October 15, 2025
What Would it Take for Democrats to Withdraw Support from Jay Jones?
By Chris J. Krisinger
Virginia Democratic Attorney General candidate Jay Jones has shocked and outraged both Virginia and the nation after it became public that he sent heinous messages declaring he wanted a Republican colleague murdered while further wishing death on his children and for them to “die in their mother’s arms.”
The outrage is amplified by the fact Jones is campaigning to be the state’s attorney general -- the state’s top law enforcement officer -- while manifesting ideations of vile politically driven violence. Regardless of one’s political tendencies, such vicious and violent transgressions should be societally intolerable, as well as disqualifying for holding public office.
But Jones somehow remains on the Virginia state Democratic ticket. While several Democrats have expressed muted disgust over Jones’ remarks, none have yet stepped forward to outright call for his removal from the ballot. Virginia’s Democrat candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, Abigail Spanberger and Ghazala Hashmi, refuse to withdraw support for their fellow Democrat even after his comments became public. Spanberger and Hashmi’s refusals to withdraw their support are in a lineup of Virginia Democrats doubling down on support for their attorney general candidate.
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