# Jason Miyares

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*The Cuban-born Republican attorney general of Virginia whom John Kiriakou expected to be a right-wing disaster and found instead to be excellent — a judgement he says is hard for him to make about a conservative Republican, and which he repeated on the night Miyares was unceremoniously thrown out of office.*

- **Office:** Attorney General of Virginia, 2022–2026
- **Born:** In Cuba; Cuban-American
- **Kiriakou's expectation in 2021:** "He's a right-wing extremist. It's going to be terrible"
- **His actual verdict:** "A terrific attorney general"; "an excellent attorney general"
- **The difficulty he flags:** "It's hard for me to say that about a conservative Republican"
- **Fate:** Defeated by Jay Jones in November 2025

**Jason Miyares** was the attorney general of Virginia from 2022 until his defeat in November 2025, and one of the very few Republican officeholders [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) praises without irony.

## The expectation

Kiriakou is explicit that he got the man wrong at the outset. *"When Jason Miyares, the Republican — he's Cuban-American, born in Cuba — when he first was elected attorney general four years ago, I thought: oh my God, there we go. He's a right-wing extremist. It's going to be terrible."*[1]

## The correction

The verdict he actually reached is short. *"No, he's been a perfectly fine attorney general."* The host supplied the metric implied — never in the news, enforcing the laws — and Kiriakou let it stand.[1]

On election night he put it more strongly, and flagged the effort it cost him. *"Miyares has been a terrific attorney general. And it's hard for me to say that about a conservative Republican, but he has been an excellent attorney general."*[2]

## The defeat

Miyares lost to a Democratic challenger whose private text messages about violence against Republicans had leaked less than two weeks before polling day. Kiriakou's description of the outcome contains no satisfaction at all: *"and he was just unceremoniously thrown out last night."*[2]

He had, two weeks earlier, called the race *"a dead heat"*, and had noted that the received wisdom was of large-scale ticket-splitting in Miyares's favour. Neither the polling nor the wisdom held.[3][4]

## Why he is in the corpus

Miyares is useful evidence against reading Kiriakou's political commentary as reflexively partisan. The pattern he describes here — an anticipated extremist who turned out to do the job soberly, and whose removal Kiriakou regrets — is one he applies in both directions, alongside his placement of the incoming Democratic governor as a 1970s moderate Republican.

The test he applies to both is the same, and it is not ideological: whether the officeholder is *"never in the news, enforcing the laws."*[1]

## See also

- [The Jay Jones texts](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-jay-jones-texts)
- [Abigail Spanberger](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/abigail-spanberger)
- [Winsome Earle-Sears and the machine gun](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/winsome-earle-sears-and-the-machine-gun)

## Sources

1. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-10-22), at 36:30. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNhvUJehZGo&t=2190s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-10-22-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/
2. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-11-05), at 04:16. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mebPnYD1ko&t=256s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-05-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-1mebPn/
3. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-10-22), at 35:57. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNhvUJehZGo&t=2157s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-10-22-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/
4. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-11-05), at 04:47. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mebPnYD1ko&t=287s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-05-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-1mebPn/

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