racist Trump-like VA Sen GOP candidate thrills rank & file but turns off donors & activists
With Corey Stewart atop the ticket, Virginia Republicans are in turmoil
Corey Stewart’s Republican nomination for U.S. Senate from Virginia has prompted an identity crisis within the state GOP, with some donors and activists saying they are so turned off that they are willing to vote for his Democratic opponent, Sen. Tim Kaine.
Stewart, chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, catapulted to the U.S. Senate nomination — and nearly won the gubernatorial primary last year — by celebrating guns and Confederate statues, lambasting illegal immigrants, and associating with white nationalist Jason Kessler and Paul Nehlen, a Wisconsin candidate barred from Twitter because of anti-Semitic and racist posts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/with-corey-stewart-atop-the-ticket-virginia-republicans-are-in-turmoil/2018/06/30/d30423da-73fe-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html?utm_term=.cbb33e020121
His perch on top of the ticket has roiled Republican circles inside the state. On Saturday, the head of the Virginia Republican Party resigned his post. John Whitbeck was vague about his reasons. “Other political opportunities have arisen for me that I am thinking about pursuing,” he told members of the party’s governing board at a meeting in Richmond.
Two other party leaders have resigned, but neither will say why. Kevin Gentry, the vice president for special projects and development at Koch Cos., left his position on the executive committee of the party’s governing board, and Davis C. Rennolds stepped down as chair of the Richmond GOP.
The Washington Post talked to more than 50 Virginia Republicans about the Senate race and found Stewart’s Trumpian antics thrill supporters but turn off traditional donors and outside groups.
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