Virginia Republican who shared violent texts from prominent Democrat loses re-election

Carrie Coyner conceded defeat after igniting text scandal over Democrat imagining two bullets' in rival's head

The Virginia Republican politician who shook up multiple statewide elections by disclosing text messages in which a prominent Democratic candidate fantasized about a rival receiving two bullets to the head" has conceded defeat in her own bid to retain office.

Carrie Coyner was seeking a third two-year term in Virginia's house of delegates when she publicly shared the text messages that she had previously received from Jay Jones, a former Democratic colleague who ran in the state's attorney general election on Tuesday.