Conservatives rip Virginia governor's ‘moderate’ label after radical laundry list of Day 1 moves

By Fox News · Fox News

Newly sworn-in Democratic Party Governor Abigail Spanberger wasted no time implementing her party's priorities and getting rid of Republicans' now that she is the head honcho in Virginia. A long list of moves by Spanberger and Virginia Democrats, who now have a trifecta in the state with control of the governor's office and both branches of the state legislature, were criticized by Republicans, several of whom chastised Spanberger for campaigning as a moderate but then ushering in radical policies. "Screw any and all of you who lied to low-information voters and sold Abigail Spanberger as some kind of moderate," complained Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late United States senator, John McCain. "She’s been in office like 6 hours and is already trying to turn Virginia into Minneapolis." SPANBERGER SIGNALS LEFT BENT AFTER CENTRIST CAMPAIGN; GOP LEADER WARNS OF ‘FAIRFAXING THE REST OF VA' "But but but… I'm old enough to remember ‘moderate’ candidate Spanberger who ran ads talking about crime, touting her law enforcement experience with her retired cop father," former NRCC executive director Rob Simms posted on X. "She's a fraud, has always been a fraud, will always be a fraud." Fox News host Mark Levin took to X to say that Spanberger "lied through her teeth" on the campaign trail about her "moderate" positions and said she has been "moving at high speed to permanently radicalize and change the state." "Abigail Spanberger is no moderate. Sick stuff," James Laverty, the communications director for Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., said on X. Among Spanberger's campaign promises was to commit to rescinding former Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin's executive order requiring Virginia law enforcement to help work with federal law enforcement as they carry out their immigration enforcement activities. On Saturday, as she signed 10 new executive orders shortly after being sworn in, Spanberger rescinded that order from the former GOP administration. "State and local law enforceme…