President Donald Trump endorsed Virginia Republican attorney general candidate and current Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, and called for Virginia Democrat attorney general candidate Jay Jones to “drop out of the race” over comments he made entertaining thoughts of shooting a Republican politician.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump referenced a recent report from the National Review that revealed that Jones had allegedly sent text messages to Virginia House Delegate Carrie Coyner (R) in 2022, complaining about his Republican colleagues “eulogizing” a recently deceased Democrat colleague. Jones also pondered a hypothetical situation in which, if he had to pick between shooting “two dictators” or former Virginia Speaker of the House of Delegates Todd Gilbert, he would pick Gil