House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) appeared to stand by Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones in comments to reporters outside the Capitol on Thursday.

Jeffries said Jones has “appropriately apologized” for the incendiary texts, in which he suggested a former Virginia House speaker and his children should be killed.

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“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,” Jef

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