Virginia Democratic AG Candidate Arrested in 2023 for Driving 116 MPH on I-64

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Content aside. Any adult that would memorialize these comments in text messages show incredibly poor judgement and should not be rewarded with elective office.

Aside from the expressed thoughts, the lack of judgement is also a deal breaker.
Add that to going 116 miles an hour and going three miles before stopping for the police.
Then, doing "community service" for your own PAC (and incidentally being signed off by someone on his payroll.)

You would think that anyone running for attorney general would know better than to express himself in writing. But, I guess I'm glad he did. He just revealed himself to Virginia. And, yet, there are still people on this forum who support him. Very, very troubling.

This is an opportunity for Democrats to show they’ve not completely lost their minds. So far, they seem to be doing this opposite.

The ballots have been printed. Many people have voted already. What exactly are they supposed to do?

Suck it up and vote for the guy who isn’t perfect but will protect Virginians from Trump.

The guy who wants to put 2 bullets in someone’s head???


Are you kidding.

If he wins, Democrats will lose VA next election and have no creditability.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh now we care about the morality of candidates????

GOP started the trend, so now Dems have to keep up. Same with mid decade gerrymandering. We live in a banana republic. It is what it is.

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Where was Miyares when ICE was infringing on the rights of Virginia’s legal residents?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna195406
“Machado said the experience shook his faith in Trump's immigration enforcement efforts.

“I was a Trump supporter,” he said. “I voted for Trump last election."

Machado said he thought the Trump administration would "just go against criminals, not every Hispanic looking, like, that they will assume that we are all illegals.”

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Content aside. Any adult that would memorialize these comments in text messages show incredibly poor judgement and should not be rewarded with elective office.

Aside from the expressed thoughts, the lack of judgement is also a deal breaker.
Add that to going 116 miles an hour and going three miles before stopping for the police.
Then, doing "community service" for your own PAC (and incidentally being signed off by someone on his payroll.)

You would think that anyone running for attorney general would know better than to express himself in writing. But, I guess I'm glad he did. He just revealed himself to Virginia. And, yet, there are still people on this forum who support him. Very, very troubling.

This is an opportunity for Democrats to show they’ve not completely lost their minds. So far, they seem to be doing this opposite.

The ballots have been printed. Many people have voted already. What exactly are they supposed to do?

Suck it up and vote for the guy who isn’t perfect but will protect Virginians from Trump.

The guy who wants to put 2 bullets in someone’s head???


Are you kidding.

If he wins, Democrats will lose VA next election and have no creditability.

The guy who is passionate about our rights and maybe went a little overboard. It wasn’t a real threat. It was a hyperbolic hypothetical with Hitler, etc.

If he wins, we will have a chance to fight back against Trump.

If he doesn’t win, Miyares will support Trump’s next Big Lie. You might be ok enabling MAGA but most of us aren’t.

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Content aside. Any adult that would memorialize these comments in text messages show incredibly poor judgement and should not be rewarded with elective office.

Aside from the expressed thoughts, the lack of judgement is also a deal breaker.
Add that to going 116 miles an hour and going three miles before stopping for the police.
Then, doing "community service" for your own PAC (and incidentally being signed off by someone on his payroll.)

You would think that anyone running for attorney general would know better than to express himself in writing. But, I guess I'm glad he did. He just revealed himself to Virginia. And, yet, there are still people on this forum who support him. Very, very troubling.

This is an opportunity for Democrats to show they’ve not completely lost their minds. So far, they seem to be doing this opposite.

The ballots have been printed. Many people have voted already. What exactly are they supposed to do?

Suck it up and vote for the guy who isn’t perfect but will protect Virginians from Trump.

The guy who wants to put 2 bullets in someone’s head???


Are you kidding.

If he wins, Democrats will lose VA next election and have no creditability.

The guy who is passionate about our rights and maybe went a little overboard. It wasn’t a real threat. It was a hyperbolic hypothetical with Hitler, etc.

