“You can rest assured that I will be telling our congregation to vote for you,” Second Calvary Baptist Church head pastor Geoffrey Guns told Democratic Virginia attorney general nominee Jay Jones in a video shot on Wednesday.

Guns’s full-throated support for Jones, alongside his endorsement of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger, followed nearly $30,000 in “sponsorship” payments from the campaign account of state Sen. Louise Lucas, the top Democrat in Virginia’s upper chamber and the public face of the movement to gerrymander Virginia. Lucas’s power in Virginia would be greatly expanded if a Republican were not in the governor’s mansion, standing athwart her legislative agenda.