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Church congregation told to ignore Dem candidate’s text calling for assassination of former GOP speaker, his kids

October 6, 2025 | | Print Article

The party of violent rhetoric appeared to further embrace hate when Virginia’s House speaker put politics first, warning constituents from a pulpit to not “get distracted” by scandalous text messages.

Despite the assassination of Charlie Kirk within a year of multiple attempts on President Donald Trump’s life, and a reported 1000% uptick of violence against federal agents, leftists have yet to quit their the demonization of conservatives.

Now, as an October surprise rocked the Virginia race for attorney general after the Democratic nominee was revealed to have once fantasized about the death of a Republican delegate and his family, the current Speaker of the House of Delegates Don Scott (D) pushed back against calls for former Del. Jay Jones (D) to drop out of the race, suggesting voters be “mature” in how they vote.

Addressing congregants at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church on Sunday, Scott said, “So we need to understand something. We have to be mature in our thinking and how we vote. We can’t get distracted cause they want us to get distracted by a text message here or something else — stay focused.”

The remarks begged questions from commentator Erick Erickson who shared the remarks with a caption that read in part that Jones’ called “for the assassination of the prior Speaker and murder of his kids because…politics. Where is The Bulwark? Where are Dem leaders?” as RedState’s Bonchie suggested, “If your church is holding political rallies, much less political rallies that excuse calls for murder, find a different church.”

Worth noting, Scott received a pardon from outgoing President Joe Biden on his last full day in office for his 1994 conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine for which he spent seven years in prison. The same elected official had also seemingly suggested that congregants oppose Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) in her bid for governor as, “There’s gonna be always folks that look like us that may not have our best interest in mind.”

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Of course, the Virginia speaker wasn’t alone in downplaying Jones’ texts which had imagined a scenario where then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R) would get “two bullets to the head” before referring to the man’s children as “little fascists” whose deaths would potentially motivate him to change his policy.

Neera Tanden, former senior advisor to then-President Joe Biden, had appeared on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” Sunday where she took a less severe lane in encouraging viewers to remember the messages were from a “private conversation.”

Marc Short, once chief of staff to then-Vice President Mike Pence, had said, “Can we stop with the pearl clutching about the mean tweets and sombrero tweets? This week, it came to light that a Democratic candidate for attorney general in the state of Virginia called for the assassination of a political opponent, called for the assassination of that political opponent’s family, and there’s not one national Democrat calling for him to step aside. Not one. It’s disgraceful.”

To that, Tanden had been given the floor and responded, “I absolutely think that people should criticize that, 100%. I think it was a private conversation he had, but still awful and disgusting … It should be condemned.”

“But then — we should condemn that — but then you should condemn when the president calls the Democratic Party, the party of Satan,” she fired back in an effort to both sides the argument.

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No matter the effort to contain the fallout from Jones’ text messages, it appeared the matter had the potential to be a defining issue in the final weeks of the race.

So much so in fact that Earle-Sears shared a new political ad featuring her rival, former Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D), not only embracing Jones, but telling voters to “Let your rage fuel you,” as others suggested the lack of Democrats calling on the AG nominee to drop out was “because they more or less agree with him.”

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