The fallout continues for Jay Jones, the Democratic candidate for Virginia attorney general, who was forced to cancel Thursday night's fundraiser, Fox News reported. Jones' hopes for the top cop position are fading fast after text messages stating that he wants to put "two bullets" into Republican Todd Gilbert, who was then-Virginia House Speaker, have surfaced.
Donors who were invited to author David Baldacci's home for the event were notified that the fundraiser was canceled and that their donations would be refunded. Many believe this is directly related to the text messages, as Jones continues to face criticism over his celebration of violence.
The messages were exchanged in 2022, but the political climate has considerably changed with the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Calls for violence from the left have taken on a new gravity, and Jones' messages were particularly disturbing as it is.
Democrats acknowledge that "violent words precede violent actions" and "we should have a culture of condemning any rhetoric that glorifies violence." Fellow Democratic candidates in Virginia have rebuked Jones, but none are calling for him to step down from the race yet. Jones has apologized for the messages, but he is still in the race for top law enforcement official in Virginia.
In his text messages, Jones was fantasizing about what he would do if he had two bullets and three people when he came to a sickening conclusion. "Three people, two bullets," the text messages read.
"Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head," Jones wrote of the former House Speaker of Virginia.
"Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time," Gilbert added. He was corresponding with GOP House Delegate Carrie Coyner with this disgusting hypothetical, according to The Hill.
Conyner told him to stop, but Jones reportedly went on to more demented scenarios, including hoping that Gilbert's wife would have to see her children dead so that her husband would "feel pain" and understand the ramifications of his stance on the Second Amendment. Screenshots of this horrific exchange were shared to X, formerly Twitter, by political commentator Benny Johnson.
After Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump were both shot in the head by Democrats you probably don't need *more* proof that Democrats want to kill you...
But if you do, boy do I have a story for you.
Meet Jay Jones. Jay is the Democrat candidate for Attorney General of Virginia.
Jay… pic.twitter.com/vrn9waHURc
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 6, 2025
Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, who calls Gilbert his "friend," criticized Jones for his hateful messages and urged him to repent. “What Jay said was harmful, reckless, and wrong. He needs to apologize now. He must take accountability for his words, and then reflect and pray," the Democrat claimed.
Normally, it would be unthinkable for a man like Jones to have a political future, but this is the Democratic Party, so the best they'll do is a strongly worded message. Scott said over the weekend that the big worry is that the candidates will lose focus and get "distracted" over this scandal as Democrats push back against President Donald Trump.
“We can’t get distracted because they want us to get distracted by a text message here or something else. Stay focused," Scott urged. Others in the party on the Virginia Beach Democratic Committee downplayed the severity of the messages and urged clemency for Jones.
"Recent press may have highlighted past mistakes. We say, let those without sin cast the first stone," the committee said Saturday, using a biblical allusion (Democrats only seem to care about Christian principles when they think it will take the heat off of them).
Jones does not deserve to hold public office at all, let alone as Virginia's top cop, but Democrats really don't care. They're focused on making sure Republicans lose, even if they have to support the kind of people who fantasize about shooting others and inflicting pain.
