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Why Fox News is so mad at Abigail Spanberger

Virginia’s new governor accused of bait-and-switch by right-wing media

Published April 15, 2026 9:15AM (EDT)

Any time a Democrat comes along who dares to fight back, the Republican outrage machine goes to work. Political ​​toughness becomes “divisiveness” and governing is made scandalous. That’s exactly what is happening right now to Abigail Spanberger.

A former CIA officer who flipped a swing House district in northern Virginia twice, Spanberger has now been governor of the commonwealth for roughly four months. She is the first woman to hold that office after winning in November with 57% of the vote, the highest share for any Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Virginia since Albertis Harrison in 1961. She gave the Democratic Party’s response to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in February. And now the spin machine has kicked into overdrive.

Led by Fox News, which published 11 stories critical of Spanberger in the past week, the right has unleashed its full media arsenal on the Democrat. The central charge is that the governor, after campaigning as a moderate, has quickly revealed herself to be a tax-and-spend liberal and a radical ideologue. “She campaigned as........

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