Virginia Dem AG candidate retains ratification despite violent texts
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Senior Democrats refuse to give up the general candidate of Verginia Jay Jones, despite a report that reveals that he wished the death of a Republican colleague.
Days after a bomb National Review Report The open text messages in which Jones imagined the shooting of a head of a head of the head and the harm that comes to his children in 2022, Fox News Digiki continued to the senior Democrats who supported Jones and inquired if their approvals were standing.
Deem. Senator Cori Booker, who supported Jones in June, did not cancel his support for Jones and his office immediately responded to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
The offices of three members of the Democrats who supported Jones, actors Eugene Vidman, Robert Scott and Sohas Supermami have also not responded to a request to comment on whether their approvals are still in place.
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Jay Jones, who runs to become a public lawyer in Virginia in 2025, speaks to the audience during the Abil Spanberger Bus Station in Verfax, Virginia on June 26, 2025. (Maxine Wallace/Washington Post/Getty Emiez)
Fidman’s Republican opponent, Tara Durant, criticized him for his silence in a press statement on Monday, saying: “While political violence becomes very real, Virginians deserve leaders who will be temperature and claim the dangerous speech – they do not turn a blind eye when it is political comfortable.”
On Sunday, after the National Review Report, Vindman confirmed his support for Jones in A. Publishing on X.
The Democratic Senate in Virginia, Mark Warner and Tim Kane, did not return Jones officially, but they did not invite him openly out of the race.
Warner, According to Virginia MercuryThe Jones texts are called “horrific” and “do not agree with the person I knew.”
Ken Fox News told the digital in a statement that the future of Jones was in the hands of the voters.
Kane said: “There is nothing that can justify these words that cannot be defended and they contradict everything I knew about Jay Jones for decades.” “With hundreds of thousands of Virginia already voting, it is due to Virginians to make a decision.”
Warner’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Spanberger, who was running for the position of ruler in one of the most closely monitored races in the country, condemned Jones’s messages, but stopped inviting him to withdraw from the race.
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Virginia’s general candidate Gayold “Jay” speaks at an event in Norfolk, Virginia. (Trevor Metcalfe/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
“I have made it clear that he should take responsibility for his words,” said Spanerger’s statement. “As a candidate – and as the next ruler of the Commonwealth – I will always condemn the language of violence in our policy.”
Fox News Digital has contacted the Spanberger campaign on Monday evening, but it did not receive a response immediately.
The Virginia Beach Democratic Committee issued a confirmed statement to its support to Jones, and called on all Virginia to “rise behind him.”
“We have lined up ten fingers, ready to organize, mobilize and hand over voters to the entire democracy.” “The last press may have errors in the past. We say, let those who do not make mistakes throw the first stone. Jay Jones assumed responsibility, apologized and showed that he is committed to serving integrity and accountability that appears his public record already.”
Virginia candidate AG Jay Jones, who are convicted of reckless leadership, calls it a “error”
Representative Eugene Vidman on Capitol Hill. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
You did not immediately respond to the offices of the great Democrats in Congress, Senator Chuck Schumer and MP Hakim Jeffrez, immediately to request a comment on whether Jones should stay in the race.
A variety of liberal calling groups also supported Jones, including every city for arms safety, which donated $ 200,000 to Jones earlier this year and supported him. The arms control group did not respond on Monday when I was asked whether they would do the ratification.
Republicans all over the country, referring to the relationship between the violent discourse of left -wing and political violence, led to two assassination attempts against President Donald Trump and the killing of Charlie Kerk, in inviting Jones to get out of the race.
Trump wrote in a social publication in fact: “Democrat Jay Jones must leave the race immediately and the Virginia people should continue to have a great public lawyer in Jason Mayres who, by the way, has full and comprehensive support,” Trump wrote in a social publication.
Meanwhile, the Republican Prosecutor at Virginia Jason Mayreis and the Ventan Ruler Celess Jones criticized over the weekend, saying that his recent text messages raised serious questions about his fitness to positions.
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Jones apologized for the texts, described the notes as “embarrassing and shameful”, and said he had a hand personally with Gilbert and his family.
Fox News Digital has communicated with the Jones campaign to comment on plans to stay in the race, but it did not hear immediately.
Amanda Massias of Fox News Digiki contributed to this report.