Hard-right LaRock files for Va. governor, promises 'Virginia DOGE'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : "After he was shot, I heard him say: 'God has saved my life and he has saved my life for a purpose.
58% : " Earle-Sears avidly supported Trump in 2016 and 2020 but said it was time for the GOP to turn the page in 2022, in the aftermath of midterm elections in which Trump-backed candidates underperformed.
51% : She got back on board with Trump last year after he survived an assassination attempt and two weeks ago publicly made peace with a pro-Trump radio host.
49% : LaRock promised to create a government-slashing "Virginia DOGE" -- a reference to Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service and its frenetic efforts to slash federal spending and the federal workforce -- while questioning whether Earle-Sears is the right candidate for a statewide race.
48% : Earle-Sears, who had traveled the country for Trump in 2020 as chairwoman of Black Americans to Re-elect the President, told Fredericks that even in 2022, she praised Trump's economic and educational policies.
45% : Like all Virginia governors, Youngkin is prohibited by the state constitution from seeking a second consecutive term.
41% : Virginia has rejected Trump in all three of his presidential bids, but he made inroads in the state last year with some suburbanites and minorities.
37% : Some admirers appreciated her blunt assessment of Trump in 2022, but her stance could cut both ways in a state where the president has been unpopular with the general electorate but has maintained an iron grip on GOP primary voters.
34% : "LaRock is all in on restricting women's reproductive freedom, stripping resources from public schools, and making life worse for Virginia's working families.
32% : Fredericks played a clip of Earle-Sears on Fox Business at the time saying that Trump had become a "liability" to the party and that it was time for him to "step off the stage" and invited her to explain.
30% : Earle-Sears said her opinion on that front changed after Trump survived an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally in July -- suggesting that the episode had changed him.
20% : Earle-Sears appeared on Fredericks's radio show Feb. 12 to patch things up with the host, who described their relationship as "frosty" since she broke with Trump in 2022.

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