Republican Corey Stewart is eyeing Senate run against Tim Kaine in 2018
By Laura Vozzella June 14 at 5:53 PM
RICHMOND — Corey Stewart said he might challenge Sen. Tim Kaine in 2018 on Wednesday, one day after he nearly won the GOP primary for Virginia governor in a surprisingly strong showing.
“Kaine is vulnerable,” said Stewart, who on Tuesday finished a little over 1 percent behind former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie.
The Prince William County chairman ran a provocative, Donald Trump-style campaign that focused on the preservation of Virginia’s Confederate monuments. He also took a hard line on criminal illegal immigrants, promising to “lock them up.”
Most public polls had shown Stewart trailing Gillespie by double digits. And when his bid attracted support from white nationalists, many political observers predicted that his political career in one of Virginia’s most racially diverse corners was over. But Stewart pulled out a closer-than-expected finish.
Stewart said he would take “a few weeks, a couple months maybe” to decide whether to challenge to Kaine, a former Virginia governor who was Hillary Clinton’s running mate in the 2016 presidential race and is up for re-election next year.
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