If he wins, we will have a chance to fight back against Trump.

If he doesn’t win, Miyares will support Trump’s next Big Lie. You might be ok enabling MAGA but most of us aren’t.

You are posting within your own echo chamber. The fact that you are justifying what Jones said as just a “little hyperbolic” and a “little overboard” is every bit as disgusting as the MAGAs you abhor.

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Gilbert was part of the VA GOP crowd who wanted to force women to get invasive transvaginal ultrasounds.

He called abortion a “lifestyle convenience”.

I get why Jones hated him.

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Content aside. Any adult that would memorialize these comments in text messages show incredibly poor judgement and should not be rewarded with elective office.

Aside from the expressed thoughts, the lack of judgement is also a deal breaker.
Add that to going 116 miles an hour and going three miles before stopping for the police.
Then, doing "community service" for your own PAC (and incidentally being signed off by someone on his payroll.)

You would think that anyone running for attorney general would know better than to express himself in writing. But, I guess I'm glad he did. He just revealed himself to Virginia. And, yet, there are still people on this forum who support him. Very, very troubling.

This is an opportunity for Democrats to show they’ve not completely lost their minds. So far, they seem to be doing this opposite.

The ballots have been printed. Many people have voted already. What exactly are they supposed to do?

Suck it up and vote for the guy who isn’t perfect but will protect Virginians from Trump.

The guy who wants to put 2 bullets in someone’s head???


Are you kidding.

If he wins, Democrats will lose VA next election and have no creditability.

The guy who is passionate about our rights and maybe went a little overboard. It wasn’t a real threat. It was a hyperbolic hypothetical with Hitler, etc.

If he wins, we will have a chance to fight back against Trump.

If he doesn’t win, Miyares will support Trump’s next Big Lie. You might be ok enabling MAGA but most of us aren’t.

You are posting within your own echo chamber. The fact that you are justifying what Jones said as just a “little hyperbolic” and a “little overboard” is every bit as disgusting as the MAGAs you abhor.

BoTh sIDeS

F u

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Anonymous wrote:It’s October. These are the candidates on the ballot. Deal with it like an adult instead of throwing a tantrum.

And own it if you are ok with MAGA. No one is forcing you. There is a better option.

You said the same thing when we were staring at the Biden v. Trump choice. At some point how are Democrats not learning to put up better candidates instead of berating voters about casting a ballot for their terrible candidate or else MAGA. Do better. This is why the party is so unpopular even in the era of Trump.

So to “teach” Democrats a lesson you’re going to fck us all over.

So irrational.

Grow TF up.

Nope, the Dems f*cked us all over by putting up Jay Jones for AG. I am not voting for Jay Jones because he is completely unfit for the job that he is running for. I am not going to eat a sh!t sandwich to cover for the Dems inability to run a qualified person for AG. And I’m not the only one with this perspective, but keep screaming into the void. *Shrug*

Go nuts. At least admit that you think MAGA is an acceptable outcome.

And Jay Jones is?

Yes. He got a speeding ticket and sent a text. It wasn’t an actual threat, just bad taste.

Get a grip.

It wasn’t a threat he wanted to shoot
Someone and their kids? How far will you go to rationalize that this person is not fit to be AG?

Was he actually threatening to shoot anyone? Hitler? No, it was obviously a hypothetical.

Poor taste but not an actual threat.

Here is some of the texts you think aren't so bad:

Jones then mused about a scenario in which he had two bullets and could choose to fire them at Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot — the brutal Cambodian dictator — or then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R).

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

The text conversation continued after the call ended. In those further texts, Coyner suggested that Jones had also talked about Gilbert’s children dying in the arms of their mother, Jennifer.

