{"id":1161430,"date":"2021-12-27T14:49:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1161430"},"modified":"2021-12-27T14:49:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T19:49:26","slug":"who-better-to-help-make-that-change-but-me-winsome-sears-says-democrats-are-losing-grip-on-two-key-demographics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-better-to-help-make-that-change-but-me-winsome-sears-says-democrats-are-losing-grip-on-two-key-demographics\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Who Better To Help Make That Change But Me?\u2019: Winsome Sears Says Democrats Are Losing Grip On Two Key Demographics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwho-better-to-help-make-that-change-but-me-winsome-sears-says-democrats-are-losing-grip-on-two-key-demographics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1161430&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Winsome Sears, the Republican lieutenant governor-elect of Virginia, told The New York Times that Democrats are at risk of losing Black and immigrant voters.<\/p>\n<p>As an immigrant from Jamaica and the first black woman <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/02\/glenn-youngkin-terry-mcauliffe-virginia-governor-election-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">elected<\/a> to statewide office in Virginia, Sears <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/27\/us\/winsome-sears-black-voters-republican.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> the NYT she was the perfect person to kickstart her demographic\u2019s political realignment in America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message is important,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/03\/winsome-sears-kamala-harris-virginia-glenn-youngkin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sears<\/a> told the outlet. \u201cBut the messenger is equally important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only way to change things is to win elections,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd who better to help make that change but me? I look like the strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sears, who won alongside Republican Virginia governor-elect Glenn Youngkin, attributes her own <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/12\/joe-biden-mike-garcia-nicole-malliotakis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">identification as a conservative<\/a> to listening to debates over abortion and welfare during the 1988 presidential election, the NYT reported. She later ran in a majority-black district for the House of Delegates in 2001, winning a seat that had been held by a Democrat for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Sears argued that Republicans never even tried to sever the historic relationship between black voters and the Democratic Party, which is partly why she decided to run for lieutenant governor, the NYT reported.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7343241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7343241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears gestures as she delivers remarks to supporters at the Old Town Alexandria Farmers Market on October 30, 2021 in Alexandria, Virginia. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI just took a look at the field, and said, \u2018My God, we\u2019re gonna lose again,&#8217;\u201d Sears said. \u201cNobody was going to reach out to the various communities that needed to be heard from: women, immigrants, you know, Latinos, Asians, Blacks, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer McClellan, who campaigned for the Democratic nomination for governor before losing to former Gov. Terry Mcauliffe, agreed that her peers should not take black voters for granted, but said it was wrong to assume they supported Sears\u2019 conservative ideology. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/11\/winsome-sears-joe-biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-veterans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Winsome Sears Slams Biden\u2019s Leadership, Says \u2018He Took No Responsibility\u2019 For Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vast majority of Black voters disagree with her on abortion, on school choice, on guns,\u201d McClellan told the NYT. \u201cThose aren\u2019t necessarily the issues driving Black voters anyway. It\u2019s the economy, it\u2019s health care, it\u2019s broader access to education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Fredericks, a conservative radio host, agreed that Sears\u2019 principles might have risked her chances of victory had her campaign actually raised enough money to broadcast her politics, the NYT reported. He called her general election campaign \u201ca train wreck from start to finish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winsome Sears, the Republican lieutenant governor-elect of Virginia, told The New York Times that Democrats are at risk of losing Black and immigrant voters.As an immigrant from Jamaica and the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}