Pressure on Democrat Jerrauld “Jay” Jones to end his campaign for Virginia’s attorney general ratcheted up Sunday, with President Donald Trump calling him on social media a “Radical Left Lunatic” who should drop out “IMMEDIATELY” and Democrats declining to rally to his defense after text messages they criticized as “disturbing” and worthy of “disgust.”

Virginia’s Republican candidate for governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, released a campaign ad Sunday seeking to tie her opponent Democrat Abigail Spanberger to the controversy. It concludes with the message: “Reject the insanity. Vote Republican.”

The day before, GOP demands that Jones abandon the race had begun to mount, with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) adding his voice and Vice President JD Vance assailing Jones for “fantasizing

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