Everytown For Gun Safety Endorses Ghazala Hashmi for Lt. Governor and Jay Jones for Attorney General of Virginia

In April, Everytown for Gun Safety Endorsed Former Moms Demand Action Volunteer Abigail Spanberger for Governor

WASHINGTON — Today, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund announced its endorsement of State Senator Ghazala Hashmi for Lt. Governor and Jay Jones for Attorney General of Virginia. In April, Everytown endorsed former Moms Demand Action volunteer Abigail Spanberger for Governor of Virginia, and in May, Everytown endorsed 14 Moms Demand Action volunteers running for office in Virginia.

“Ghazala Hashmi and Jay Jones are committed gun sense champions, and we’re proud to endorse them today,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety. “Preventing gun violence is a winning issue in Virginia, and Everytown will go all out to make sure voters know which candidates are making public safety a top priority.” 

“Virginia voters have made it clear that they want leaders who will tackle gun violence in the state. Ghazala Hashmi and Jay Jones are those leaders,” said Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of Moms Demand Action. “Our grassroots movement in Virginia knows how to win elections for gun sense champions, and we’re ready to do it again this November.”

Gun safety was a key issue in the 2023 Virginia elections: Gun sense candidates and Moms Demand Action volunteers won major victories up and down the ballot, flipping the House of Delegates and ensuring a gun sense majority in the Virginia legislature. Moms Demand Action volunteers currently make up nearly 20% of the Virginia House Democratic caucus. 2023 post-election polling showed that 80%+ of battleground area voters said a candidate’s position on guns was highly important, and those voters supported strengthening gun laws by more than two to one.

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