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2025 Virginia Attorney General election
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The 2025 Virginia Attorney General election will be held on November 4, 2025, to elect the attorney general of Virginia. The incumbent Republican attorney general, Jason Miyares, is running for re-election. The in-person early voting period runs from September 19 to November 1, 2025.[1]
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Republican primary
Candidates
Nominee
- Jason Miyares, incumbent attorney general (2022–present)[2]
Endorsements
Jason Miyares
Statewide officials
- Glenn Youngkin, governor of Virginia (2022–present)[3]
Democratic primary
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Teo Armus of The Washington Post described the primary as a proxy battle between Dominion Energy and Clean Virginia, an environmental group meant to counter Dominion's influence in Virginia elections. Shannon Taylor received over $800,000 from Dominion, its largest ever contribution in a single race.[4] Jay Jones received $579,000 from Clean Virginia.[5]
Candidates
Nominee
- Jay Jones, former Washington, D.C. assistant attorney general (2022–2023), former state delegate from the 89th district (2018–2021), and candidate for attorney general in 2021[6]
Eliminated in primary
- Shannon Taylor, Henrico County Commonwealth's Attorney (2012–present)[7]
Declined
- Steve Descano, Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney (2020–present) (endorsed Jones)[8]
Endorsements
Jay Jones
- U.S. Senators
- Cory Booker, U.S. Senator from New Jersey (2013–present)[9]
- U.S. Representatives
- Bobby Scott, Virginia's 3rd congressional district (1993–present)[10]
- Suhas Subramanyam, Virginia's 10th congressional district (2025–present)[11]
- Eugene Vindman, Virginia's 7th congressional district (2025–present)[11]
- Statewide officials
- Terry McAuliffe, former governor of Virginia (2014–2018)[12]
- Ralph Northam, former governor of Virginia (2018–2022)[13]
- State legislators
- Lashrecse Aird, state senator from the 13th district (2024–present)[13]
- Alex Askew, state delegate from the 95th district (2020–2022, 2024–present)[13]
- Jeff Bourne, former state delegate from the 71st district (2017–2024)[13]
- Patrick Hope, state delegate from the 1st district (2010–present)[14]
- Adele McClure, state delegate from the 2nd district (2024–present)[14]
- Russet Perry, state senator from the 31st district (2024–present)[14]
- Atoosa Reaser, state delegate from the 27th district (2024–present)[14]
- Irene Shin, state delegate from the 8th district (2022–present)[14]
- Kannan Srinivasan, state senator from the 32nd district (2025–present)[14]
- Schuyler VanValkenburg, state senator from the 16th district (2024–present)[13]
- Local officials
- Andrea Bailey, Prince William County Supervisor[14]
- Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, Commonwealth’s Attorney of Arlington and Falls Church[14]
- Steve Descano, Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney[8]
- Karl Frisch, Fairfax County School Board chair[14]
- Koran Saines, Loudoun County supervisor[14]
- Organizations
Shannon Taylor
- Statewide officials
- Mary Sue Terry, former Attorney General of Virginia (1986–1993)[17]
- Mark Herring, former Attorney General of Virginia (2014–2022)[18]
- State legislators
- Dick Saslaw, majority leader of the Virginia State Senate (2020–2024) from the 35th district (1980–2024)[19]
- Eileen Filler-Corn, former Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates (2020–2022) from the 41st district (2010–2024)[19]
- Labor unions
- International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers and SMART Local 100[20]
- Organizations
Polling
Results
Jones
- 50–60%
- 60–70%
- 70–80%
Taylor
- 50–60%
- 60–70%
Tie
- 50%
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General election
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In October, a month before the election, a 2022 text conversation that Jay Jones had with Republican delegate Carrie Coyner following the death of former delegate Democrat Joe Johnson Jr. was made public by National Review. In the texts, Jones made disparaging remarks toward Republican members of the House, stating, "If those guys die before me I will go to their funerals to piss on their graves." Jones then followed up the remark by targeting then-Speaker of the House of Delegates Republican Todd Gilbert, giving a scenario in which Gilbert would be shot twice in the head. Jones said, "Three people, two bullets, Gilbert, Hitler, and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head. Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know, and he receives both bullets every time." Jones would then take his remarks further, targeting Gilbert's children, wishing death upon them, and stating that Gilbert and his wife were "evil" and "breeding little fascists."[24][25][26][27]
