Watch if You Dare: 65 Painful Seconds of Winsome Earle-Sears' Opponent Struggling to Dodge Jay Jones and His Death Fantasies

What was supposed to be the Democratic Party’s big comeback story in 2025 is collapsing under the weight of its own moral rot.

In Virginia, Rep. Abigail Spanberger, the Democrats’ much-hyped “moderate” candidate for governor, spent more than a minute during Thursday’s debate refusing to answer the simplest possible question: Will you withdraw your endorsement of a man who joked about murdering Republicans?

Her silence said it all.

The controversy centers on Jay Jones, the Virginia Democrats’ nominee for attorney general, whose vile text messages recently surfaced. In 2022, Jones wrote: “Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”

He was referring to Todd Gilbert, the Republican speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. Jones later offered a half-hearted apology, claiming he took “full responsibility,” while Spanberger brushed it off by saying he “must fully take responsibility for his words.”

But new allegations made things even worse: a Republican lawmaker said Jones once told her that “maybe if a few of them [cops] died, that they would move on, not shooting people, not killing people.” Jones denied that remark — but hasn’t been seen in public since. His campaign is reportedly in “crisis mode.”

When Spanberger was asked point-blank during the debate if she would still support Jones, she responded with a 65-second word salad that could have been written by an AI trained on DNC talking points:

“Uh, in fact, it appears that it was the, uh, those who released the text messages and held them for years... the voters now have the information and it is up to voters, uh, to make an individual choice based on this information.”

Translation: No. She won’t un-endorse him.

Pressed again, Spanberger pivoted to the usual “I’m running my own race” cliché — pretending she could just wash her hands of the matter.

Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, who’s running against Spanberger, wasn’t having it. “You have little girls,” Earle-Sears said, referring to Jones’ other appalling text about a GOP colleague’s children. “Would it take him pulling the trigger? Is that what would do it, and then you would say he needs to get out of the race? Abigail, you have nothing to say?”

Spanberger had nothing to say.

Even CNN, usually quick to frame such scandals as “Republicans pounce,” couldn’t ignore her glaring lack of decency — though the network still managed to make Earle-Sears’ outrage the story instead of the Democrats’ moral collapse.

Let’s be clear: under Virginia law, Jay Jones can’t take his name off the ballot. But that’s no excuse for Spanberger’s cowardice. If she truly believed in decency or accountability, she’d disavow him publicly — not hide behind process excuses and political spin.

The Democratic Party once prided itself on being the “party of compassion.” Now, in Virginia, New York, and New Jersey, its candidates are consumed by internal feuds, ideological extremism, and moral blindness. From pro-“intifada” activists in New York to violent rhetoric in Virginia, Democrats have normalized hatred and violence in the name of politics.

Meanwhile, President Donald J. Trump’s administration continues to project leadership and law-and-order values across the nation — values voters in Virginia are now comparing to the chaos and weakness of the Democratic Party.

If this race was supposed to be the Democrats’ 2025 redemption, it’s turned into something far different: a public demonstration of what happens when a political movement loses its soul.