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PolitiFact: Is Sears Wrong On First Republican Convention Claim?
FILE PHOTO: Winsome Sears, Republican candidate for Lt. Governor, is the first Black woman to be nominated by either party for statewide office in Virginia. (Image: Winsome Sears Campaign Video)
Winsome Sears, the GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, says she wants to convince African-Americans to return “to our roots” in the Republican Party.
“The very first Republican convention after the Civil War was held in Virginia in a Black church,” she said during a May 13 interview on Fox News. There was a picture of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, on the bookcase behind her.