REPUBLICANS POUNCE! Trump’s GOP seizes on violent rhetoric from Virginia AG candidate as high-stakes elections loom.

Republicans are seizing on recently unearthed violent rhetoric from Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general in a push to re-shape the state’s governor’s race — and tarnish the Democratic Party nationally — less than a month before Election Day.

President Donald Trump, like Republicans across Virginia, called for Democratic state attorney general candidate Jay Jones to quit the race over the weekend. The Republican president described Jones as a “radical left lunatic” and sought to link him to former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Virginia’s Democratic candidate for governor.

“Abigail Spanberger, who is running for Governor, is weak and ineffective, and refuses to acknowledge what this Lunatic has done,” Donald Trump wrote on social media.

The clash over Jones’ violent rhetoric, shared in a 2022 private text message exchange published on Friday, comes just four weeks before voters in Virginia and New Jersey choose new state leaders. History suggests that the party that holds the White House — Trump’s Republican Party in this case — struggles in off-year elections, but Republicans hope the scandal might tilt next month’s elections in their direction.

How dare Republicans notice that the Democrats’ candidate for attorney general wants to murder their children.