When a conservative get-out-the-vote operation sent text messages to voters in Virginia to ensure they’d seen Jay Jones’ texts fantasizing about murdering a political opponent and his children, the intent was to encourage recipients not to vote for Jones.

Instead, some recipients responded to the robotexts by agreeing with the violent sentiments.

The Family Foundation Action said some messages it received back were explicit death threats, which have since been referred to law enforcement. Remarkably, the group sent the message only to Democrats who were identified as being on the more moderate side, and whom they thought would be persuadable.

Even these “moderate” Democrats replied with messages like, “Thank God, we need to kill more Nazis”; “Conservatives are inhuman cretins. Thus they should be put down swiftly without remorse”; “MAGA = Nazis”; and “Good. I’d vote for him over the fascist any day.”

“This is what they have to say in reaction to being sent information on how Jay Jones wants the children of political opponents to die, just weeks after Charlie Kirk gets assassinated,” the PAC said. “This is who they are … Do not let Jay Jones and the monsters supporting him win.”

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Polling suggests that the attorney general’s race in Virginia is roughly tied, even after the National Review revealed the gruesome text messages, whose authenticity Jones acknowledged in an apology. It was also revealed that Jones had made similar comments about the police.

Americans have been shocked as no Democratic candidate, including his running mates Abigail Spanberger and Ghazala Hashmi, has called for him to drop out of the race for the commonwealth’s top law enforcement position.

Some groups have even appeared to denigrate their founding principles in order to maintain hard-line partisanship. Giffords PAC, a gun-control group founded by former Democratic congresswoman Gabby Giffords after she was shot by a nonpartisan maniac, is continuing to endorse Jones, despite his stated desire to shoot elected officials. Giffords PAC did not respond to The Daily Wire’s request for comment. Gabby Giffords is married to Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ).

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“Their silence speaks volumes about whether they actually believe in the principles they claim to champion,” Virginia state Sen. Glen Sturtevant, a Republican, told The Daily Wire. Jones has “shown he lacks the character and judgment this office requires. He needs to withdraw immediately,” he added.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that “on balance, he’s the better person” than his Republican rival — a suggestion that Democrats view Republicans as even worse than those with murderous fantasies aimed at political moderates. That’s even though Jones’ rival in the race, Jason Miyares, has been attorney general for the last four years, making him a known quantity and not a prospective “fascist.”

It’s a position not all that different from one expressed in Jones’ text messages: That if he had Hitler, Pol Pot, and Virginia’s then-House Speaker, a moderate Republican, in a room with two bullets, he’d shoot the Republican twice.

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WASHINGTON—Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has taken a lot of flak for his approach to the government shutdown, particularly a video the New York Democrat released on Monday.

“We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system,” Schumer said in the highly-produced video. “No f***ing way.”

The rest of the video is less profane, but no less controversial. Schumer goes on to reiterate the Democrats’ main argument for keeping the government shut down: Obamacare’s expanded tax credits would “expire” unless Congress passes the Democrats’ funding bill.

That turned out to be more controversial than the senator’s choice deployment of an f-bomb.

“Once again, Chuck Schumer is lying and hopes you just take his word for it,” Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) wrote in a reply to Schumer’s post. “The expiration date of these tax credits was set in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which Democrats passed without a single Republican vote. The sensible forms Republicans made to sustain the program did not cut Medicaid, and he knows this.”

“Looking for someone to blame for the health care crisis Americans are facing? Look in the mirror,” the Republican continued.

Schumer’s fellow New Yorker, Republican Rep. Mike Lawler, called the minority leader the “biggest schmuck in Washington.”

“50 years in elected office! Go the f**k home. It’s time,” he posted. “Open the government and get back to work. And if the ACA is working so well, why do we need COVID subsidies to make it affordable? Maybe it’s time to fix the system.”

Brian Blase, a former White House policy official and president of the Paragon Health Institute, whose scholars have heavily scrutinized the system in question, says the tax credits should be allowed to expire.

“Obamacare is the reason for high premiums in the individual market and why they are increasing. Not a single Republican voted for the COVID-era Obamacare subsidy add-ons that Democrats set to expire after 2025,” Blase told The Daily Wire. “Any Democrats are misleading the public and claiming that all the Obamacare subsidies are expiring. That is not true. The original subsidies are permanent and cover more than 80 percent of the premium for the typical enrollee.”

“The original subsidies have gotten more generous over time. In 2014, they covered about 68 percent of the typical enrollees’ premiums. Next year, after the COVID credits expire, they will cover more than 80 percent,” Blase continued.

While Democrats are largely united behind Schumer’s call for the extension of the Obamacare tax credits, some are unhappy with the party’s approach to the shutdown.

“It’s a sad day for our nation. Our government shuts down at midnight. I voted AYE to extend ACA tax credits because I support them—but I won’t vote for the chaos of shuttering our government,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) wrote on September 30, just before the government shut down. “My vote was [for] our country over my party.”

Schumer’s office did not respond to a request for comment.