Virginia Democratic AG Candidate Apologizes for 2022 Texts Depicting Political Violence

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….