Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, who is running for governor, released a campaign ad Sunday exposing text messages from 2022 sent by Democrat Jay Jones, a candidate for attorney general, in which he talked about shooting former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert and wrote that his wife needed to witness their children die.

The one-minute video, posted Sunday, opens with a montage of news anchors reporting that “Jay Jones is under fire” for sending messages in 2022 saying Gilbert “should be shot.” One anchor references that Jones suggested Gilbert’s wife “watch her own child die in her arms so that Gilbert might reconsider his political views.” Another states, “Jones said quote Gilbert, Hitler, and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.” A later clip adds, “Jones doubl

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