President Trump called on Democratic Virginia Attorney General nominee Jay Jones to drop out of his race over leaked text messages about former Republican state House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R). 

It has just come out that the Radical Left Lunatic, Jay Jones, who is running against Jason Miyares, the GREAT Attorney General in Virginia, made SICK and DEMENTED jokes, if they were jokes at all, which were not funny, and that he wrote down and sent around to people, concerning the murdering of a Republican Legislator, his wife, and their children,” Trump posted on Sunday. 

“Abigail Spanberger, who is running for Governor, is weak and ineffective, and refuses to acknowledge what this Lunatic has done. Even Democrats are saying it is “RESIGNATION FROM CAMPAIGN” TERRITORY,” the president continued. 

Trump went on to write that Jones should drop out of the race “immediately,” and gave his “complete and total endorsement” to incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares. 

The ad comes as the revelation over the text messages rocks Virginia’s off-year elections. The messages were first reported by the National Review and the texts were later published by the Republican Attorneys General Association. 

“Three people, two bullets,” Jones said in a text to House Delegate Carrie Coyner (R) about former House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R ). 

“Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot.” Jones wrote. “Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”

“Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time,” Jones told Coyner. 

Coyner, in response, told Jones, who at the time did not hold an elected office, to stop. Jones apologized on Friday for the messages, stating he reached out to Gilbert and his family to express regret.

“I am so deeply, deeply sorry for what I said and I wish that it hadn’t happened and I would take it back if I could,” Jones told WRIC, which is owned by The Hill’s parent company Nexstar Media Group, on Friday. 

Spanberger rolled out a statement following the news of the text messaging, condemning the correspondence. 

“After learning of these comments earlier today, I spoke frankly with Jay about my disgust with what he said and texted,” Spanberger said. “I made clear to Jay that he must fully take responsibility for his words. What I have also made clear is that as a candidate–and as the next governor of the commonwealth, I will always condemn violent language in our politics.” 

The text messages come as Americans grapple with an uptick in political violence, particularly following the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last month. 

Republicans across the country, including Vice President Vance, have called on Jones to suspend his bid. 

“The Democrat candidate for AG in Virginia has been fantasizing about murdering his political opponents in private messages,” Vance said in a post on X. “I’m sure the people hyperventilating about sombrero memes will join me in calling for this very deranged person to drop out of the race.”