'They endorse killing us': Obama, Spanberger slammed for stumping with murder-texting Jay Jones

The appearance tied Obama and Spanberger to Jones - a move critics said undercuts the former president's past calls for civility and his 2024 comments urging Black voters to support Vice President Kamala Harris.

"They endorse killing us," Florida political journalist Eric Daugherty said of Obama's appearance with Jones.

"In a disgusting sight, Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones - who called for the murder of Republicans and their children - is being cheered at a Barack Hussein Obama rally with gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger," Daugherty said.

"I'm from a country where I saw political violence, where I see political gangs shooting people and shooting each other when I was 10 years old," said Earle-Sears, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica.

"I cannot believe that Jay Jones was there, but Abigail Spanberger is for him, Barack Obama is for him," Youngkin said.

"Virginians clearly saw [during the rally] that violence and murder are just fine with them. Those may be their values, but they aren't Virginia values."

Conservative commentator Western Lensman called out Obama's remarks during the rally as blatantly hypocritical.

Obama told the crowd that Spanberger knows that people should be "able to disagree without calling each other nasty names or demonizing each other."

The attorney general candidate present at that same rally characterized House Speaker Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah, as worse than dictators Pol Pot and Adolf Hitler - and expressed a wish to urinate on Gilbert's grave.

"Obama doesn't even believe his faux high-minded bulls---, but this is his autopilot slop," Benson added.

Critics also locked onto Obama's apparent change of heart about Black candidates running for office.

"Obama rallied with psycho Jay Jones today," quipped former AFP Vice President Phil Kerpen.

Jones was also defended once again by Virginia House Speaker Don Scott Jr., D-Portsmouth, who was interviewed by former NBC anchor Chuck Todd.

Scott told Todd that if Jones wins, he believes Virginia will "allow him to do his job and move on," calling him a "good young man who made a huge error."

Scott previously told reporters after Spanberger's debate with Earle-Sears that people concerned with Jones should instead look to Trump's comments about former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.

Trump had claimed Cheney's neoconservative and interventionist political bent would be less pronounced if she was in the same "warzone" as U.S. servicemembers and had enemy rifles pointed her way.