Sears Target Spanberger on the support of Jay Jones in the middle of the text scandal

The candidate for the Governor of Virginia, WinSome, Earle-Sears, unveiled a new campaign advertisement on Sunday connecting his democratic opponent, Abigail Spanberger, to the Attorney General of Hope Jay Jones, whose recently raised text messages have achieved a general reaction.

The one minute announcement offers clips of reports detailing the disturbing messages that Jones sent a colleague in 2022. The place also shows photos of Spanberger and Jones together and includes Spanberger’s audio saying: “It was great to be on the countryside with Jay Jones.”

“Jay Jones dreamed of killing two young children and their father on politics – and Abigail Spanberger wants him to be a prosecutor general,” wrote Earle -Sears in a post accompanying the video.

The announcement ends with a message on the screen: “reject madness. Republican vote”.

“ Consumed with hatred ”: WinSome Sears, Jason Miyares discharges on the Democrat Jay Jones on violent texts

Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia, WinSome Earle-Sears, speaks on a podium on Saturday October 4, 2025, after the general candidate of the Attorney General of Democrat, Jay Jones, surfaced. (Pool)

The texts obtained by Fox News Digital showed a conversation in August 2022 involving Jones – then a recently deceased deceased from Norfolk – referring to the former republican president of the Todd Gilbert Chamber, writing, “three people, two balls. Gilbert, Hitler and Pol Pot. Gilbert obtains two balls.”

In another message, Jones hypothesized if Gilbert and his wife Jennifer “raised small fascists”.

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Jay Jones, who presents himself to become the Attorney General of Virginia, speaks to the public when stopping bus tour of Abigail Spanberger in Fairfax, Virginia, June 26, 2025. (Maxine Wallace / The Washington Post / Getty Images)

President Donald Trump weighed on Sunday, calling Jones as “the radical left” and exhoring him to abandon the race. The president described Spanberger as “weak and ineffective” and congratulated the opponent of Jones, the attorney general of Virginia, Jason Miyares.

“Abigail Spanberger, who presents himself for the governor, is weak and ineffective, and refuses to recognize what this madman did,” Trump posted on Truth social. “Even the Democrats say that it is the territory of the” resignation of the campaign “. The Democrat Jay Jones should abandon the race, immediately, and the inhabitants of Virginia must continue to have a great attorney general at Jason Miyares who, by the way, for my complete and total approval – Jason will never let you down!”

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Spanberger condemned Jones’ messages, but stopped calling him to withdraw from the race.

The Abigail Spanberger representative, D-VA., Is expressed during an interview in his congress offices in Washington, on February 8, 2023. (AP photo / Nathan Howard, file)

In a statement published in the media, Jones said: “I take full responsibility for my actions, and I want to apologize the deepest apologies to speaker Gilbert and his family.”

“Reading behind these words made me sick in my stomach. I am embarrassed, ashamed and sorry. I contacted President Gilbert to apologize directly to him, his wife Jennifer and their children. I can not take what I said; I can only take a complete responsibility and offer my sincere apologies.

“The Virginians deserve honest leaders who admit when they are wrong and arise at their mistakes. It was a serious mistake, and I will work every day to prove to the inhabitants of Virginia that I will fight for them as a prosecutor general,” he added.

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Earle-Sears, Spanberger and Jones did not immediately respond to the request for comments from Fox News Digital.

Charles Creitz of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.