Abigail Spanberger is raging and smirking he way through her gubernatorial campaign, and the gamblers at Polymarket are still certain that she will win her race for governor. I fear they are correct, although the polling is at least temporarily showing that she has been hurt by the Jay Jones scandal.
Brutal ad that drives home how terrible Abigail Spanberger's debate strategy was pic.twitter.com/HQfgMSxrc0
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) October 10, 2025
Currently, she is at a 93% chance of victory.
Jones, at least, is not still favored to win, but his loss is still not a sure thing. He has about a 40% chance of victory.
I've written a number of times about this race because, well, Spanberger's resilience in the face of her continued support for Jones is really depressing to me. It says something horrific about the current state of our politics. We live in a time when the Democratic Party has developed an assassination culture. Celebrating, or even fantasizing about the death of Republicans is perfectly acceptable.
To put this sentiment in perspective, think back only a few years ago--2019--when a yearbook photo of Governor Northam surfaced with him wearing a racist costume. It seems unlikely that he was actually celebrating the KKK--the costume was likely meant to be ironic, if in terrible taste--but it ignited a firestorm that resulted with almost his entire party denouncing him and calling for his resignation. Megyn Kelly was fired from her job at NBC because she wondered why wearing blackfare was considered so taboo.
Wearing blackface was the worst sin imaginable, and Abigail Spanberger joined the chorus of Democrats demanding that Northam, a fellow Democrat, resign.
Northam's yearbook page. Spanberger's call for Northam to resign pic.twitter.com/OMJdBbF6Vf
— (((CvilleBubble))) (@CvilleBubble) October 12, 2025
Today, the Democratic Party of Virginia seems perfectly happy to continue endorsing Jay Jones to be the highest law enforcement official in the state, despite his fantasizing about the murder of the Virginia House of Delegates and his children.
🚨NEW: Walter Kirn on Abigail Spanberger’s Continued Endorsement of Jay Jones:
— Walter Curt (@WCdispatch_) October 13, 2025
“We just fell down another flight of stairs into hell by even tolerating this guy for 5 seconds.”
It really is that bad, the absolute cowardice of the Democrats to confront their radical fringe must… pic.twitter.com/RVGUfl61dR
Wearing a costume decades ago--the offense took place in 1984, so 35 years in the past--is worse than a recent argument that a man should be shot and his children die in their mother's arms.
Let that sink in. Marinate in the bile, and tell me that the Democrats are still a political party worth supporting.
In 2019, Virginia Democrats called for Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s resignation when reports uncovered he had posed either in blackface or a KKK uniform in a picture in his 1984 medical school yearbook. The fact that no prominent Virginia Democrat has yet called on their party’s nominee for Attorney General, Jay Jones, to quit the race after reports showed he had wanted to see the GOP House Speaker and his children killed for their political views tells you all you need to know about today’s Democratic Party.
The overwhelming and nearly immediate calls for Northam’s resignation spanned virtually all major Democrats. The state Democratic Party and both of Virginia’s Democratic U.S. Senators pushed for it. Nationally prominent Democrats such as 2016 presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi concurred. The party’s gubernatorial nominee in this year’s election, former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, joined the parade, saying the “bigotry displayed in this photograph is appalling”.
The 35-year-old Northam photo was a national scandal, although Northam survived it because he refused to resign, while Democrats are smirking and remaining silent about Jones, whom they continue to support.
🚨NEW: Former Congressman Dave Brat on Spanberger’s disastrous debate performance:
— Walter Curt (@WCdispatch_) October 11, 2025
“I think that little smirk at the end is all you need to see. The attitude, the conscious, the moral voice.. it’s just missing.”
Smiling and gritting her teeth, refusing to even look at her.
It… pic.twitter.com/9SmxrcIflD
Wearing an offensive costume was a worse offense than killing Republicans.
Spanberger has expressed her “disgust” for his statements, but has not withdrawn her support for him. The state Democratic Party chairman, Lamont Bagby, says the texts are not something “anyone should end their political bid over.” Sen. Tim Kaine, who said that Northam’s 35-year-old photo had “broken the trust Virginians must have in their leaders” as he called for Northam’s resignation, says that Jones’ texts are “indefensible” but “out of character” and remains supportive of Jones’ campaign.
The verdict is in and it’s unanimous. For Virginia Democrats, racists are out, and would-be murderers are in.
That should shock everyone. The fact that it apparently does not is also telling. Such is the degree of political polarization among Democrats that the enemy of my enemy — President Donald Trump and the Republican Party — that even direct expressions of support for political violence can be tolerated and rationalized.
This is part of a larger pattern in which Democrats cheer on assassins and promote violence against their political opponents. The Charlie Kirk assassination prompted celebrations among liberals, with some even putting together follow up lists. Luigi Mangione's murder of a healthcare executive evoked many "I don't approve of violence, but..." responses, and more than a few expressions of approval.
BREAKING: The woman who held up this sickening racist sign to protest Winsome Sears, has been identified as a campaign volunteer for Virginia Governor Democrat nominee Abigail Spanberger pic.twitter.com/uz6pl0yUqs
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 22, 2025
Pravda commentators keep insisting that this is a "both sides" problem, but you cannot find examples of prominent Republicans--or more than a few conservatives prominent or not--calling for the death of Democrats, and no celebrations of murders. It is not a thing.
The Democrats are currently busy defending Antifa, an organization that exists to commit violence. Pravda is busy spreading the absurd propaganda that it is imaginary.
The left has a political violence fetish, and I think it will only get worse. Over the past year there have been a number of assassination attempts, ambushes of ICE agents, mass shootings against Christians who oppose transgender surgery and hormone therapy for minors, and of course the assassinations of Charlie Kirk and Brian Thompson.
The Democrats rallying around Jay Jones is quite on brand, unfortunately.
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