Overview

• The top three GOP candidates—Winsome Earle-Sears, John Reid and Jason Miyares—held their first joint rally on July 2 in Vienna to showcase ticket unity ahead of the November election.
• Speakers underscored a platform focused on low taxes, deregulation and extending the policy gains of the Youngkin administration.
• Earle-Sears continues to trail Democrat Abigail Spanberger in fundraising and lacks the personal wealth to self-fund her campaign.
• Republicans pointed to the ticket’s diversity, featuring an immigrant Marine veteran gubernatorial nominee, the potential first gay statewide officeholder and a Cuban-descent attorney general.
• Protesters outside the firehouse decried proposed federal Medicaid cuts that could strip coverage from more than 300,000 Virginians.