Jones' campaign took a dramatic turn in October when leaked text messages from 2022 showed Jones joking about “shooting then–House Speaker Todd Gilbert.”
Whoever wins will become the first woman to lead Virginia — and if it’s Earle-Sears, she’ll also be the first Black woman ever elected governor in any U.S. state.
“He has openly said, and his people have openly said at meetings, ‘We would never do anything while President Trump is president,’ because they know the consequences."