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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier appeared on Newsmax’s National Report this week to weigh in on the high-profile Virginia attorney general contest, praising incumbent Jason Miyares’s record on public safety and suggesting the race is a clear referendum on crime and order. Uthmeier framed the contest as more than politics — a fight over whether law-abiding citizens or the chaos of radical rhetoric set the agenda.
Uthmeier, a DeSantis appointee who was sworn in as Florida’s attorney general earlier this year, has built his reputation fighting woke mandates and defending parental rights, so it’s no surprise he’s spotlighting a fellow conservative who emphasizes law-and-order. His remarks carry weight because he is not a lightweight pundit but the man running the state’s top law enforcement office in Florida.
The backdrop to Uthmeier’s comments is a scandal surrounding Democrat candidate Jay Jones, whose leaked texts about political opponents have raised legitimate questions about temperament and judgment for anyone who would claim to be the commonwealth’s top prosecutor. Jason Miyares has rightly seized on those texts to contrast steadiness and respect for the law with rhetoric that sounds dangerously closeted in anger rather than committed to justice.
Miyares has doubled down on a practical, results-driven approach to crime reduction that conservatives respect: focused enforcement against repeat violent offenders, community-based interventions, and partnerships with local law enforcement. The record he points to — falling murder rates in areas where his strategies were applied and targeted efforts against fentanyl dealers — is the sort of commonsense policy that delivers safety rather than sermons.
This isn’t a parochial squabble; it’s emblematic of a larger national choice about whether public safety and accountability are restored to their rightful place in policymaking. Conservatives don’t apologize for saying the job of an attorney general is to stand squarely with victims and enforce the law, not to indulge partisan theater or violent fantasies wrapped in cheap outrage.
Uthmeier’s intervention sends a clear signal that Republican attorneys general are coordinating to defend the rule of law and push back against the left’s efforts to turn legal offices into political cudgels. That posture — one of steady enforcement, parental rights, and resisting the overreach of activist institutions — is exactly what conservative voters expect from public servants entrusted with power.
In the end, the Virginia attorney general race will be judged on competence, judgment, and results. Conservatives who believe in law and order should feel vindicated when fellow officials like Miyares and Uthmeier insist on prosecutorial seriousness over performative politics; Americans deserve prosecutors who protect communities, not candidates who traffic in dangerous rhetoric.
