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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republicans are seizing on recently unearthed violent rhetoric from Virginia's Democratic candidate for attorney general in a push to re-shape the state's governor's race — and tarnish the Democratic Party nationally — less than a month before Election Day. President Donald Trump, like Republicans across Virginia, called for Democratic state attorney general candidate Jay Jones to quit the race over the weekend. The Republican president described Jones as a “radical left lunatic” and sought to link him to former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Virginia's Democratic candidate for governor. “Abigail Spanberger, who is running for Governor, is weak...

It really shouldn't surprise anyone, but the Jay Jones scandal has now escalated far beyond the realm of "tacky texts." It's about a man who openly and shamelessly fantasized about people dying if it helped advance his politics. Despite the Democrat Media Complex's best effort, most in the political world were already aware of the shocking texts Jones sent, advocating for the assassination of then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert. If he wasn't a Democrat office-seeker, that alone would have ended his candidacy. But now, Republican Delegate Carrie Coyner has revealed that those texts weren't some isolated lapse in judgment. It's a...

MSNBC's "Morning Joe" panel did not circle the wagons around Democratic candidate for Virginia Attorney General, Jay Jones, who was reported this weekend to have texted some extremely violent things about killing a GOP colleague. "He should probably be forced to withdraw from the race," Joe Scarborough said. "And 'probably' is doing a lot there." "Republicans and Democrats alike" are criticizing Jay Jones, Mike Brzezinski said. "NBC News is reporting that Jones did not deny the accuracy of these texts on Friday night, and says he takes full responsibility for his actions." "Horrible, I didn’t want to read them out...

RICHMOND, Va. — Democrat Abigail Spanberger leads Republican Winsome Earle-Sears by 10 points in Virginia’s race for governor, according to a new survey from the Wason Center for Civic Leadership at Christopher Newport University.The poll of likely Virginia voters shows Spanberger with 52% support to Earle-Sears’ 42%, while 6% remain undecided. The report notes that statewide races have tightened slightly since the previous Wason Center survey in mid-September, though the differences remain within the survey’s margin of error. In the lieutenant governor’s race, Democrat Ghazala Hashmi leads Republican John Reid 48% to 39%, with 12% undecided. For attorney general, Democrat...

Virginia Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones isn’t the only that could have a rough week. Gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger is having her work history brought into the light, having taught at a Saudi-run school post-9/11. The institution is a terrorist hub, with top Hamas officials sending their children there. The school’s comptroller had ties to Hamas, so it shouldn’t shock anyone that graduates of this school, ISA, were on the radar of federal officials for possibly carrying out attacks against Israel. Spanberger worked at ISA between 2002-2003. Spanberger has not denied working here, even saying she was proud of...

Deep State prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia are leaking again – this time they are trying to defend Letitia James. A top prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia is refusing to charge corrupt New York Attorney General Letitia James. According to MSNBC, Elizabeth Yusi, a senior prosecutor who oversees criminal cases in the Norfolk office, is claiming there is ‘no probable cause’ that Letitia James committed mortgage fraud. TGP has extensively and exclusively reported on Letitia James’ mortgage fraud via Joel Gilbert: Big Development: Is Letitia James Guilty of Mortgage Fraud? Mortgage Fraud Alert: Did Letitia James...

In a drama reshaping Virginia’s high-stakes 2025 elections, Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones remains in the race despite widespread condemnation of a series of 2022 text messages in which he stated he would shoot a Republican politician in the head and fantasized about the children of another Republican being killed. The fallout has put pressure on Jones’ party to act, but so far, many prominent Democrats have stopped short of demanding his exit. The messages, first reported by the National Review on Friday and later picked up by multiple outlets, emerged from a 2022 exchange between Jones and Virginia...

The Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Virginia worked for a Saudi government-controlled school just after 9/11, at a time when the Islamic academy was already controversial for being controlled by the Saudi royal family and for its extremist textbooks which taught hatred of non-Muslims. Abigail Spanberger, a former Democratic congresswoman from Virginia, is currently the favorite to be the state’s next governor, according to polling averages. When it was revealed during her first congressional run in 2018 that she had worked for the Islamic Saudi Academy in northern Virginia during the 2002-2003 school year, Spanberger said that she was “proud” and...

🚨 NEW AD: Jay Jones dreamed of murdering two young kids and their dad over politics—and Abigail Spanberger wants him to be attorney general.

As Twitchy readers (and hopefully, all of America) know, Jay Jones openly texted about putting two bullets in a political opponent's head and then wished for his children (who he also called little fascists) to suffer and die in their mother's arms. Even those of us who do this for a living and have seen some of the worst craziness around were shocked to read these texts, and yet not a single Democrat in Virginia has bothered to call on him to withdraw.In fact, Virginia Beach Democrats doubled down on their support for him and asked others to stand behind...

