The Daily Signal - Virginia AG Jason Miyares Talks About Jay Jones and Preventing a Democrat Takeover of the State

Episode Date: October 24, 2025

"A new survey, released Wednesday by The Washington Post/Schar School, found Miyares and Jones in lockstep with roughly 46 percent support each among likely voters. The numbers mark a 5 percentage point drop for the Democratic candidate in comparison with a similar poll from last month," writes The Hill. Virginia Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares takes a few minutes from the campaign trail to talk with The Daily Signal about the power an unethical attorney general could wield against political foes, what the upcoming appearance by President Barack Obama could do for the race, and more. Keep Up With The Daily Signal   Sign up for our email newsletters:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.dailysignal.com/email⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠     Subscribe to our other shows: Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:  https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9753340027 The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2284199939 The Signal Sitdown: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376   Problematic Women:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL7765680741     Follow The Daily Signal:    X:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://x.com/intent/user?screen_name=DailySignal Instagram:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Facebook:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Truth Social:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  YouTube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1    Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk, business. I've got Virginia's top lawyer on the phone with us. He is the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and one of the most important positions out there. I remember getting schooled because I grew up in the top cop era, and I remember the first time somebody took me through what an attorney general really is all about, protecting Virginians and the residents of their state,

Jason Miaris, on the campaign trail, taking some time out to talk to us. closers get coffee jason how are you doing sir oh thank you i'm getting coffee right now drinking out of my mug as i travel so uh great to be with you i wanted to ask uh certainly a lot has been made about your debate with your opponent who seems to think he's running against donald trump last uh for attorney general i'm you know but um in the light of the text messages that came out that show his violent tendencies or his whims and his wistful thinking of violence against political opponents. I know, because I've read reports done by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the awesome

investigative power of the Attorney General's Office. I think he said it a bunch of times there, I can't wait to get Jason Miaris and Donald Trump in a courtroom. This guy is disqualified, not because he wishes violence, but he wishes to, you know, invoke. suffering on his opponents, and he's going to use the awesome power of the AG's office to do it from what I'm listening to. Jason, am I wrong? Well, it's clear he's running for the wrong office. He wants to turn this into a political office, partisan office, as a tool or a sword to go after his political opponents. And I've always viewed the Attorney General's office as a shield to protect Virginians. And you are exactly right. The investigative powers of this office, are incredibly broad. You are the top prosecutor in the state.

For example, you have the authority to make sure that every nonprofit, every charity in the state is complying with Virginia rules. You obviously have broad criminal investigative authority as well. And so I think, listen, he's asking Virginians to hire him to be the top prosecutor in the state, and he's never been a prosecutor a day in his life. I think that's the first thing. He has no experience in this job.

The largest division of the Attorney General's office is the criminal division. The second is, Joe, I thought there was an exchange that he wrote in that text message that should give everyone pause. It was when he was challenged about wishing violence on Todd Gilbert and his children at the time they were two and five years old. By the way, he's met his wife. He's met his children before Jennifer Gilbert would bring those kids to the General Assembly. But in the exchange where he said, Jay, stop, you are hoping that Jennifer Gilbert's children die in her arms. And his response was, yes, as I've told you before, it is only through pain that people move on policy. Now, think about that.

This is an idea that you are wishing violence on innocent children because you think through their pain, you can, quote, unquote, make a better society. Well, Joe, you know my family background. Yeah. Flea and Cuba, the Miaris family fleeing Cuba. But my mother has told me this, that the Marxist in Havana, the socialists in Havana, they never thought of themselves as the bad guys when they were arresting and beating people, when they were nationalizing businesses and taking away people's homes and farms. They all thought they were doing inflicting pain on individuals for, quote, unquote, the greater good.

