The fallout from revelations that the Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general sent text messages using violent language threatening a political opponent and his family continue to reverberate a week after they were first brought to light.
During a chaotic gubernatorial debate Thursday, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican nominee in this fall’s election, again called on the Democratic nominee, former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, to tell Democrat Jay Jones to drop out of the race for attorney general.
Earle-Sears repeatedly interrupted Spanberger, the current front-runner in the race, who mostly did not engage directly with her opponent and often stared straight ahead and remained silent when faced with questions from the Republican. The meeting was the only scheduled debate between the two candidates ahead of the Nov. 4 election to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
