Glenn Youngkin Rips Into Jay Jones After Election: ‘I Am Incredibly Concerned’

Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) tore into Virginia Attorney General-elect Jay Jones — who won Tuesday’s election despite the cloud of scandal that threatened to engulf him — on Wednesday, saying that he was no less concerned about Jones’ ability to carry out the duties of his office in an unbiased manner.

Youngkin mentioned the scandal that had followed Jones, stemming from text messages he’d sent three years earlier that advocated the assassination of then-state House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican, and suggested that Gilbert and his wife should have to watch one of their young children die.

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“I am incredibly concerned about the Attorney General elect’s to do the job based on the text that he sent. They were abhorrent, and I think that they, once again, reiterate that you can’t come into this job, if… pic.twitter.com/btyNg2qgtE

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“I am incredibly concerned about the Attorney General-elect’s ability to do the job based on the texts that he sent. They were abhorrent, and I think that they, once again, reiterate that you can’t come into this job if you are espousing death on a political enemy, the death of children, and the death of law enforcement,” Youngkin posted on X.

“And I believe, just as I’ve always believed that that disqualifies him for the job,” the governor continued. “The next administration’s going to have to figure out how to deal with that because they have law enforcement, that they’re going to need to make sure, feel good about doing the job. They’re going to have to make sure that parents with children feel safe.”

“And that’s going to be a challenge going forward. My position has not changed; that there is absolutely no excuse for what he wrote. None. And we live in a society today that I think has lost its way, at least some folks have, on their willingness to almost accept violence and political violence as a solution,” Youngkin concluded.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears lost her bid for the governor’s mansion on Tuesday, meaning that Youngkin will soon be replaced by Democrat Abigail Spanberger, who initially condemned Jones’ text messages, but stopped short of calling for him to step away from the race.