And what that means is you have a worldview that individual dignity doesn't matter nearly as much as your political agenda. that is a very, very dangerous worldview for anybody to have, whether they're even a local school board member, much less an executive position with the broad investigative powers of the Attorney General's office. And so I think it really, I feel like what he said there was disqualifying. Again, this was a man that was angry, that Todd Gilbert had said kind words about a Democrat

that had recently passed away, a long-serving Democrat delegate, state delegate, his attitude is, well, I want to piss on the grave of my political opponents. Well, does anybody want somebody, when you're supposed to be the Attorney General of all Virginians, Republican Democrats and Independence, to want to turn this office and unleash it against, you know, his political opponents and fantasizes and hopes to see young children died? And so how in the world could Jay Jones ever prosecute an MS-13 gang member knowing you wanted to see two bullets in the head of somebody he disagreed with over just politics? Now, how could he grieve a mother that has actually lost her child to violence, knowing, as we all now know, that he's actually hoped to see young children die? It is such a disqualifying moment for somebody to seek this office to seek a job promotion. I mean, to end of the day, if Jay Jones was to apply to be a line prosecutor in not just my office, any attorney general office in the country in all 50 states, they would not pass, he would not pass the background check.

Wow. He would not pass the background check. And that is what's at stake here. It is absolutely incredulous to me that he still is asking Virginians to hire him and give him a job promotion because he's not a prosecutor. He's a politician. And that's his worldview. And he wants to turn this to a partisan office. want to turn this into basically prosecuting bad guys and getting them out of our communities and

away from hurting Virginians. Well, it sounds more like a persecutor than a prosecutor there. He wants to make you change your mind by his secret police showing up at your door, which is exactly how these communist Marxist countries get involved in there. And Jason, so many times, and you're a younger fellow than I am, but I've heard so many times, oh, I don't want to make this about character. I want to make this about my accomplishments, or I want to make this about my record. And it's always the people with spurious character that say that, it seems. Because at the end of the day, I've learned over time that character is what we really need

to be watching for because we can't game plan out every decision that an attorney general is going to have to make in the execution of his office. So knowing the character of the person is more important because we don't know what's going to come in the next four years. So knowing who that person is and trusting that, I think, has to be the defining factor. Am I wrong? No, no question. I'll give you just one example, the hard judgment calls you have to make in this sitting in this office.

First of all, I got a security clearance when I got into this seat because of the number of defense installations that we have in Virginia and getting updated threat analysis from Homeland Security. I don't know if Jay would be able to get a security clearance to be able to have a clear picture of what we're facing. But I also have to authorize every investigation to any elected officials, state or local in the state of Virginia by the Virginia State Police. They have a division called the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, BCI. All of that by, and so when a complaint comes in, it has to be, it comes across my desk. I have never, you have never seen a single leak ever about an investigation about a public official. Because the state police has to investigate to see if there's credible. obviously you get a lot of complaints

that are from individuals that aren't credible that can't you get complaints from people there's clearly dealing with some mental health issues if you remember what happened in the Merrick Garland Justice Department where leaks would occur if there was even a rumor or thought that maybe they wouldn't investigate somebody

if it was a Republican and it would be on the front page of the news and people's lives would be destroyed and I've always viewed that as just a monstrous way of administering justice set aside the partisanship. Nobody should ever, ever.

If there's something credible, they'll investigate, and then they'll take it to a prosecutor, he'll then seek a grand jury indictment. But no one should ever, ever have something litigated on some allegation just through the media. I think that is the opposite of how it should be done. And so you could see, I've had people that have been pretty big critics of me

that have authorized, you know, they've had complaints, but it's never leaked once. We don't leak in our office. That's just a policy. That's an instantaneous, fireable offense if you work for me in the Attorney General's office. So that's just one aspect of our character matters. You have to be able to be the people's protector and administer justice without partisanship, without favor.

I have never asked a single crime victim ever that I bet with, whether they voted for me, whether the Republican or Democrat. That's just not my mindset, Joe. A mindset to be the Attorney General for everyone and to protect everyone. That's my mindset. And I think that's, you know, one of the important things. I mean, leaking makes the process, the punishment. And we've seen this, you know, faster than you can say, Letitia James, you know, the headline becomes the indictment. The exoneration goes on page 35.

