President Trump and many Republican lawmakers have called on Jones to end his campaign for Attorney General after the publication of private text messages from 2022 suggesting that a political opponent gets two bullets to the head.

Jones, who represented Norfolk in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2018 through 2021, has apologized repeatedly for the violent rhetoric he used in text messages he sent to Del. Carrie Coyner, a Republican from Chesterfield, in 2022 about former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert. The text exchange was published by the National Review.

CBS 6 political analyst Dr. Bob Holsworth believes Jones will try to use Thursday's debate as a way to move on from the past two weeks, while Miyares is going to try and keep the focus there.

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