[Source](https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/wedva-dems-brush-jones-spanberger-scandals-gop-mounts-october-offensive) > Virginia Democrats appeared poised to sweep the top offices of the Old Dominion in its upcoming state elections as the party rank and file ignore a pair of extremism scandals involving their top-ticket candidates. > Both gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger and attorney general candidate Jay Jones have found themselves mired in public scrutiny in the past few days. Spanberger’s past employment at a Saudi-controlled school with known links to Hamas reentered the news in recent days. > More shocking perhaps, is a number of Democrats turning a bind eye to text chats involving Jones fantasizing about the deaths of his political opponents and their children.