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JD Vance and other Trump administration officials have joined calls for the Democratic candidate in Virginia’s attorney general race to step down after text messages were unearthed in which he suggested his political opponent was worse than Hitler and should be shot.
The vice president, as well as other Republicans including Speaker Mike Johnson and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, condemned the “abhorrent” messages sent by Jay Jones to another delegate in 2022.
“The Democrat candidate for AG in Virginia has been fantasizing about murdering his political opponents in private messages,” Vance wrote on
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