The MeidasTouch Podcast
Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Wed, 26 Feb 2025
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republican Governors becoming toxic as their voters are fed up with them and Trump and Meiselas talks with the Democratic candidate for Governor of Virginia Abigail Spanberger. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Are Republican Governors Hurting Their Own Constituents?
So are Republican governors just attacking like their own constituents now who are losing their jobs because of Donald Trump and Elon Musk? Let me show you what's going on in Virginia, where their Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, is like celebrating the fact that thousands of Virginians are losing their job as a result of Trump and Musk and Doge. Actually, this is what
And Youngkin said in his own words, he's cheering on these cuts.
Play this clip. Talk about this federal workforce downsizing. What are you doing to prevent these jobs from losing from losing jobs in the first place?
Well, let me just begin with the fact is that I don't believe that the federal government downsizing is wrong. And in fact, we need to press forward and drive efficiencies in our federal government. And as a result of driving those efficiencies, I do expect that some Virginians will lose their job.
I don't know. Is it the whole role of like the governor supposed to be to fight for like your state? I don't know. It's like in a sports team. Could you imagine like the coach rooting against the team? You know, I'm the Lakers coach, but I'm really hoping that the New York Knicks win this game. I think that I'd like to see that it'll be more efficient for us. What is going on?
Oh, and then Young can set up this website, which adds insult to injury. Virginia has jobs. And when you go through this, by the way, I'm not even sure if that's an AI image or people in Europe or what this image even is. But then you look at it and it sends you to LinkedIn and Indeed and basically says, good luck.
All right, I got to bring in Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, Democrat who's running for governor in Virginia. I look at that as like the craziest, like disappointing, crazy. You're running for governor in Virginia. What do you make of it?
I think the governor of Virginia has a primary job, and that is to stand up for Virginians and to stand up for Virginia.
And what is just unbelievable at this moment is that our governor and our lieutenant governor, who's my opponent in our November 2025 race, are doing neither, excusing the fact that Virginians who work hard, Virginians who serve our country, that they are losing their jobs, have already lost them, and are fearful that tomorrow might be the day they get that that fateful email.
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Chapter 2: What is Glenn Youngkin's Stance on Federal Workforce Downsizing?
There might be some strategy to that. I do think there's a, quote, method to the madness of buttering up a dictator who very much enjoys that to then find some sort of deal that is friendlier on your terms than maybe it would have been. Yes, I think.
What's your response to that?
There's no such thing as method to the madness in the national security realm. The reality is that that vote was a shameful vote. We are the United States of America. We have been that shining city on a hill. We are the beacon of freedom. We are the oldest democracy in the world.
The fact that we, through our vote at the United Nations, would side with Russia and North Korea against our ally Ukraine as they fight, and they just hit the third anniversary of their fight for their freedom, it is just shameful. And it is astounding because for anyone who has come up, not just in the national security space, but anybody who lived through the 80s, right?
The Russians, the Soviets before them, they are not the side we want to be taking. And for all of our democratic allies across Europe and across Asia to join together in rebuking Russia and standing up for Ukraine, And we back away from that? Like, we are denying our own strength. The strength of the United States has always been in our ability to lead.
And whatever she was talking about in that interview, it wasn't, there's no method. It's just madness. And it is hurting our own national security. It is hurting our long-term partnerships with our friends and allies. And it is, it's just unthinkable, frankly. But it is the reality of where we are in this moment.
And I, my hope is that every American who remembers what it means that we are the country that defeated the Nazis, right? We are the people who helped lead to the end of the fall of the Soviet Union. And we watched the demise of communism. Like, that is us. Here we have in the United Nations, we've aligned ourselves with those authoritarian dictatorships. It's terrible.
Now, final question, you're campaigning for governor. You were a member of Congress and you had to give up that seat as part of running for governor. So, you know, you can campaign. You can tell people what your platform is, what you're going to do. And I'm sure people are asking you on the campaign trail. What what can we do?
And I think people are looking for just like what can we do as people right now? So when they ask you, what can we do? What's your message to the people of the Commonwealth and to just Americans in general who who feel a little bit powerless right now, but but want to take action?
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