Vance says Jay Jones' violent texts worse than Republican group chat leak

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Vice President JD Vance shrugged off the outrage on Wednesday a couple of leaked group chat from younger conservatives, arguing this pales compared to the uncovered texts from Virginia Democratic lawyer basic candidate Jay Jones.

Vice President JD Vance and President Donald Trump separately slammed Democrats who proceed to again Virginia lawyer basic candidate Jones as his marketing campaign unravels over texts envisioning the homicide of a former prime Republican lawmaker and his younger youngsters.

Jones — who sent messages claiming he would gladly shoot former Virginia Home Speaker Todd Gilbert — will face off with incumbent Legal professional Basic Jason Miyares on the College of Richmond on Thursday of their sole debate.

Vance additionally tweeted and spoke in regards to the outrage over a leaked group chat, first reported by Politico, by which younger Republican activists — many from New York, despatched texts that included mentions of Adolf Hitler, racial slurs, and different offensive statements, lots of which can have been jokes typical of Era Z’s offensive and absurdist sense of shock-value-based humor.

VIRGINIA DEM JAY JONES’ FATHERHOOD-THEMED POST SPARKS OUTRAGE OVER PAST TEXT WISHING HARM TO REPUBLICAN'S KIDS

Vice President JD Vance delivers remarks at Hatch Stamping on September 17, 2025 in Howell, Michigan. (Invoice Pugliano/Getty Photos)

Vance shared a screenshot of Jones' texts hoping a Republican colleague’s youngsters would die and wrote, "That is far worse than something stated in a school group chat, and the man who stated it may turn out to be the AG of Virginia. I refuse to affix the pearl-clutching when highly effective individuals name for political violence."

Vance responded to the incident additional on the late Charlie Kirk’s podcast, noting "an individual who may be very politically highly effective, who's about to turn out to be one of the crucial highly effective regulation enforcement officers within the nation, that particular person severely wishing for political violence and political assassination is 1,000 instances worse than what a bunch of younger individuals, a bunch of children say in a bunch chat, nonetheless offensive it is perhaps. That is simply the truth."

He added additional, "And in the event you enable your self to be distracted by this particular person's unimaginable endorsement, disgusting endorsement of political assassination by specializing in what children are saying in a bunch chat, develop up."

TRUMP, VANCE BLAST DEMOCRATS FOR BACKING VIRGINIA AG CANDIDATE OVER TEXTS FANTASIZING GOP LAWMAKER’S MURDER

Virginia lawyer basic candidate Jay Jones speaks at an occasion in Norfolk, Virginia. (Trevor Metcalfe/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune Information Service through Getty Photos)

Vance famous that at this time’s world may be very completely different from the one the place he grew up, one the place one should be extraordinarily cautious about being scrutinized for offensive jokes, "however the actuality is that children do silly issues, particularly younger boys, they inform edgy, offensive jokes… I actually don’t need us to develop up in a rustic the place the place a child telling a silly joke — telling a really offensive, silly joke is trigger to spoil their lives."

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Vice President JD Vance argued that younger males's lives shouldn't be ruined for saying offensive jokes on-line. (Alex Brandon, Pool/AP Picture)

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He alluded to the phenomenon of cancel tradition that has been ubiquitous in America for years, arguing it's time to reject such techniques for good.

"And in some unspecified time in the future, we're all going to need to say, 'Sufficient of this BS. We're not going to permit the worst second in a 21-year-old's group chat to spoil a child's life for the remainder of time,'" he stated.