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Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger on Friday defended her new ad targeting Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears’ opposition to abortion, despite Sen. Bernie Sanders recently warning former Vice President Kamala Harris that focusing on the issue could hurt her chances.

In Harris’ new book, “107 Days,” she wrote that Sanders warned her: “please focus on the working class, not just on abortion,” and that he told her he supported then-President Joe Biden because he focused on economic issues.

Harris went on to lose all seven swing states and return the White House to President Donald Trump.

Spanberger’s ad begins with a clip from an Earle-Sears rally while a narrator calls her a “MAGA Republican,” and said: she wants a “near-tot

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