And so it's character assassination. And again, I think that's the kind of thing you hear in your opponent's mindset regarding his political opponent's election, culmination day, I guess, early voting continues until November 1st. Jason, I want to ask you about November 1st, Barack Obama is coming. Everyone who says, you know, the governor's race is all but done. I don't think you bring Barack Obama, if that's really what your polls are saying to you, do you agree, especially coming from that area, Hampton Roads, I think there's more going on here. It's not just that Spanberger's, you know, perilously close to losing this race. especially based on her debate performance,

but that Hampton Roads area with guys like Tim Anderson trying to win seats, I think that the location of this rally is also about flipping the house. What are you hearing from the folks you know down there in the Hampton Roads area? Well, I mean, I think you're right. I think Winston has definitely closed the gap. I think it's a marginary race in her race. I do think Abigail had a disastrous performance in her debate. the fact that she simply can't say no, biological males shouldn't be in women's locker rooms and in sports teams.

This is a pretty easy question to answer, but we know that she is, you go look at her voting record. You know, she voted 100% with Joe Biden while she was in Congress, but she's trying to portray herself as a moderate. And ask herself this question, if Jay Jones was to apply for a job in Abigail's cabinet with these text messages, would she, hire him to be her chief of staff or secretary of public safety? Well, she wouldn't hire him to be in her cabinet. Then why you're asking Virginians to hire him to be the top prosecutor? That's a good question. And if that would be one thing, a legacy media outlet should ask her, would you hire Jay Jones

to support serving your cabinet? Well, she just... Well, then why are you pushing to be the top prosecutor? She just told Katie Couric the other day that she's so upset that she has to answer these questions. You know what? Jim Gilmore, I'm sure, had agenda things. that he wanted to get to on September 11, 2001, and he had to put them aside.

Or 2012, when we had the Dorachio and Virginia lost power for a month, you know, Governor McDonald had to put his agenda aside and actually deal with what's going on. It's called being an executive. Well, it is. And she's asking Virginians to promote somebody, a politician who's never been a prosecutor, the top prosecutor who's fantasized about and at hope for the murder of small children. Okay, got it. Thank you, Abigail. Well, the next four years, if the Republican ticket wins, we watched for four years as school divisions and other organizations stuck their hands in their pockets and ignored you and Governor Yonkin for four years, I think trying to run out the clock, you know, litigating whatever.

If there's victory in November, does that send the message to get off the pot and start actually doing things for Virginians again? Well, are you talking about victory for me? Well, you and Governor Sears and Lieutenant Governor Reese. Listen, I mean, I think, I think, you know, it is clear to me that you have certain school boards that have made national headlines for all the wrong reasons because they haven't adopted Governor Youngkin's model policies. And the reality is that the districts that have adopted Governor Youngton's model policies haven't made national headlines where you have to have. the New York Post running a story where a 14-year-old boy with facial hair was walking into the girls' locker room staring at young girls at a Fairfax High School undressing. And when they complained, those students said, well, you just got to change quicker.

I mean, this is classic, Joe, of what I say, you could be so open-minded, your brain falls right out because this would have not been up for discussion. If I was to tell you, Joe, 15 years ago, if I was to tell you, 2010, the Democratic Party in just 15 years will openly advocate for biological boys to be in preteen and teens changing locker rooms. You would not believe me. And on sports teams and on overnight trips, you would not, you would say there's Jason, there's no way. But now here we are. They have so veered so far to the lap that they have pushed an extreme ideological agenda on our school districts.

And you've seen it. And they make these headlines. And they act all surprised when all of us have been warning them, this is inevitable. It is inevitable when you do this and you have those situations like in Fairfax. Jason Miaris, where can people visit you online because we've got a run here? Go to standforjason.com, standforjason.com to stand with me to stop Jay Jones. And you can follow me in all the social media, Twitter, X, all Facebook. You can follow me there.

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