Winsome Sears Drops Some Words of Wisdom Just a Few Weeks out From Inauguration Day – Opinion

Virginia’s Lt. Gov.-Elect Winsome Sears (R) has become legendary in conservative circles for pushing back hard on Democrat/media-driven narratives about her state and black voters, and also clearly enjoys that fact that she doesn’t fit into the little political box The Usual Suspects enjoy putting minority voters in.

We haven’t heard much from her or about her in the last month or so as she’s been busy preparing for her new position as well as connecting and reconnecting with the people she’s is getting ready to serve in her role as the first black female elected to statewide office in Virginia history.

Sears was recently interviewed by the New York Times. Though you wouldn’t think it would be a fair write-up, they actually did her justice. In the article, the Times detailed some of Sears’s fascinating backstory and also shared her thoughts on how the minority vote is undeniably shifting away from Democrats and how Republicans need to move in order to capitalize on it in future elections:

“The message is important,” Ms. Sears, 57, said over a lunch of Jamaican oxtail with her transition team at a restaurant near the State Capitol. “But the messenger is equally important.”
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But Ms. Sears insists that many Black and immigrant voters naturally side with Republicans on a variety of issues — and that some are starting to realize that.

“The only way to change things is to win elections,” she said. “And who better to help make that change but me? I look like the strategy.”
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Republicans [in Virginia]According to her, they rarely tried to end the old ties that existed between Black voters in the Democratic Party and Black voters. This is why she ran for the election this year.

“I just took a look at the field, and said, ‘My God, we’re gonna lose again,’” she said. “Nobody was going to reach out to the various communities that needed to be heard from: women, immigrants, you know, Latinos, Asians, Blacks, etc.”

Another thing she suggested was that Democrats tend to place too much emphasis on race. Republicans must be prepared to discuss it as well to rectify past errors and to admit to them.

“If the Democrats are always going to talk about race, then let’s talk about it,” she told the paper.

The Times’ also detailed the “warning signs” Sears pointed to for Democrats on the issue of minority voters:

Although Black Virginians overwhelmingly supported Terry McAuliffe as the Democratic nominee to governor, an analysis showed a decline in Democratic support from Black men compared with 2020’s presidential election. Notable declines in Democratic support were also noted among Latino and Asian voters.

We’ve written previously about the slow but steady erosion of support for Democrats among Hispanic, black, and Asian voters, a drop that seemed to pick up steam during the Trump years and which has continued since then, most recently in the Virginia elections, as noted above, and the California recall election back in September.

As for Sears’s advice for the GOP, I think it’s spot on. Though some might think she’s suggesting playing the types of identity politics games the right hates, I think what she’s doing here is to try and get Republicans to “cancel” such games by running more candidates who look like the voters they want to appeal to, which could have the intended effect of reminding those voters that you don’t haveYou don’t have to be a particular way of thinking politically because you are what you see.

In other words, what they’d be saying is that contra the left’s/media’s narratives, it’s okay if you’re a conservative who happens to be black, Hispanic, Asian, a woman, etc. Your opinion is just as important.

On down the line, this is a strategy that would have a devastating impact on the left’s ability to play the race and gender cards It worked!For the left. They’ve been using them to manipulate the minority vote for decades, and yet there have been signs going back the last several years that the strategy is backfiring. Because as it turns out, there is significant degree of correlation between backfiring and how much more “woke” the Democratic party has become.

Already, the Democratic grip on the minorities vote is eroding. If they lose much more of it, many more elections in normally “safe” Democrat parts of the country are going to be harder for them to win – which is a big reason why the push is on in blue states for aggressive gerrymandering.

I didn’t think I’d ever see them lose their stranglehold on their key voting blocs in my lifetime. It is actually happening, and I’m happy to say so. Not as fast as we’d like it to, but it is happening. The trickle of Democrats’ voters will eventually look like a dam burst. I’ve seen enough to say the Democrats are in trouble in future elections. Deep trouble.

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