Abigail Spanberger will become Virginia’s first female governor after defeating Republican rival Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears on Tuesday by the largest margin of any Democratic candidate in the state in decades. With an estimated 95 percent of the vote in on Tuesday night, Spanberger had 57.4 percent compared to 42.4 percent for Earle-Sears. Spanberger’s victory on Tuesday flipped Virginia’s governorship from red to blue, bringing Democrats in the state and across the country a