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A series of violent" texts sent by a Democrat seeking to become Virginia's attorney general has shaken up the state's governor's race, with Republican candidate Winsome Earle-Sears seizing on the controversy to try to reverse her opponent's double-digit polling lead.

Earle-Sears has released new campaign advertisements condemning Democratic former congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, her opponenent in the governor's race, for continuing to support Jay Jones, whose private texts three years ago speculated about a senior state Republican getting two bullets to the head" and breeding little fascists".