“You weren’t trying to understand,” Coyner texted. “You were talking about hopping [sic] jennifer Gilbert’s children would die”
“Yes, I’ve told you this before,” Jones replied. “Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”

If a Republican said this about any Democrat you would be screaming to high heavens. The fact you think this isn't so bad says more about you are your willingness to excuse this.

I am guessing his point was around gun violence. Would it take having their own kids shot to convince Rs to support common sense gun control?

We don’t know exactly what was said or the context.

Speeding and bad taste texts? I’d still take him over MAGA.

The bar is truly so low now thanks to the Republicans that he honestly still has a lot of leeway.

The texts were posted. They were exactly what was said. There’s no context this is acceptable. The fact you are trying to downplay this is just ridiculous.

No we don’t know what was said in the conversation. We don’t have the full context.

This guy drove too fast and wrote some poor taste texts.

I’ll take that any day over someone willing to throw away our rights.

Exactly what context are we missing when this guy wrote he wanted to put 2 bullets in the head of his opponent, anted his kids to die in their mother’s arms and then double down on the comments?

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MAGA Miyares stands with Trump.

Miyares has NOT held Trump accountable for illegally withholding funding for our Virginia schools.
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/two-dozen-states-sue-trump-over-6-8-billion-school-funding-freeze/2025/07

Miyares has done nothing about tariffs.

Miyares has done nothing about federal worker layoffs.

Miyares will support Trump’s next Big Lie.

He has to go.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s October. These are the candidates on the ballot. Deal with it like an adult instead of throwing a tantrum.

And own it if you are ok with MAGA. No one is forcing you. There is a better option.

You said the same thing when we were staring at the Biden v. Trump choice. At some point how are Democrats not learning to put up better candidates instead of berating voters about casting a ballot for their terrible candidate or else MAGA. Do better. This is why the party is so unpopular even in the era of Trump.

So to “teach” Democrats a lesson you’re going to fck us all over.

So irrational.

Grow TF up.

Nope, the Dems f*cked us all over by putting up Jay Jones for AG. I am not voting for Jay Jones because he is completely unfit for the job that he is running for. I am not going to eat a sh!t sandwich to cover for the Dems inability to run a qualified person for AG. And I’m not the only one with this perspective, but keep screaming into the void. *Shrug*

Go nuts. At least admit that you think MAGA is an acceptable outcome.

And Jay Jones is?

Yes. He got a speeding ticket and sent a text. It wasn’t an actual threat, just bad taste.

Get a grip.

It wasn’t a threat he wanted to shoot
Someone and their kids? How far will you go to rationalize that this person is not fit to be AG?

Was he actually threatening to shoot anyone? Hitler? No, it was obviously a hypothetical.

Poor taste but not an actual threat.

Here is some of the texts you think aren't so bad:

Jones then mused about a scenario in which he had two bullets and could choose to fire them at Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot — the brutal Cambodian dictator — or then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R).

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

The text conversation continued after the call ended. In those further texts, Coyner suggested that Jones had also talked about Gilbert’s children dying in the arms of their mother, Jennifer.

“You weren’t trying to understand,” Coyner texted. “You were talking about hopping [sic] jennifer Gilbert’s children would die”
“Yes, I’ve told you this before,” Jones replied. “Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”

If a Republican said this about any Democrat you would be screaming to high heavens. The fact you think this isn't so bad says more about you are your willingness to excuse this.

I am guessing his point was around gun violence. Would it take having their own kids shot to convince Rs to support common sense gun control?

We don’t know exactly what was said or the context.

Speeding and bad taste texts? I’d still take him over MAGA.

The bar is truly so low now thanks to the Republicans that he honestly still has a lot of leeway.

The texts were posted. They were exactly what was said. There’s no context this is acceptable. The fact you are trying to downplay this is just ridiculous.

No we don’t know what was said in the conversation. We don’t have the full context.

This guy drove too fast and wrote some poor taste texts.

I’ll take that any day over someone willing to throw away our rights.