Jones has received bipartisan condemnation for his texts. His Democratic running mates Abigail Spanberger, for governor, and Ghazala Hashmi, for lieutenant governor, both issued statements condemning Jones. Spanberger stated that she had spoken with Jones regarding her "disgust". Meanwhile, Hashmi stated, "I condemn it at every turn, Jay must take accountability for the pain that his words have caused", along with U.S. Senator Mark Warner writing that Jones's comments are "appalling, unacceptable, and inconsistent with the person [he's] known."[28] Virginia Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell called the texts "a serious lapse in judgment that cannot be defended," while current Virginia House Speaker Don Scott condemned the remarks but stated that "we can't get distracted, because they want us to get distracted by the text message here or something else. Stay focused."[27] Republicans, including Governor Glenn Youngkin, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, and Vice President JD Vance, have called for Jones to withdraw from the race.[29][30]
In Jones's initial statement following the publication, he accused his opponent of "dropping smears through Trump-controlled media organizations to assault my character and rescue his desperate campaign" and stated that his opponent "will continue to be accountable to Donald Trump, not the people of Virginia."[31] Prior to the article, it had come out that in the same year, Jones was charged with reckless driving after driving 116 miles per hour on Interstate 64 in New Kent County. Despite Virginia's mandatory one-year jail sentence for reckless driving, Jones was sentenced to 1,000 hours of community service, half of which he served working for his own PAC, Meet Our Moment, along with a $1,500 fine.[32] Jones would later issue a statement taking responsibility for the text messages and apologized to Gilbert and his family.[33]
Debates
There was one streamed debate, on October 16, hosted by the University of Richmond.[34]
Predictions
Post-primary endorsements
Jason Miyares (R)
- Federal officials
- Denver Riggleman, former Republican U.S. Representative from VA-5 (2019–2021) (Independent)[38]
- Donald Trump, 45th and 47th president of the United States (2017–2021, 2025–present)[39]
- Statewide officials
- Bob McDonnell, former governor of Virginia (2010–2014)[40]
- Larry Hogan, former governor of Maryland (2015—2023)[41][42]
- State legislators
- Mark Earley Jr., state delegate from the 73rd district (2024–present)[43]
- Local officials
- Pat Herrity, Fairfax County supervisor from the Springfield district (2008–present)[44]
- 78 sheriffs[45]
- Organizations
Jay Jones (D)
- U.S. Senators
- State legislators
- Joe Morrissey, state senator from the 16th district (2020–2024)[50]
- Local officials
- Shannon Taylor, Henrico County Commonwealth's Attorney (2012–present) (eliminated in primary)[51]
- Organizations
Polling
Aggregate polls
Hypothetical polling
Jason Miyares vs. Generic Democrat
Results
By county and independent city
By congressional district
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Notes
- Key:
A – all adults
RV – registered voters
LV – likely voters
V – unclear - Calculated by taking the difference of 100% and all other candidates combined.
- "None of these" with 1%
- "Neither" with 4%; "Would not vote" with 2%
- "Other" with 1%
- "Wouldn't vote" with 2%, "Refused" with 1%, and "Someone else" with 0%
Partisan clients
- Poll sponsored by Taylor's campaign
- Poll commissioned by the Democratic Attorneys General Association, which supports Jones
- Poll commissioned by the Republican Attorneys General Association, which supports Miyares
- Poll sponsored by Jones's campaign
- Poll sponsored by the Virginia Project
- Poll sponsored by Founders Insight
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References
External links
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