THE GOP EXECUTES AN IMPRESSIVE OCTOBER SURPRISE THAT COULD INFLUENCE VIRGINIA AG RACE:
National Review Online reported that when Jay Jones was a delegate in 2021, he acted in an incredibly demented manner. The Virginia House was honoring the memory of a long-time African American delegate who had just passed, and the Virginia Speaker, Todd Gilbert, a Republican, as well as other Republicans, had said the usual salutary boilerplate statements to praise the deceased.
Jones then sent a series of text messages to a Republican delegate where he scoffed at the “glowing” tributes that were being made by Republicans. “If those guys die before me,” Jones wrote, “I will go to their funerals to p*ss on their graves” to “send them out awash in something.” Jones then suggested that, presented with a hypothetical situation in which he had only two bullets and was faced with the choice of murdering then-Speaker of the House Todd Gilbert or two dictators, he’d shoot Gilbert “every time.”
When the Republican delegate expressed her alarm, Jones called her to explain his reasoning over the phone, where he shockingly doubled down, and later he tripled down with more vile texts, which among other things called Gilbert’s children “little fascists” who deserved to die.
It goes without saying that Jones’ behavior was unbelievably and disgustingly evil, reckless, crazy, and stupid. It is absolutely beyond the pale of American political discourse.
Which makes it impressive that the GOP operatives were patient enough to wait till the very last month of the campaign to explode this scandal. Jones, although he had to know this was coming, seems to have made things worse for himself by doing nothing to prepare for it, not even by warning his own party. His first attempted damage control statement was tone deaf, where he claimed “all people” send these kinds of texts, and that Attorney General Miyares and “Trump controlled media organizations” were unfairly playing it up. Then, when this didn’t satisfy anyone, he acted in a more contrite and appropriate manner.
It’s been quite a week in leftist depravity:
To recap:
-Democrat-appointed parole board releases a homicidal maniac who murdered a 6 year old boy by stabbing him in the head.
-Democrat-appointed judge gives just 8 years in prison to a tranny who tried to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh.
-Democrat attorney general…
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) October 4, 2025
Data Republican is demanding refunds from Jones’ heavy hitting financial backers:
I’m calling on these donors to request refunds for the Jay Jones race:
🔹 Elizabeth Simons, Board Chair, Heising-Simons Foundation —$750,000 (California)
🔹 Vinton Cerf, Google VP @vgcerf — $52,500
🔹 @DemocraticAGs — $1,100,000
🔹 Government That Works PAC — $200,000
🔹 Green…— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) October 4, 2025
Naturally though, the WaPo isn’t calling for Jones to withdraw:
Washington Post editorial board stops short of calling on Jay Jones to withdraw: “Jones has a month to convince voters that his hateful rhetoric does not reflect how he’d behave if elected as attorney general.” pic.twitter.com/ceWTzEwIfS
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) October 4, 2025
Flashback: Ralph Northam and the Washington Post — a story in three acts.