Lt. Gov.-elect Winsome Sears is the “American dream” incarnate, she said.
Sears, a Marine veteran running with Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, defeated Democratic state Del. Hala Ayala on Tuesday, 50.7% to 48.6%, in Virginia. She is the first black woman to win the position.
“We’re framing too many issues in terms of race, and it just continues to divide us. And unfortunately, politicians are using it as a tool … to advance their nefarious purposes,” she said Wednesday. “If we stop just looking at race and just [start] looking at people — because I’m destroying all the narratives about race. Look at me. Look at me. I am a heartbeat away from the governorship in case anything happens to the governor.”
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“How are you going to tell me that I’m a victim? And I didn’t do anything special to get here except stay in school and study,” she told Fox News. “I took advantage of the opportunities that are available here in America.”
She said that when she went to college, she had three children younger than 5.
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“No one can say to me I don’t know what it is to be poor,” Sears said. “You’re looking at the American dream.”
She commented on migrants trying to get across the border, adding that the immigration system isn’t without its flaws. Sears is from Jamaica.
“You can see those people at the border right now trying to get in — they’re dying to get in — because they know if they can put a foot on American soil, the trajectory of their lives will change, just as it did for my father,” she said.
