BREAKING: Abigail Spanberger REFUSES to pull endorsement for Jay Jones during debate with Winsome Earle-Sears

Abigail Spanberger has refused to withdraw her support from Jay Jones after it was revealed that Democratic candidate for the Attorney General of Virginia called for the assassination of a GOP lawmaker in texts with a colleague in 2022.

Spanberger was asked point-blank by the moderators if she still endorsed Jones. "We just want to clarify. You know what you're saying is that as of now you still endorse Jay Jones as Attorney General," the moderator said as she pressed on the question multiple times. Spanberger avoided the question and only emphasized that she would implement her own policy positions.

“It’s up to every voter to make their own individual decision," Spanberger responded. "I am running for governor. I am accountable for the words that I say, for the acts that I take, for the policies that I have put out. I am responsible for the policies I put out and the work I will endeavor to do tirelessly for the people Virginia."

The comments from Spanberger also come after it was reported that Jones also voiced support for the deaths of "a few" police officers were killed law enforcement would stop "killing people."

Jones had been speaking to GOP House Delegate Carrie Coyner on a text chain when he made the the remark about former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, "Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, hitler and pol pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head. Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time."

After those texts were revealed, Coyner also told reporters that she had been debating Jones at one time on police policy, and she recounted, "We (Coyner and Jones) had a pretty heated conversation about public policy and pain involving qualified immunity. I served on the Courts Committee for a short period of time. A bill to remove qualified immunity for police officers, which protects police officers from personal liability in their line of duty and their line of work, and he believed that they should not have qualified immunity, and he was trying to convince me to agree with that, and I said, ‘No, police officers have to make a split-second decision about whether or not to shoot a gun to protect themselves or protect others. And if they’re having to think about, will this strip my whole family of everything … are they going to be able to make that split-second decision?’"

"And I said, ‘I believe that people will get killed. Police officers will get killed.’ And he said, ‘Well, maybe if a few of them died, that they would move on, not shooting people, not killing people.’ And I said, ‘that’s insane.’ But he firmly believed that if you removed qualified immunity, that police officers would act differently, and I firmly believe that it would not result in good public policy, and it would put police officers and the public’s lives at risk if they have to second-guess themselves on a decision they’re making in a moment where someone is doing something violent."