VIRGINIA – Yesterday, Virginia Democrats launched three billboards along I-64 highlighting Winsome Earle-Sears downplaying and defending the Trump Administration’s attacks on Virginia jobs. With nearly 52,000 federal employees, the Hampton Roads region is home to the third largest number of federal employees in the country. 

What Virginians are Reading: 

The Virginia Scope: From the trail: Democrats attack Earle-Sears with billboards

• Virginia Democrats launched three billboards along I-64 that they say are “highlighting Winsome Earle-Sears downplaying and defending the Trump Administration’s attacks on Virginia jobs.”
• The billboards read “Winsome Earle-Sears doesn’t care about 53,394 and counting unemployed Virginians.”
• They also include Sears’ comments on the attacks on jobs from a closed-door event where she said, “It happens all the time… And the media is making it out to be a huge, huge thing, and I don’t understand why.”

Politico: Weekly Score

• Democrats in Virginia are plastering Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears’ face on billboards alongside the number of federal workers who have been impacted by mass federal layoffs.
•  “Winsome Earle-Sears doesn’t care about 53,394 and counting unemployed Virginians,” read the three billboards, which will be along I-64 in Hampton Roads, per the state’s Democratic Party.

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