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American attorney and politician
Jay Jones sent private text messages in August 2022 in which he reportedly fantasized about shooting then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert and wrote that Gilbert’s children should “die in their mother’s arm...
Comparable past leaks involving Jay Jones in 2025 centered on private 2022 text messages that surfaced showing violent fantasies about a GOP lawmaker; those leaks produced immediate bipartisan condemn...
Virginia showed signs of — and in some coverage experienced — split-ticket voting in 2025 where Democratic Abigail Spanberger won the governorship while polling and reporting beforehand suggested Repu...
Media outlets and public officials treated Jay Jones’s 2022 violent text messages as a serious credibility problem that threatened his candidacy, provoking bipartisan criticism, calls from some groups...
Jay Jones is a lawyer and career politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates, worked as an Assistant Attorney General in Washington, D.C., and was the Democratic nominee — and winner — fo...
Officials, law enforcement and political actors reacted swiftly and sharply after leaked 2022 texts showed Jay Jones fantasizing about shooting then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert and wishing death on his...
Jay Jones is the Democratic victor in Virginia’s 2025 attorney general race and a central figure in a controversy over private 2022 text messages that fantasized about shooting then-House Speaker Todd...
The leaked Jay Jones text messages were sent in August 2022 and do correspond to official events or meetings in 2024–2025; they are private-era messages whose disclosure reshaped the 2025 Virginia att...
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares did not originate the phrase ; that language came from Democratic candidate Jay Jones in resurfaced 2022 text messages. Miyares repeatedly Jones’s “two bullets ...
Jay Jones faced immediate public condemnation and bipartisan calls to withdraw after violent 2022 text messages were published, but he nonetheless won the Virginia attorney general race, meaning by el...
Winsome Earle-Sears launched a 2025 campaign for Virginia governor after making history as Virginia’s first Black woman elected to statewide office; her campaign emphasizes conservative priorities whi...
Jay Jones publicly apologized for 2022 text messages that referenced shooting former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, saying he was “ashamed, embarrassed, and sorry” and taking “full accountabilit...
Newsweek reported that texts from Jay Jones in 2022 included a phrase suggesting a former Virginia House speaker should receive "," and Jones has publicly apologized for those messages; the texts were...