Since late Friday, there has been considerable, and very heated, discussion of a text by Jay Jones, Democrat nominee for attorney general of Virginia, saying if he had two bullets and the opportunity to shoot Hitler, Cambodia’s murderous strongman Pol Pot, or former State House Speaker Todd Gilbert, “Gilbert gets two bullets to the head. Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time.”
Bang! One could almost hear the collective outrage throughout the Old Dominion state, where Jones is vying for one of three statewide offices on the ballot in November.
Democrat gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger told reporters she spoke to Jones, called his remarks “disgusting,” and vowed to always “condemn threatening language in our politics.” Other Democrats, including Sen. Mark Warner, also weighed in against Jones’ texts, although none have called for him to abandon the race.
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