Exactly what context are we missing when this guy wrote he wanted to put 2 bullets in the head of his opponent, anted his kids to die in their mother’s arms and then double down on the comments?

The entire phone call is missing. You don’t know what was said or even what led up to the conversation. You don’t know the tone.

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I can’t believe someone who texts has no prior history that hasn’t been unearthed throughout his career. How in the world did he get on the ballot?

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Anonymous wrote:Where was Miyares when ICE was infringing on the rights of Virginia’s legal residents?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna195406
“Machado said the experience shook his faith in Trump's immigration enforcement efforts.

“I was a Trump supporter,” he said. “I voted for Trump last election."

Machado said he thought the Trump administration would "just go against criminals, not every Hispanic looking, like, that they will assume that we are all illegals.”

Did you even read the article? They were looking for someone who had given his address as their home. They let him go. It seems the two people with him were taken into custody.

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*someone who texts like that

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe someone who texts has no prior history that hasn’t been unearthed throughout his career. How in the world did he get on the ballot?

I saw one report that he went to private school and his parents are both judges.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s October. These are the candidates on the ballot. Deal with it like an adult instead of throwing a tantrum.

And own it if you are ok with MAGA. No one is forcing you. There is a better option.

You said the same thing when we were staring at the Biden v. Trump choice. At some point how are Democrats not learning to put up better candidates instead of berating voters about casting a ballot for their terrible candidate or else MAGA. Do better. This is why the party is so unpopular even in the era of Trump.

So to “teach” Democrats a lesson you’re going to fck us all over.

So irrational.

Grow TF up.

Nope, the Dems f*cked us all over by putting up Jay Jones for AG. I am not voting for Jay Jones because he is completely unfit for the job that he is running for. I am not going to eat a sh!t sandwich to cover for the Dems inability to run a qualified person for AG. And I’m not the only one with this perspective, but keep screaming into the void. *Shrug*

Go nuts. At least admit that you think MAGA is an acceptable outcome.

And Jay Jones is?

Yes. He got a speeding ticket and sent a text. It wasn’t an actual threat, just bad taste.

Get a grip.

It wasn’t a threat he wanted to shoot
Someone and their kids? How far will you go to rationalize that this person is not fit to be AG?

Was he actually threatening to shoot anyone? Hitler? No, it was obviously a hypothetical.

Poor taste but not an actual threat.

Here is some of the texts you think aren't so bad:

Jones then mused about a scenario in which he had two bullets and could choose to fire them at Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot — the brutal Cambodian dictator — or then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R).

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

The text conversation continued after the call ended. In those further texts, Coyner suggested that Jones had also talked about Gilbert’s children dying in the arms of their mother, Jennifer.

“You weren’t trying to understand,” Coyner texted. “You were talking about hopping [sic] jennifer Gilbert’s children would die”
“Yes, I’ve told you this before,” Jones replied. “Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”

If a Republican said this about any Democrat you would be screaming to high heavens. The fact you think this isn't so bad says more about you are your willingness to excuse this.

I am guessing his point was around gun violence. Would it take having their own kids shot to convince Rs to support common sense gun control?

We don’t know exactly what was said or the context.

Speeding and bad taste texts? I’d still take him over MAGA.

The bar is truly so low now thanks to the Republicans that he honestly still has a lot of leeway.

The texts were posted. They were exactly what was said. There’s no context this is acceptable. The fact you are trying to downplay this is just ridiculous.

No we don’t know what was said in the conversation. We don’t have the full context.

This guy drove too fast and wrote some poor taste texts.

I’ll take that any day over someone willing to throw away our rights.

Exactly what context are we missing when this guy wrote he wanted to put 2 bullets in the head of his opponent, anted his kids to die in their mother’s arms and then double down on the comments?

The entire phone call is missing. You don’t know what was said or even what led up to the conversation. You don’t know the tone.

Are you purposely ignoring the texts? And I might add that jones has not denied anything that was written about the phone call.