Former narcotics cop and CIA officer turned Democratic politician in Virginia. In 2018 she flipped a House of Representatives seat long held by Republicans. In Congress she rebuked Democrats for calling to "defund the police" and said that Joe Biden's New Deal-inspired ambitions went too far. Biden later greeted her on a phone call saying: "Hello Abigail, it's President Roosevelt."
Ms Spanberger won the Virginia governor's race in November 2025, defeating Winsome Earle-Sears, the state's Republican lieutenant-governor, by a 15-point margin—larger than expected, outperforming Kamala Harris's 2024 margin by about nine percentage points. Virginia saw a record turnout in a gubernatorial race. Her stump speech focused on Virginia's economy, with weekly position papers on health care, housing and tariffs.
Since setting her sights on Richmond, she has styled herself as "vanilla, but in a thoughtful way", according to J. Miles Coleman of the Centre for Politics at the University of Virginia.
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