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Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears unveiled a new campaign ad Sunday linking her Democratic opponent, Abigail Spanberger, to attorney general hopeful Jay Jones, whose recently resurfaced text messages have drawn widespread backlash.
The minute-long ad features clips from news reports detailing disturbing messages Jones sent in 2022 to a colleague. The spot also shows photos of Spanberger and Jones together and includes audio of Spanberger saying, “It’s been great to be out on the campaign trail with Jay Jones.”
“Jay Jones dreamed of murdering two young kids and their dad over politics — and Abigail Spanberger wants him to be attorney general,” Earle-Sears wrote in an X post accompanying the video.
The ad concludes with an on-screen message: “Reject the insanity. Vote Republican.”
‘CONSUMED WITH HATE’: WINSOME SEARS, JASON MIYARES UNLOAD ON DEMOCRAT JAY JONES OVER VIOLENT TEXTS
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears speaks at a podium on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, after texts from Democrat attorney general candidate Jay Jones surfaced. (Pool)
Texts obtained by Fox News Digital on Friday showed an August 2022 conversation involving Jones — then a recently departed delegate from Norfolk — referencing former Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert, writing, “Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, Hitler and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”
In another message, Jones speculated whether Gilbert and his wife Jennifer were “breeding little fascists.”
YOUNGKIN SAYS DEMOCRAT AG CANDIDATE JAY JONES MUST ‘STEP AWAY IN DISGRACE’ OVER TEXTS ABOUT FORMER GOP LEADER
Jay Jones, who is running to become Virginia’s attorney general, speaks to the audience during Abigail Spanberger’s bus tour stop in Fairfax, Virginia, on June 26, 2025. (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump weighed in on Sunday, calling Jones a “radical left lunatic” and urging him to drop out of…
