VIRGINIA – With today marking the first day that candidates can file signatures to get on the ballot, a mobile billboard truck highlighting the intensifying GOP primary for governor was seen circling the Virginia Department of Elections. This comes off a week of attacks lobbed by former Delegate Dave LaRock and former Senator Amanda Chase at their primary opponent, Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears. 

The billboard read, “The GOP Nominee for Governor will be Chaotic. Extreme. Bad for Virginia.”

Photos and b-roll  are available for media use here. 

Read more about the intense Republican primary for Governor:

• Former Virginia Trump Campaign Chair John Fredericks said Sears fired her strategy firm, Poolhouse—the same firm behind Glenn Youngkin in 2021—and replaced them with Coldspark, the media firm behind Nikki Haley’s failed presidential bid. The Washington Examiner exposed how the already flailing Sears campaign is rapidly falling apart, plagued by problems and “faces setbacks.” 

• Reporting from Virginia Scope details how Winsome Earle-Sears campaign staffers boasted about private conversations with Donald Trump’s political team and declared that Sears is more conservative than Trump. According to the report, the staffers also trashed Sears’ primary challengers, former Delegate Dave LaRock and former Senator Amanda Chase. 

• In an interview with Virginia Scope, Amanda Chase called out Winsome Earle-Sears’ flailing campaign for having significant issues, confirmed she’s on track to qualify for the primary, and teased an endorsement from Donald Trump. 

• In an interview with former Trump Co-Chair John Fredericks, LaRock slammed Winsome Earle-Sears for being unable to unite the Virginia GOP and having no track record to run on, and if that wasn’t tough enough for Sears, LaRock then repeated the same attacks again and again.  

• During an interview on the John Fredericks show, Sears hurled insults at her opponents calling LaRock “extremely bitter,” and a liar, and made a personal attack on Chase, telling her to “get a grip.”  

• During an interview with WMAL, LaRock called Sears “extremely divisive,” accused her of having an inability to unite the base because she is “a talker, not a doer,” and suggested he thinks Sears has “already given up” on winning the general election. 

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