{"id":55894,"date":"2025-10-23T08:56:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/trump-yet-to-endorse-in-va-governors-race-but-also-kept-youngkin-at-arms-length\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:56:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:56:26","slug":"trump-yet-to-endorse-in-va-governors-race-but-also-kept-youngkin-at-arms-length","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/trump-yet-to-endorse-in-va-governors-race-but-also-kept-youngkin-at-arms-length\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump yet to endorse in VA governor’s race \u2013 but also kept Youngkin at arm’s length"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> maintains he\u2019s steering clear of Virginia politics, but his in-flight remarks about Winsome Earle-Sears are prompting questions about whether he\u2019s backing her after all.<\/p>\n

The president has issued a full-throated endorsement for Attorney General Jason Miyares<\/a>\u2019 reelection bid but has stopped short of doing so for Earle-Sears or lieutenant governor nominee John Reid.<\/p>\n

He has notably endorsed New Jersey Republican gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli as a “winner” with a “complete and total endorsement” \u2013 and that “after getting to know and understand MAGA, [Ciattarelli] has gone all-in.”<\/p>\n

At a White House event<\/a> in which he hosted outgoing Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Trump wished him “good luck with the upcoming election” and said the fellow former business executive has been “working very hard” for the candidates.<\/p>\n

JAY JONES INVOKES TRUMP NEARLY 50 TIMES DURING VIRGINIA AG DEBATE, TIES MIYARES TO \u2018MAGA\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“He wants to see that young woman win,” Trump said of Youngkin, appearing to refer to Earle-Sears.<\/p>\n

“And the attorney general who I endorsed.”<\/p>\n

After the Jay Jones murder-texts scandal<\/a> broke, Trump called on the Norfolk Democrat to drop out “immediately” and said Virginia must “continue to have a GREAT (sic) attorney general in Jason Miyares who by the way has my complete and total endorsement.”<\/p>\n

SPANBERGER USES SPONGEBOB TO MOCK SEARS-TRUMP RELATIONSHIP, AS PRESIDENT PRAISES GOP NOM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Jason will never let you down,” Trump said.<\/p>\n

When asked in June about appealing to moderate voters while running in Trump\u2019s party, Reid told Hampton Roads\u2019 ABC affiliate that he is running his own race.<\/p>\n

“Donald Trump’s in D.C. John Reid’s in Richmond, and I’m looking to help Virginia, and so, if you love Donald Trump, awesome. If you hate Donald Trump, I really don’t intend to argue with you. I want to save Virginia and that\u2019s why I\u2019m running,” Reid said.<\/p>\n

TRUMP NOT ON BALLOT, BUT PRESIDENT FRONT AND CENTER IN 2025 ELECTIONS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This week, Trump again obliquely complimented Earle-Sears<\/a> while speaking to reporters on Air Force One \u2013 but declined again to issue a Miyares-type “total endorsement.”<\/p>\n

TRUMP VOICES SUPPORT FOR GOP GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE, ADMITS SHE HAS ‘TOUGH RACE’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“I haven\u2019t been too much involved in Virginia — I love the state; I did very well in the state \u2026 I think the Republican candidate is very good, and she should win because the Democrat candidate is a disaster,” he said.<\/p>\n

He warned that both Spanberger and Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J. \u2013 the Democratic nominee in the Garden State \u2013 will preeminently be bad for the current U.S. energy dominance agenda.<\/p>\n

“Both the Democrats<\/a> are going to drive the energy prices through the roof,” he said.<\/p>\n

Trump also faulted Spanberger for refusing to directly call for Jones\u2019 ouster.<\/p>\n

THE ONLY GOP GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES RUNNING IN 2025 ELECTIONS LEAN INTO TRUMP’S MAGA CAMPAIGN TACTICS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for clarity on whether Trump\u2019s comments thus far have equated to an endorsement or whether he plans to offer one in the closing days, but did not receive a response.<\/p>\n

When reached as well, the Republican National Committee<\/a> indicated they were not at liberty to discuss the presidential prerogative in endorsements.<\/p>\n

Earle-Sears, however, said she looks forward to working with Trump as governor to continue Republican policies focused on public safety, energy costs to Virginians<\/a> and conservative values \u2013 and that Trump has indeed been supportive of her bid.<\/p>\n

“I am deeply grateful for President Trump\u2019s support and his direct encouragement to voters in Virginia to vote Republican,” she said.<\/p>\n

“We must ensure Virginia is the best place to live, work and raise a family and, with President Trump, I\u2019ll fight to keep energy costs low, keep our families safe and defend our commonsense values.”<\/p>\n

Sources have pointed to Youngkin\u2019s own success<\/a> brought on by keeping Trump at arm\u2019s length during his own hard-fought campaign against Terry McAuliffe in a closely-divided state.<\/p>\n

Youngkin\u2019s messaging in predominantly Democratic northern Virginia and the I-95 corridor focused on issues like biological males in girls sports and parents\u2019 rights that could and did draw crossover votes from Virginia voters not inclined to support someone associated with Trump.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, on the other end of the state, Youngkin campaigned<\/a> on broader conservative or Trumpian tenets and successfully ran up the score in friendlier southside and southwest Virginia, where turnout in those less-populated counties was elevated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump maintains he\u2019s steering clear of Virginia politics, but his in-flight remarks about Winsome Earle-Sears are prompting questions about whether he\u2019s backing her after all. The president has issued a full-throated endorsement for Attorney General Jason Miyares\u2019 reelection bid but has stopped short of doing so for Earle-Sears or lieutenant governor nominee John … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}