What was once the most contested city in the Confederacy is again divided — this time on the merits of the candidates in the upcoming Virginia elections.
While there are no longer recurring bloody battles along ‘The Valley Road’ (now US-11) through Winchester, residents in the city in Virginia’s northwest corner — the region’s apple capital in the fall and also home of GOP gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears — offered competing views on the issues commanding the race.
Fox News Digital spoke with multiple Winchester, Virginia, area residents along the Loudoun Street arcade, a pedestrian-only portion of the historic city’s central avenue that comprises several shops, restaurants and a Civil War museum.
Of the murder-texts scandal enveloping Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones, Kevin Callinan from neighboring Stephens City, Virginia, said that ‘no normal person’ would say what Jones said about then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah.
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‘It just was really horrendous,’ he said of Jones’ conversation referencing murdering Gilbert and seeing harm come to what the Democrat called the Republican’s ‘little fascist’ children.
‘He should have just had the moral of dignity to just say, ‘I’m gonna resign. I said that, it was horrible to even say it. Even if it was a joke, it is horrible, and I should have just walked away,’