US EditionPresident Trump Calls for Jones to Quit Virginia AG Race Following Leaked Messages
Trump condemned Jones' 2022 texts fantasizing violence against a GOP delegate and endorsed incumbent Jason Miyares, urging voters to reject Jones in the attorney general race.
- On Sunday, President Donald Trump demanded that Jay Jones leave the attorney general race and endorsed Jason Miyares, the incumbent Republican attorney general.
- Leaked messages from August 2022 show Jay Jones fantasizing about shooting then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert and wishing harm on his children, first published by National Review.
- Blasting Jones on Truth Social, President Donald Trump called him a `Radical Left Lunatic` with `SICK and DEMENTED` messages and labeled Abigail Spanberger `weak and ineffective`.
- Early voting levels heighten the potential electoral impact of the emerging scandal, as more than 355,000 Virginians already voted, and Trump urged support for Jason Miyares.
- With the Nov. 4 election less than a month away, a Washington Post–Schar School poll shows Jay Jones leading Jason Miyares 51–45 while Virginia Democrats remain divided.
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Trump calls on Jay Jones to drop out of Virginia AG race after 'DEMENTED' texts resurface
President Donald Trump is demanding that Virginia Democrat Jerrauld “Jay" Jones drop out of the race for attorney general, posting a blistering statement on social media Sunday that intensified pressure on the Democratic candidate.
Trump Calls on Virginia AG Nominee Jay Jones to Quit over Texts about Killing GOP - Hungarian Conservative
Leaked text messages have placed Democrat nominee for Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones under heavy scrutiny, with US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance both urging him to withdraw from the race. The messages from 2022 show Jones writing that he would shoot then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert and that he wanted Gilbert’s wife to watch her children die. ‘It has just come out that the Radical Left Lunatic, Jay Jones, who is running a…
“Should Drop Out Of The Race, Immediately” – Trump Calls For Dem Candidate To Step Down After Text Messages Released
Donald Trump called on Virginia Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones to drop out of the race after text messages he sent were released. Trump wrote, “It has just come out that the Radical Left Lunatic, Jay Jones, who is running against Jason Miyares, the GREAT Attorney General in Virginia, made SICK and DEMENTED jokes, if they were jokes at all, which were not funny, and that he wrote down and sent around to people, concerning the mur…
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