Things are not going well for Jay Jones. Maybe he could have survived his disgusting comments about a fellow legislator and that person's wife and children. But then yesterday we learned that Jones had previously made similar comments about police officers, suggesting that if a few more cops were shot and killed, they wouldn't be as likely to shoot people.
If you missed this, I wrote about it yesterday. Unfortunately the earlier conversation about police wasn't over text messages so we don't have the proof it happened. Jones denied it, but the story is coming from the same Republican lawmaker who those other texts were sent to. During that exchange Jones said, "Yes, I've told you this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy." That was a direct reference to the previous conversation in which Jones had told the same Republican lawmaker "Well, maybe if a few of them [cops] died, that they would move on, not shooting people, not killing people." At the time, Jones was sponsoring a bill aimed at ending qualified immunity for police.
By this morning, the Fraternal Order of Police of Virginia was calling on Jones to drop out of the race. Instead of fading away, the story seemed to be building. And yet, he was still getting support from prominent Democrats. This morning Sen. Tim Kaine said he was still a supporter.
Democrat Virginia Senator Tim Kaine STILL backs Jay Jones, who fantasized about killing a Republican official and his children, and also supports killing cops.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 7, 2025
KAINE: “I'm still supporting Jay Jones.” pic.twitter.com/3EXIFaGDXa
But behind the scenes, things just be getting desperate. This afternoon, Axios is reporting that Jones has canceled a Thursday night fund raiser at the home of author James Baldacci.
Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for attorney general in Virginia, has canceled a Thursday night fundraiser at the home of novelist David Baldacci, according to a person with [knowledge of] the matter.
The scrubbed fundraiser is another indication that Jones' campaign is in crisis mode...
Jones had not held a public event since Friday night...
A representative for the Jones campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Obviously, canceling a fundraiser is probably the last thing you do in the midst of a crisis. Unlike a public even open to the public and the media, a private fundraiser made up of your top supporters is going to be a place where you can easily present your side of the story and expect it to be heard. So the fact that this has been canceled at the last minute means one of two things.
Either Baldacci himself pulled out because he was repulsed by Jones' comments or Jones is on the verge of dropping out of the race. Obviously if he's dropping out, there's no need to attend another fundraiser asking for money.
Of the two I think it's probably the latter. I'd guess Jones is hearing from a lot of panicky Democrats who are nervous that his comments could drag them all down. Dropping out is the only way to insulate his problems from the party at large.
And frankly, the skeletons in Jones's closet don't seem eager to go away. Just today, Washington DC's ABC affiliate, which is widely read and watched in northern Virginia, ran a story about Jones' speeding issue and the curious way in which he managed to avoid losing his license. In 2022, Jones was caught driving 116 mph on the freeway where the speed limit was 70.
If you were caught driving 46 miles per hour over the speed limit in Virginia, would you expect to serve jail time or at least have your license suspended or driving privileges restricted? Those are the kinds of consequences many Virginia drivers have had to face but Jay Jones did not...
Court records show, one man was found guilty of driving 115 mph in a 70 in New Kent County. He got 10 days in jail, his license was suspended for six months, he was fined $2,000, and once he got his license back, he could only drive to and from work.
On the same day Jones received his sentence, a Woodbridge man was sentenced to 30 days in jail for driving 115 mph in a 70-mph zone. The Prince William County man’s sentence was suspended as long as he didn’t speed again. The Woodbridge man’s license was suspended for six months, then restricted, and he was fined $1,500...
Jones, a former Virginia lawmaker, got no jail time for driving 116 mph in a 70 on I-64. He paid a $1,500 fine, his driving privileges were not impacted and he got 1,000 hours of community service.
And of course his community service hours were half accumulated at his place of work at the time, which seems pretty unusual.
All that to say, it's possible Jay Jones is reaching the breaking point and the canceled fundraiser is a sign of that. But that's just a guess at this point so we'll have to wait and see where this goes next. On the other hand, I just looked and he's still tweeting about the shutdown today so he doesn't seem fully resigned to resignation yet.
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