The Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general, Jay Jones, apologized Friday after text messages in which he jokingly sent to a colleague about shooting former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert surfaced.

The National Review was first to report on Jones’ text messages that were sent to Republican House of Delegates candidate Carrie Coyner in 2022. At the time, Jones wrote:

Three people, two bullets

Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot

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

Coyner responded: “Please stop. … It really bothers me when you talk about hurting people or wishing death on them.”

In a statement, Jones said he takes full responsibility for his actions and apologized to Gil

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