House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday stood by the Democrat running for attorney general in Virginia, suggesting Jay Johnson should remain in the race following revelations that he had mused about violence against a Republican lawmaker and his children. Asked if the Democrat should step aside, Jeffries signaled that Jones’s apologies for the episode were enough.

"The attorney general candidate has appropriately apologized for his remarks, and I know his remarks have been condemned across the board by Democrats in the commonwealth [of] Virginia and beyond,” Jeffries told reporters outside the Capitol. “And that's the right thing to do." Jones, the Democrat seeking to unseat Virginia’s incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares (R), had sent text messages in 2022 ruminati

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