Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) left the door open to working with President-elect Donald Trump in the future while reiterating his plans to have a strong final year as governor.
Youngkin’s political future remains unknown because Virginia governors cannot run for consecutive terms. Speculations regarding his possible next steps range from a 2026 Senate run to a role in Trump’s Cabinet. When asked about these possibilities, which also include a future presidential run, the Virginia governor underscored his aim to “finish strong” in his final year in office to ensure the state can “continue to soar.”
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“We’ll see what’s next,” Youngkin told Fox News Digital. “I told the president when I called him and told him that I wanted to finish my term, that I would be available to help him at any time while I’m governor and afterwards.”
The governor was then pressed on if he was ruling out any of these possibilities, to which he said, “We’ll see what happens.”
With Virginia’s 2025 gubernatorial election coming up next year, Youngkin was asked if he believes Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, currently the only candidate in the Republican Party’s primary, is “too far to the right” for Virginia. Youngkin contended he is “not at all” worried about this, calling Sears “a commonsense conservative” he has worked with since they were elected in 2021.
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Youngkin endorsed Sears’s gubernatorial run Monday, describing her as “an outstanding lieutenant governor” who would be a “great” governor. He also endorsed state Attorney General Jason Miyares’s reelection bid, which Miyares announced earlier in the day.
As of Wednesday, the only Democrat seeking Youngkin’s seat in 2025 is Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA). For the role of attorney general, there are two Democrats in the party’s primary: former Democratic state Del. Jay Jones and Shannon Taylor, the Commonwealth’s attorney for Henrico County.