Democratic candidate for Virginia's attorney general Jay Jones is walking back remarks made during a text exchange in 2022.

Republican State Del. Carrie Coyner confirmed to NBC News that Jones sent a series of text messages in August of that year. According to Coyner, Jones said, if he had two bullets for three people and one of those people was then House Speaker Todd Gilbert, “Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”

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During the exchange, Jones also added, “Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time.”

Coyner said Jones called her after he sent those messages and suggested he wished Gilbert's wife could watch her own child die in her arms so that Gilbert wo

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