US EditionPressure Mounts on Virginia AG Nominee Jay Jones After Violent 2022 Texts Surface
Jay Jones apologized for violent 2022 texts targeting Republican Todd Gilbert and his children amid bipartisan backlash just weeks before the Virginia Attorney General election.
- Democratic candidate Jay Jones faced pressure to withdraw after violent texts directed at Republican Todd Gilbert were revealed.
- President Donald Trump and Republicans called for Jones to quit the race, labeling his comments as unacceptable.
- Jones has apologized for remarks he made in a 2022 text exchange, which included wishing harm on Gilbert's family.
- His opponent criticized a Democratic gubernatorial candidate for supporting Jones, which has become a focal point in the campaign.
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Democrats stand by their man despite vicious texts wishing death on GOP rival and his kids
Democratic politicians are in lockstep in refusing to call on Virginia attorney general nominee Jay Jones to end his race despite the release of disturbing text messages advocating for violence against a Republican lawmaker and his children. In the leaked text exchange with Republican House Delegate Carrie Coyner from August 2022, Jones presented a hypothetical scenario in which he had two bullets and had to choose between shooting then-House Sp…
Even Democrat Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro Calls Virginia AG Candidate Jay Jones Texts ‘Reprehensible and Inexcusable’
(Just The News)—After Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family escaped a firebombing at his Harrisburg residence earlier this year, the first-term Democrat’s calls for civility amid multiplying acts of political violence have drawn national attention. And on Tuesday, he extended the message of moral clarity to the fallout of disturbing text messages sent by a fellow Democrat running for Virginia attorney general that were released on Oct. 3, two weeks …
Just kidding? Violence against conservatives not a big deal for Democrat Left
by WorldTribune Staff, October 7, 2025 Real World News The Democrat nominee for attorney general in Virginia said he fantasized about the state legislature’s Republican leader being shot and his children dying. A posse of 10 vehicles surrounds and terrorizes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents deployed to Chicago. A Biden-appointed judge gives the man […]
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RGA Drops $1.5M in Va. Gov Race Amid Scandal
Republicans are not ready to concede the Virginia governor's race just yet. The Republican Governors Association (RGA) is spending another $1.5 million on Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the GOP nominee, even though she continues to trail former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, her Democratic opponent. The race received a jolt after Virginia's Democratic candidate for attorney general apologized for widely condemned text messages from 2022 that revealed h…
Jay Jones suggested that if 'a few' police officers were killed, they would 'act differently': Carrie Coyner
The Virginia Republican who revealed Jay Jones, a Democratic Virginia attorney general candidate, wished death upon a former state House speaker made another similar accusation against the embattled Democrat. In an interview with the Virginia Scope, Virginia Del. Carrie Coyner said Jones suggested in a 2020 phone call about qualified immunity for police officers that if a “few” died, they would “move on” from “shooting people.” “Police officers …
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