WASHINGTON, DC – In this week’s “The Recast” newsletter from POLITICO, Brakkton Booker spotlights the significance of the attorney general race in Virginia, highlighting not only the important promise and real change Democratic nominee Jay Jones will bring to the Commonwealth, but also the AG office’s crucial role in protecting Virginias from the harms of the Trump administration.   

Booker writes, “…Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones, the son of prominent judges who can trace his African American family’s lineage back four generations in Virginia. In him, Democrats see the biggest weapon to fight back against Donald Trump, who they argue has inflicted irrevocable harm on the state, particularly with DOGE cuts that disproportionately impacted the northern Virginia suburbs outside Washington.” 

Key highlights: 

• “‘The most important office we absolutely need is the attorney general because this is the individual who will sue the brakes off the Trump administration,’ Virginia Del. Joshua Cole told a gathering of roughly two dozen veterans gathered in the city of Stafford, a short drive from Marine Corps Base Quantico.”
  

• “The attorney general’s race has Jones up by 6 percentage points (47 percent to 41 percent) with 10 days before the start of early voting in Virginia.”
• “Democrats hope voters see Jones as the party’s best line of defense to protect Virginia from Trump’s overreach.”
   
• “The Jones campaign launched a website this month calling out ‘MAGA Miyares’ as ‘Too Weak’ to stand firm against Trump.”
  

• “…the fact that Miyares has not closed the gap significantly suggests Democrats are in a better position to best him in the final stretch of the campaign.”

• “‘Virginia is a Democratic-leaning state,’ Jones’ media consultant Mark Bergman told The Recast. ‘For any Republican to win in Virginia, you need the wind at your back, and [Republicans have] a gale-force … hurricane in their face.’” 

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