Virginia’s Democratic nominee for attorney general faced bipartisan backlash Friday night after text messages from 2022 surfaced in which he suggested the top Republican in the state House of Delegates “gets two bullets to the head.” The messages by Jay Jones, who did not hold elected office at the time, were directed at then-speaker of the House Todd Gilbert.

Another high-ranking prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia has been fired. Last month, President Trump fired Erik Siebert as the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia because he refused to bring charges against Letitia James, Comey, Schiff, and others. Shortly after Siebert’s firing, Lindsey Halligan, the new Acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, indicted former FBI Director James Comey. However, the night before Lindsey Halligan indicted Comey, Deep State prosecutors in the EDVA, leaked a memo in an effort to defend Comey. “Two sources familiar with the matter tell me prosecutors in the EDVA...

Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears quickly called on Jones to drop out of the race on Friday, linking him with his ‘running mate’ Spanberger.Virginia Democrat Attorney General candidate and former Del. Jay Jones fantasized in conversations with a former colleague about assassinating then-state House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican, and “wished” death upon Gilbert’s children, a new report revealed Friday.The news comes after Republican state House Del. Kim Taylor, who is running for reelection in Virginia, said she received a death threat last week after Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger told her supporters to “let your...

Right now, registered sex offender Richard Cox is facing several charges in Arlington County. Arlington Police say Cox exposed himself to women and children in women’s locker rooms at two high schools and an Arlington recreation center. In court last week, new details emerged that prosecutors say show Cox was intentionally tracking children not only in Arlington County, but also in Fairfax County. On Thursday, an Arlington police detective testified in an Arlington courtroom that she found child pornography on Cox’s phone and that she found Fairfax County rec center children’s swim class schedules on his phone. Last year, Cox,...

Well, that didn’t take long. The much-anticipated October Surprise in this year’s Virginia state elections arrived - like clockwork - yesterday. October 1. And it was ugly news for the Jay Jones campaign. He’s the Democrat candidate for Attorney General who’s in a tight race with incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares. Turns out that at about 1 a.m. on Friday, January 21, 2022, Jones was clocked doing 116 mph in a 70 zone on I-64 in New Kent County.

The Virginia gubernatorial race has tightened in the campaign’s closing stretch, with Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R-VA) trailing Democrat Abigail Spanberger by just 3 percentage points in a new survey. An A2 Insights poll conducted from Friday to Sunday puts Spanberger at 48% and Earle-Sears at 45%, the narrowest margin reported in months. The A2 Insights result contrasts with several earlier polls this month that showed Spanberger with a larger advantage. For example, a Sept. 8-14 survey from Christopher Newport University’s Wason Center found Spanberger leading 52%-40% among likely voters, while a Sept. 9 release from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Wilder...

A new poll shows the Virginia gubernatorial race tightening, with Republican Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears cutting into Democrat Abigail Spanberger’s lead and bringing the contest within just a few points. The latest A2 Insights poll shows Earle-Sears trailing Spanberger by just three points. The survey, conducted between September 26-28, found Spanberger at 48 percent and Earle-Sears at 45 percent—the narrowest margin in months.

A Democrat prosecutor in D.C.’s most populous suburb allowed illegal immigrants to go unpunished for vicious crimes because a felony conviction might lead to their deportation, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares alleged in an investigation Friday. Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano requires his staff to examine “immigration consequences” when considering cases, then often pleads them down to more minor crimes. That’s a leniency not always afforded to Americans, and it amounts to illegal discrimination, Miyares said in a report that encourages the federal Department of Justice to take action. Descano “engaged in a pattern and practice of denying U.S....

Early voting in Virginia began just last week, but the first wave of ballots already shows Republican-leaning House of Delegates districts pulling ahead of their Democratic counterparts. Of the 20 districts with the highest number of ballots cast so far, 11 are strongly Republican or lean Republican, five are strongly Democratic, and four are competitive, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Project. In total, 35,224 votes had been cast statewide as of Monday, nearly all of them in person. Fewer than 1,000 ballots were cast by mail. And while Virginia does not register voters by party,...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered a meeting with top military leaders from around the world to gather on short notice. The meeting is slated to take place at Quantico in Virginia next Tuesday, per the Washington Post. A meeting of the officials was confirmed by Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, who said Hegseth "will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week," but did not address additional details, the outlet reported. Military members from around the world have been ordered to attend the meeting, the outlet reported. The order also comes as Hegseth has been looking to overhaul...