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Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., was silent when pressed by Fox News Digital as to whether Jerrauld “Jay” Jones — his party’s nominee for commonwealth attorney general — should drop out of the race after texts surfaced depicting the murder of then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert.

Warner, on his way to a closed-door briefing as vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, averted his glance to an aide talking in his ear as the press converged.

When Warner stepped off the elevator on the second floor of the Philip Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, he appeared to go the long way around an open-air looping hallway to get to the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing room, after spotting the press.

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