'Couldn't bother to show up': Virginia Republican slammed for ditching bus stop tour event

Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears was called out by her Democratic opponent, former Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), for bailing on her own campaign stop on a bus tour.

Speaking in Wytheville, a small town in southwestern Virginia, Earl-Sers wasn't there, although her campaign bus was.

Earle-Sears "couldn’t even bother to show up to her own bus tour stop in Wytheville," needle.

Spanberger is winning by 12 points in the latest polls, according to "270 to Win," from a Sept. 18 poll. An average of all polls taken from Feb. 26 to Sept. 14 calculates Spanberger winning by seven points, said "Real Clear Politics." And the lowest polls Sanberger has had for 2025 put her winning by four points.

Republican districts have a lead in early voting, however, according to the Virginia Mercury.

Spanberger's campaign shared a video of her surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd of supporters.

"Union workers with Service Employees International Union of Virginia and other community members stood alongside the campaign event attendees — which did not include an appearance by Earle-Sears herself," reported local WHSV news.