Democrats led in Virginia’s attorney general and gubernatorial races before the National Review published copies of the violent text messages attorney general candidate Jay Jones sent a colleague in 2022.

Jones said if he were given two bullets and had to decide who to shoot between Nazi Germany’s dictator Adolf Hitler, Cambodia’s dictator Pol Pot and then-state House Speaker Todd Gilbert, “Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”

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

Polls before the messages were released showed Jones up by 6 percentage points against the Republican incumbent attorney general, Jason Miyares, and he has since slipped about 6 points, per The Trafalgar Group .

Meanwhile, Democrat Rep

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