VP Vance, Speaker Johnson Demand VA Dem AG Candidate Drop Out
Vice-president JD Vance and the president of the Chamber, Mike Johnson, both called the candidate for the Attorney General of Virginia Democrat, Jay Jones, to withdraw from the race, citing private text messages which he sent to the republican delegate Carrie Coyner in which he entertained a hypothetical about the shooting of Todd Gilbert and referred his children.
Vance poster on x“The Democratic candidate for AG in Virginia fantasized about the murder of his political opponents in private messages. I am sure that hyperventing people on the same sombrero will join me to call this very disturbed person to abandon the race. ”
(The reference of Vance to the “sombrero memes” followed the recent articles by President Trump representing the chief of the Hakeem Jeffries room in a sombrero during the current closure, a subject that Vance previously addressed in the covered comments here).
Johnson Added,“These text messages are clearly disqualifying for anyone aspired to the public service.
There is no conceivable justification for wishing violence against a political opponent and their children.
Mr. Jay Jones should immediately withdraw his candidacy, save himself and his party from embarrassment again and take a little time to think. »»
The remarks followed reports From the national journal showing that Jones, who had resigned from the House of Delegates of Virginia in 2022, had sent a text to the republican delegate Carrie Coyner to complain about tributes to the deceased Democratic legislator Joseph Johnson Jr. in the scholarship, Jones ridiculed Les Républicains, if we speculated on the participation in leading women ” Let’s piss on their seriousness “and to face two bubbles and the choice of targets,”, and wrote that if she faced two bubbles and the choice of targets, “, and wrote that if she was confronted with two bubbles and the choice of dictates,”, and wrote that if the features and the choice of the objective or the T Cise Gilbert, he shot Gilbert. Twice.
Goyn confirmed messages at Washington Post And said that Jones then extended the conversation in which he would have referred to the children of Gilbert who dying in their mother’s arms. She condemned comments as disqualifying.
Republican officials, including the General Association of Republican Prosecutors And governor Glenn Youngkin, exhorted Jones withdraws. Lieutenant-Governor WinSome Earle-Sears, who presents himself for the governor against Democratic representative Abigail Spanberger joined these calls, while the Republicans criticized Spanberger and other Democrats for not having demanded his withdrawal.
Jones has issuing apologies, awarding that he assumes full responsibility and that words make him “sick to [his] Stomach. “In an interview with ABC 8News, he expressed that he was” deeply, deeply sorry “and wanted to be able to resume the messages.
