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A Republican candidate backed by President Donald Trump, who is locked in a tight purple state race, got some good polling news on Monday.<\/p>\n

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Jason Miyares, the incumbent GOP attorney general of Virginia, has surged ahead of his highly controversial Democratic challenger, Jay Jones, according to a Quantus Insights survey.<\/p>\n

Miyares has not only closed the gap with Jones, but he has also taken a 7-point lead, 49-42 percent, with 7 percent undecided and 2 percent choosing other candidates.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Virginia politics were thrown into turmoil after screenshots surfaced of three-year-old private text messages in which Jones fantasized about shooting then-GOP House Speaker Todd Gilbert and his children.<\/p>\n

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The Virginia Monitor\u00a0noted<\/a>: \u201cThe National Review story revealed an August 2022 exchange between Jones \u2014 a former Norfolk delegate and one-time assistant attorney general \u2014 and Del. Carrie Coyner, R-Chesterfield. In the texts, Jones described a scenario in which Gilbert \u2018gets two bullets to the head,\u2019 followed by a wish that the Republican lawmaker\u2019s children \u2018die in their mother\u2019s arms.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe messages, sent shortly after Gilbert offered public condolences\u00a0over the death<\/a>\u00a0of retired Democratic Del. Joe Johnson of Washington County, stunned political circles across Virginia and beyond. Coyner confirmed the authenticity of the exchange in a statement Friday evening, calling the remarks \u201cdisgusting and unbecoming of any public official,\u201d the outlet added.<\/p>\n