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Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares stated his opponent's text messages should disqualify him from the race.

Democratic candidate Jay Jones apologized for 2022 texts suggesting a former House speaker should be shot.

Jones has stated he will not step down from the Democratic ticket despite the controversy.

Republican incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares says his Democratic opponent’s text messages inferring that a former Virginia House speaker should be shot should disqualify him for the job, but he stopped short of saying Jay Jones should definitely end his candidacy.

In a lengthy statement released Oct. 4, Miyares told Virginia voters that if they agreed with the tone of the 2022 text messages between Jones and a former Republican House colleague, then t

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