The violent trend Emmer mentioned is evident in Virginia’s race, where Democrat attorney general candidate Jay Jones won despite text messages in August 2022 in which he reportedly complained about his Republican colleagues “eulogizing” a recently deceased Democrat colleague. Jones also pondered a hypothetical situation in which, if he had to pick between shooting “two dictators” or former Virginia Speaker of the House of Delegates Todd Gilbert, he would pick Gilbert “every time.” During the text conversation, Jones allegedly “talked about Gilbert’s children dying in the arms of their mother.”