VA-AG: Jones (D) falls even with Miyares (R) in Virginia attorney general race amid scandal: Poll
New polling signals it may be a close call between incumbent Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) and Democratic nominee Jay Jones, despite controversy surrounding the latter’s recently resurfaced text messages.
A new survey, released Wednesday by The Washington Post/Schar School, found Miyares and Jones in lockstep with roughly 46 percent support each among likely voters. The numbers mark a 5 percentage point drop for the Democratic candidate in comparison with a similar poll from last month.
Reporting surfaced earlier this month about leaked texts from 2022 when Jones said if given the choice between former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, former Cambodian dictator Pol Pot and former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R), Gilbert would get “two bullets.”
He added at the time that it would take the former lawmaker’s wife “holding their dying children in her arms” for Gilbert to move on gun control.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5569902-jay-jones-jason-miyares-virginia-ag-race-poll-text-controversy/