"I think there is a growing understanding that leadership and defending the status quo and the inequalities that exist in America is not where the American people are.”
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.