SUTHERLIN, Va. (WDBJ) - Winsome Earle-Sears was fresh from the State Capitol and the special redistricting session when she rolled into Sutherlin Tuesday night.

“We have an election to win. November is coming.”

A crowd of about 150 people welcomed the Lieutenant Governor to the venue between Danville and South Boston, an area where Earle-Sears must rack up the votes to compete with Democratic majorities in northern Virginia.

“We have the momentum. We have enthusiasm. We stand for common sense. My opponent Abigail Spanberger stands for nonsense. We don’t want that here,” she told the crowd.

Sears was born in Jamaica and moved to the United States when she was six years old.

Today, she is 61 and married with three children.

“I’m not a typical politician,” Earle-Sears says in one of her

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