'They really don't have the solutions': Ex-Marine Winsome Sears tears into Democrats for assuming they will always get the black vote and says her election as Virginia's first black Lieutenant Governor proves America is 'all about freedom'
The first black person elected as lieutenant governor of Virginia in the commonwealth's 400-year legislative history has criticized Democrats for failing to listen to black voters, and taking them for granted.
Winsome Sears, 57, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and arrived in the United States when she was six. She grew up in the Bronx, entered the Marines as an electrician, and ran a homeless shelter before entering Virginia politics in 2001.
On Wednesday, the day after her historic election, Sears told Fox News's Sean Hannity that she ran as a Republican because the Democrats were complacent about black voters.
'The Democrats, they really don't have the solutions,' she told Hannity.
Winsome Sears, the first black person elected as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, said on Wednesday night that her election was a repudiation of Democrat policies
Sears told Hannity that results mattered more than political allegiance, and communities should not allow politics to divide them
Lieutenant Governor-elect Winsome Sears joins Sean Hannity for a powerful interview following her historic win. pic.twitter.com/pZ85LlvRye
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'And so when you look at the Democrat run cities, the Democrat run counties, states, they are losing.
'The neighborhoods are the worst, the schools of the worst. Everything, it is the worst.
'And so they moved from Democrat led states, come to Republican led states and they ruin it - forgetting, when you came here, it was fine and now it has changed because you brought the same policies with you that ruined the state you just left.'
Sears was speaking after the state elected Glenn Youngkin as governor - the first Republican to win statewide office since 2009.
Sears is seen on Tuesday night, at an election party in Chantilly, Virginia
Sears is seen on Tuesday night with Glenn Youngkin, who was elected the next governor of Virginia
Sears said that her role was to be 'a heartbeat away' for all his decisions.
And she said the trouncing of Democrats in the state was due to taking their vote for granted.
'When you look at a birth certificate for a black child, does it say you must vote Democrat every time, all the time?' she asked.
Sears is pictured as a Marine, having signed up after leaving high school
'Otherwise you are not black?
'And for the white child, does it say you can vote any way that you want, any choice that you want, always and forever?
'Who made up those rules for us?'
Sears said that the point of the United States was being free to choose your political allegiance.
'This is America, this is freedom,' she said.
'Who died and left you in charge of all of us as black people so that we could be corralled into doing what you want us to do?
'I thought you said that you were the tolerant folks.
'If you are tolerant, that means you will allow other ideas to percolate.
'You don't want just ideas that you agree with, because then, you see, we wouldn't be living in America, we would be living in a totally different country. Nobody wants that.'
Sears is pictured on the campaign trail on September 1 in McLean
Sears said that Richard Nixon was among the first to champion black businesses, pointing out that political party was less important than results, and unity.
'All of this time it appears that Nixon was a homeboy,' she joked.
'What we are going to do is we need someone who has sensible ideas, sensible solutions, because the message is important but the messenger is equally important and what I want to say to black people, Asian people, whatever, minorities, Latinos, whatever, don't allow political parties to divide us.
'Don't allow political parties to use whatever grievances that have been historically against you to force you to look at them as the savior so that they can swoop in and think they are saving you when all they are doing is pitting one race against the other, one race against of the other.'
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