Former Virginia Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger is directing her attention to federal worker back pay in an apparent attempt to pull focus away from Jay Jones’s violent text messages. At the same time, Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears‘s campaign blasts the Democratic ticket on Jones’s violent rhetoric.

Republicans, including President Donald Trump, have called on Democrats to force their candidate for attorney general, Jones, to drop out of the election after text messages surfaced in which he said state House Speaker Todd Gilbert should get “two bullets to the head.” He has not dropped out, and Democrats have been mum about holding him accountable for his violent rhetoric, frustrating conservatives further.