Jay Jones, the Democratic candidate for Virginia’s attorney general race, has apologized for text messages he sent in 2022 in which he suggested a prominent Republican receive “two bullets to the head.”
Jones is now on the defensive in a race where early voting is underway in Virginia weeks ahead of next month’s general election.
The Democratic candidate’s campaign did not dispute the validity of the texts, and Jones offered a public apology to Republican former House Delegate Todd Gilbert, who was targeted in the messages and was the speaker of Virginia’s House of Delegates when the messages were sent….