Blue Virginia Weekly News Roundup (5/4/25)

Earle-Sears Campaigns with Extremist Project 2025 Architect; Youngkin Vetoes Right to Contraception Act; Updates on VA GOP's Civil War; “The governor is incapable of ever compromising or saying yes”

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• Video: On CNN, Sen. Mark Warner Calls Out North Korea-Style Trump Cabinet Meeting; Says to His GOP Colleagues, “I don’t want to be your conscience, I want you to VOTE your conscience” and Start “stepping up”

• TONIGHT: Winsome Earle-Sears to Campaign with Kevin Roberts, Far-Right Architect of Project 2025

• Are Virginia Democratic Straw Polls Predictive? Sometimes, But…Here Are 10 of the Worst Misses Since 2008

• Fmr. VA Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R) re: Trump’s (Unconstitutional) Assault on PBS, NPR Funding: “We really need the Supreme Court to clarify what a President can and cannot do via Executive Order”

• Youngkin Vetoes Right to Contraception Act for Second Consecutive Year

• After Youngkin Announces Budget Actions, VA Senate Majority Leader Surovell Says “The governor is incapable of ever compromising or saying yes”

• On the Anniversary of the Leaked Dobbs Decision, Remember Winsome Earle-Sears Has a Dangerous Record on Reproductive Rights

• Sen. Mark Warner Leads Coalition of Senior US Senate Democrats “demanding an investigation into reports that…Musk has used his government role to improperly advance his personal business interests abroad”

• On First Day of Primary Early Voting, Spanberger Encourages Virginians to Make Their Voices Heard

• Video: Sen. Tim Kaine to El Salvador’s Government – “You might think it’s cute to grab attention by a bromance President Trump,” But “We will remember this forever”

• Video: Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA08) After Attending Hearing on Dr. Badar Khan Suri - “It is Kafkaesque when somebody can be kidnapped without reason, without acknowledgment, without logic, without charges”

• Rozia Henson, the First Openly Gay Black Man Elected to the VA House of Delegates, Says He’s “‘morally opposed’ to the Lieutenant Governor’s demonstration of poor leadership” (After news of her comments on being “morally opposed” to marriage equality)

• Led by Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA11), House Oversight Dems Demand Musk’s Financial Disclosure, SF-86, etc. to “Examine His Conflicts of Interest and Liabilities, Including Ties to China and Russia”

• Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says “I believe things will get better, but boy oh it has been a rough first quarter for America”

• Glenn Youngkin Dismisses Economic Pain Trump is Causing Virginians, Justifying Attacks on Workforce

• Fmr. VA LG Bill Bolling (R) on Winsome Earle-Sears’ Statement re: John Reid Controversy: “Say what? I’m not really sure what this statement means”

• Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Speaks on US Senate Floor in Advance of Vote on His Legislation to End Trump’s Global Tariffs

• Video: Democratic Elected Officials Call Out Trump’s Destruction of Virginia’s Workforce and Economy During First 100 Days

• Throughout Trump’s First 100 Days, Winsome Earle-Sears Cheered on Trump’s Devastating Agenda Instead of Fighting for Virginians

• Video: Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA09) Says He Hopes “Somebody’s Doing Polling,” Because at This Point “it would be very very difficult for [John Reid] to be able to win the race”

• Abigail Spanberger: “President Trump and Republican Lawmakers Are Willfully Threatening Virginians’ Access to Care by Putting Medicaid Funding in the Crosshairs”

• Day #6 of the VA GOP’s Bitter Civil War: Youngkin, Earle-Sears Appear to Throw in the Towel; WaPo Columnist Wonders If “bigotry trumps ideology in the Republican Party”

• DNC War Room – “100 Days of Trump: Crashing Economy, Crashing Approvals”

• Ranking Members Gerry Connolly, Jamie Raskin, and Bennie Thompson Demand Trump Administration Provide the Contract They Crafted with El Salvador to House Hundreds of Migrants in Brutal Mega-Prison

• Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says “100 Days In [of Trump Administration Part 2], Costs Chaos and Corruption Are All Rising”; Vows “I’ve got a hell of a lot of fight left in me”

• Days After Glenn Youngkin Calls for Presumptive VA GOP Lt. Gov. Nominee John Reid to Step Aside, Reid Sends Cease-and-Desists Letter, Makes Comparison to Justin Fairfax Situation, Says He “will not be abused or blackmailed!! By ANYONE.”

• Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA11) Announces: “the cancer, while initially beaten back, has now returned”; “The sun is setting on my time in public service, and this will be my last term in Congress”

• Video: Trump’s Former VA Campaign Chair Says “Youngkin is going to ostracize [Reid] from the ticket, which means that Reid is going to get blown out and can’t raise money”

• Fmr. Governor/Senator George Allen (R), Fmr. VA Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R) Agree: “Tariffs are nothing more than indirect taxation on our own people”; Presidents Can’t Legally Do So Without Congress.

• Billboard Campaign Slams Winsome Earle-Sears in Hampton Roads for Dismissing Attacks on Virginia Jobs