The Democratic Party of Virginia pounced on the news that officials in a national organization for Republican adults younger than the age of 40 were part of a sprawling group chat that included a dizzying array of racial, ethnic and anti-gay slurs and Holocaust jokes.  The story must have looked like a windfall to Virginia Democrats, who have spent the past two weeks trying to endure the story of the distasteful electronic communications of one of their own, Jay Jones, the former state lawmaker who is the party’s nominee for attorney general in next month’s election.

We don’t have any useful polling since the scandal broke, but Republicans have been hoping that they can use Jones’s already weaker position with voters compared with that of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberge

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