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Gov. Glenn Youngkin criticized Democratic leaders for not demanding attorney general candidate Jay Jones leave the race.

Jones apologized for 2022 text messages in which he imagined the shooting of a former GOP House speaker.

The governor made his comments after a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new hydrogen production facility in Petersburg.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin continued his verbal attacks on the Democratic nominee for attorney general at a stop Oct. 8 in Petersburg, saying Jay Jones' text messages imagining the shooting of a former GOP House of Delegates speaker "shock the conscience" and called it "despicable" that the Democrats have not made him leave the ticket.

"They're just standing by and letting [Jones] run for the attorney general office. I think it's des

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