<p>An adviser for former President Joe Biden counts herself among the Democrats blowing off the despicable texts sent by the party&#8217;s nominee to serve as attorney general in Virginia: Jay Jones.</p>
<p>Tanden joined a Sunday morning panel discussion on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; just 48 hours after texts Jones sent in 2022 — in which he&#8217;d advocated for the murder of then-state House Speaker Todd Gilbert — went viral, and she argued that because the text conversation was supposed to remain private, it should not matter.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">BONKERS. Neera Tanden excuses Virginia Democrat AG candidate Jay Jones calling for the assassination of a Republican leader and his kids as just merely just a “private conversation.”</p>
<p>Utterly disgraceful. 🤡🤡🤡🤡<br />
<a href="https://t.co/N5KEyFZHPU">pic.twitter.com/N5KEyFZHPU</a></p>
<p>— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1974871008147616176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Marc Short, who served as chief of staff for former Vice President Mike Pence, was the first to mention Jones — and he did so in the context of the Democrats who&#8217;d been pearl-clutching over memes that featured House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) with a fake mustache and a sombrero.</p>
<p>&#8220;Can we stop with the pearl-clutching about the mean tweets and the sombrero tweets?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;This week it came to light that a Democrat candidate for attorney general in the state of Virginia called for the assassination of a political opponent, called for the assassination of that political opponent&#8217;s family, and there&#8217;s not one national Democrat calling for him to step aside — not one! It&#8217;s disgraceful.&#8221;</p>
<p>Host Kristen Welker flipped the question to Tanden, noting that the story was likely to only get bigger.</p>
<p>&#8220;I mean, I absolutely think people should criticize that, 100%,&#8221; Tanden began. &#8220;I think it was a private conversation he had, but still awful and disgusting &#8230; it should be condemned, but then we should condemn that, but then you should condemn when the president calls the Democratic Party the &#8216;party of satan.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Short and Tanden talked over each other for a few minutes before Short broke through, pointing out once again that &#8220;not one Democrat&#8221; had stepped up to publicly condemn Jones for the texts.</p>
<p>&#8220;The fact that not one Democrat has stood up when he called for a political assassination in this moment of political violence is crazy,&#8221; he declared.</p>

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