Next week’s elections in Virginia and New Jersey offer voters a great opportunity to send a message that the era of weak leadership, radical leftist ideology, and moral confusion characterized by the Joe Biden-led Democrats is over. In both states, there are strong, principled conservatives running for governor who embody courage, common sense, and integrity. Winsome Earle-Sears in Virginia and Jack Ciattarelli in New Jersey represent the kind of leaders America needs right now – conservatives who love their country and their states, respect their people, and understand that government is meant to be limited and to work for the people, not the other way around.

While both have strong support from the grassroots conservatives in their states, there is a key difference in the two contests: in Virginia, Earle-Sears is trying to win a race to maintain GOP control over the governor’s mansion and keep moving forward, while in New Jersey, Ciattarelli is trying to win a race to overturn Democrat control over the governor’s mansion and reverse the Garden State’s course of the last eight years.

In Virginia, Earle-Sears has already made history. As the Commonwealth’s first black female lieutenant governor, she has shown what true leadership looks like – she has been humble, disciplined, and fearless in supporting the agenda of popular Governor Glenn Youngkin. A Marine veteran, small business owner, and immigrant who worked her way up from nothing, Earle-Sears is a testament to the American Dream. She doesn’t divide people by race or class. She unites them around the values that make America exceptional: faith, family, freedom, and hard work.

And she has never been afraid to speak the truth, even when the media tried to caricature her as “too conservative” for modern Virginia. She

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