Democrat Abigail Spanberger was given multiple opportunities during Virginia’s only gubernatorial debate Thursday to disavow her support for embattled attorney general candidate Jay Jones and repeatedly refused.

The topic of Jones’ vile text messages about the state’s former GOP House speaker deserving “two bullets” to the head came up early in Spanberger’s contentious debate against Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears – with the Republican bringing the scandal up during her response to the moderator’s first question, which was unrelated to Jones.

“Abigail, when are you gonna take Jay Jones and say to him, ‘You must leave the race?’” Earle-Sears asked Spanberger.

“He has said he wants to murder his political opponent, and not only that – his opponent’s children,” the lieutenant governo

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