Exclusive: Jason Miyares Talks Jay Jones Texting Scandal, Reckless Driving Conviction at VA Fundraiser

During his remarks at a Northern Virginia fundraiser on Tuesday evening, Virginia’s incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares spoke about the Jay Jones texting scandal and how it might affect this year’s statewide races, National Review has learned.

The texting scandal, first reported by National Review last Friday, has injected a sense of panic in Democratic circles about their embattled 2025 attorney general nominee Jay Jones’s disturbing rhetoric from 2022, when he fantasized about shooting his former Republican colleague, then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, and said that his children should die so that he might reconsider his political views. While many Virginia Democrats have expressed alarm and disgust at Jones’s rhetoric, there has been no collective demand from high-profile state Democrats or his running mates for him to withdraw from the race. Of 100 Virginia Democrats contacted by the Washington Post, only one called on Jones to drop out of the race.

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During his remarks at a Northern Virginia fundraiser on Tuesday evening, Virginia’s incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares spoke about the Jay Jones texting scandal and how it might affect this year’s statewide races, National Review has learned.

The texting scandal, first reported by National Review last Friday, has injected a sense of panic in Democratic circles about their embattled 2025 attorney general nominee Jay Jones’s disturbing rhetoric from 2022, when he fantasized about shooting his former Republican colleague, then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, and said that his children should die so that he might reconsider his political views. While many Virginia Democrats have expressed alarm and disgust at Jones’s rhetoric, there has been no collective demand from high-profile state Democrats or his running mates for him to withdraw from the race. Of 100 Virginia Democrats contacted by the Washington Post, only one called on Jones to drop out of the race.