{"id":15175,"date":"2025-11-03T15:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-endorses-dozens-ahead-of-tuesday-elections-but-doesnt-name-earle-sears\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T15:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:31:38","slug":"trump-endorses-dozens-ahead-of-tuesday-elections-but-doesnt-name-earle-sears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-endorses-dozens-ahead-of-tuesday-elections-but-doesnt-name-earle-sears\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump endorses dozens ahead of Tuesday elections \u2014 but doesn\u2019t name Earle-Sears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump endorsed more than 50 Republicans on Sunday night \u2014 but didn\u2019t specifically name Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears ahead of Tuesday\u2019s critical elections.<\/p>\n<p>In dozens of social media posts, the president threw his support behind both first time hopefuls and those seeking reelection, <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115482990032900099\" target=\"_blank\">including Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders<\/a>. Earle-Sears, facing off against Democrat Abigail Spanberger, was not mentioned by name among the 53 endorsements Trump issued Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The president, however, made clear that he hopes voters cast their ballots for the Republican candidates in Virginia and in New Jersey, where Jack Ciattarelli is in a heated battle against Mikie Sherrill for the governor\u2019s mansion. <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115408922697857899\" target=\"_blank\">Trump endorsed Ciattarelli in October<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would anyone vote for New Jersey and Virginia Gubernatorial Candidates, Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger, when they want transgender for everybody, men playing in women\u2019s sports, High Crime, and the most expensive Energy prices almost anywhere in the World?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115483014123680949\" target=\"_blank\">Trump said in one post<\/a>. \u201cVOTE REPUBLICAN for massive Energy Cost reductions, large scale Tax Cuts, and basic Common Sense!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has hedged around an official endorsement for Earle-Sears, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/winwithwinsome\/status\/1980275422374887917\" target=\"_blank\">telling reporters last month<\/a>that the \u201cRepublican candidate\u201d in Virginia should win \u201cbecause the Democrat candidate is a disaster.&#8221; Last week, the president joined the term-limited Gov. Glenn Youngkin for a virtual rally for the entire Virginia Republican ticket.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2025\/10\/03\/virginia-election-poll-spanberger-earle-sears\/\" target=\"_blank\">Some polling shows<\/a> Earle-Sears trails Spanberger by double digits.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the White House nor Earle-Sears campaign immediately responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump endorsed more than 50 Republicans on Sunday night \u2014 but didn\u2019t specifically name Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears ahead of Tuesday\u2019s critical elections. In dozens of social media posts, the president threw his support behind both first time hopefuls and those seeking reelection, including Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Earle-Sears, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}