In a fiery takedown, Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears slammed Democratic Attorney General nominee Jay Jones for his resurfaced 2022 text messages that reveal an obsession with violence against Republicans, including fantasizing about “murdered little children lying lifeless in their mothers’ arms.”
Earle-Sears declared Jones’ comments “wholly disqualifying” for anyone seeking to serve as the state’s top law enforcer, arguing they reflect a deeper rot within the entire Democratic Party.
The scandal erupted when leaked private texts from Jones, a former Virginia House delegate, were published by National Review.
In one shocking exchange, Jones fantasized about putting “two bullets to the head” of then-Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert in a hypothetical scenario comparing him to dictators like Hitler and Pol Pot.
Jones didn’t stop there; he went even further, expressing a twisted wish that one of Gilbert’s children would die in a school shooting to change Gilbert’s stance on gun control.