three-month old daughter to death. Lopez Gomez’s arrest comes just one day after another illegal alien from Guatemala, Anibal Armando Chavarria Muy, was arrested for fatally stabbing a man in his home.
Stacey wrote about Lopez Gomez. Will Spanberger ignore that detainer?
Let’s not forget Abdul Jalloh, 32, an illegal alien from Sierra Leone who allegedly stabbed to death Stephanie Minter, 41, at a Virginia bus stop.
He previously faced “rape, malicious wounding, assault, identity theft, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, assault, and pickpocketing” charges.
Spanberger already said she wouldn’t honor an ICE detainer for Jalloh, demanding a judicial warrant.
On Monday, DHS slammed the Fairfax County District Attorney’s office for offering two illegal aliens a sweetheart plea deal “after the two stabbed a man to death in Fairfax County in 2024.”
“This 5-year sweetheart plea deal for murder is insane. This is yet another example of Fairfax sanctuary politicians siding with criminal illegal aliens over U.S. citizens,” said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. “We are calling on Fairfax County sanctuary politicians and Governor Abigail Spanberger to commit to not releasing these murderers from jail back into our communities. How many more times must they release criminals into our neighborhoods to create more innocent victims?”
Spanberger has told citizens that the government lacks an “automatic strategy to improve cost of living.”
But you know what helps the cost of living? Not taxing people to death.
Rozell pointed out that the “multiple tax proposals in the General Assembly, even though not enacted and not championed by Spanberger, drove a narrative of Democrats in Richmond lurching way left, which likely affected perceptions of the governor.”
Spanberger loses independents in this category, with 41% thinking her policies will make the state less affordable.
This part broke my heart:
Mason Necci, a self-described independent voter in rural Culpeper County, said he did not vote for Spanberger but hoped she would improve the cost of living.Instead, he feels, she has been trying “to make herself into a Democratic icon.”“I don’t see anything that makes me think I’ll be able to own a home again one day in this state,” said Necci, a 44-year-old car parts salesman.
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