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The official party of racists adds another sterling candidate to the ranks of existing racists.
CNN - CNN Projection: Corey Stewart will win GOP nomination in Virginia's Senate race
Washington (CNN)Corey Stewart, the bombastic conservative who built his public image on championing Confederate symbols, will win the Republican Senate nomination in Virginia, CNN projects.
Stewart, a member of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, defeated state House member Nick Freitas and minister E.W. Jackson in Tuesday's primary.
He will face Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, the party's 2016 vice presidential nominee and a heavy favorite for re-election, in November's midterm election.
Mediaite - VA GOP Senate Front-Runner Praised White Nationalist and Named Apparent Neo-Nazi ‘Volunteer of the Week’
CNN - CNN Projection: Corey Stewart will win GOP nomination in Virginia's Senate race
Washington (CNN)Corey Stewart, the bombastic conservative who built his public image on championing Confederate symbols, will win the Republican Senate nomination in Virginia, CNN projects.
Stewart, a member of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, defeated state House member Nick Freitas and minister E.W. Jackson in Tuesday's primary.
He will face Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, the party's 2016 vice presidential nominee and a heavy favorite for re-election, in November's midterm election.
Mediaite - VA GOP Senate Front-Runner Praised White Nationalist and Named Apparent Neo-Nazi ‘Volunteer of the Week’
Corey Stewart, the GOP front-runner in Virginia’s Senate race, called white nationalist Paul Nehlen “one of my personal heroes” on-camera and praised an apparent neo-Nazi his campaign’s official “volunteer of the week.”
Stewart, an ardently pro-Trump candidate, is leading the Republican primary against two challengers on an anti-immigration platform. Should he win the nomination — to be held on June 12 — he will face off against Democratic incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine.
“One of my personal heroes, not from Virginia, but from the great state of Wisconsin, there is Paul Nehlen, who had a lot of courage and took on Speaker Ryan,” Stewart said of Nehlen in the clip taken on the night of President Donald Trump’s inauguration and posted on his YouTube page. “And I can’t tell you how much I was inspired by you.”
Although Stewart is known for his love of the Confederate statues — even comparing their removal to ISIS terror attacks — he doesn’t have nearly the same notoriety as Nehlen, who expressed white supremacist and anti-semitic views during his campaign to win House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Wisconsin congressional seat. Nehlen calls himself a “pro-White” Christian American candidate,” was banned from Twitter for posting a racist meme attacking Prince Harry’sbiracial wife Meghan Markle, and helped spread the alt-right “it’s OK to be white” 4chan meme.
Nehlen also makes the Jewish community one of his main targets in call-out campaigns. Last year, Nehlen created a list of 81 Twitter accounts — of which he claimed “74 are Jews” — and blamed them for helping to sink his campaign against Ryan because of their hatred for “#AmericaFirst positions.”
His other greatest hits include using Stars of David to “identify” apparently Jewish NBC staffers, retweeting endorsements of the Charlottesville, Virginia Unite The Right rally — a white supremacist event that ended with the murder of an anti-racist protester — and peddling the absurd #Pizzagate conspiracy.
While Nehlen was previously a favorite of Breitbart News for his anti-establishment rhetoric and opposition to Ryan, he became too toxic for even that website, and editor Joel Pollock wrote the candidatewent “off the deep end,” adding that they “don’t support him.” His toxicity led ex-White House official Steve Bannon to disavow him in a statement that claimed “Nehlen is dead to us.”
As for Stewart, his praise for the white nationalist Nehlen is not the extent of his ties to racists.
In one picture from a right-wing Charlottesville rally that occurred before the Unite The Right event, Stewart can be seen speaking on a megaphone to a crowd. Alt-right activist and white supremacist Jason Kessler, who was the organizer of the deadly rally in Charlottesville, can be spotted in the background holding a handmade poster of Pepe the Frog — a 4chan meme that was turned into a key symbol of Internet savvy white supremacists.
Kessler has also expressed his support for Stewart. The white supremacist tweeted a Confederate-themed endorsement during the Senate candidate’s failed gubernatorial campaign:
Predictably, Stewart’s ties to racists trickle down to his campaign. A recent email sent out by the Republican’s team praised apparent neo-Nazi Ian Phil MacDonald as their “volunteer of the week.”
“Congratulations to this week’s volunteers of the week, Ian Phil MacDonald and Dona Danzincer!” Read the email. “Ian and Dona have helped organize events, make calls, and put up large signs all over the Eastern Shore and Hampton Roads region.”
Stewart, an ardently pro-Trump candidate, is leading the Republican primary against two challengers on an anti-immigration platform. Should he win the nomination — to be held on June 12 — he will face off against Democratic incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine.
“One of my personal heroes, not from Virginia, but from the great state of Wisconsin, there is Paul Nehlen, who had a lot of courage and took on Speaker Ryan,” Stewart said of Nehlen in the clip taken on the night of President Donald Trump’s inauguration and posted on his YouTube page. “And I can’t tell you how much I was inspired by you.”
Although Stewart is known for his love of the Confederate statues — even comparing their removal to ISIS terror attacks — he doesn’t have nearly the same notoriety as Nehlen, who expressed white supremacist and anti-semitic views during his campaign to win House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Wisconsin congressional seat. Nehlen calls himself a “pro-White” Christian American candidate,” was banned from Twitter for posting a racist meme attacking Prince Harry’sbiracial wife Meghan Markle, and helped spread the alt-right “it’s OK to be white” 4chan meme.
Nehlen also makes the Jewish community one of his main targets in call-out campaigns. Last year, Nehlen created a list of 81 Twitter accounts — of which he claimed “74 are Jews” — and blamed them for helping to sink his campaign against Ryan because of their hatred for “#AmericaFirst positions.”
His other greatest hits include using Stars of David to “identify” apparently Jewish NBC staffers, retweeting endorsements of the Charlottesville, Virginia Unite The Right rally — a white supremacist event that ended with the murder of an anti-racist protester — and peddling the absurd #Pizzagate conspiracy.
While Nehlen was previously a favorite of Breitbart News for his anti-establishment rhetoric and opposition to Ryan, he became too toxic for even that website, and editor Joel Pollock wrote the candidatewent “off the deep end,” adding that they “don’t support him.” His toxicity led ex-White House official Steve Bannon to disavow him in a statement that claimed “Nehlen is dead to us.”
As for Stewart, his praise for the white nationalist Nehlen is not the extent of his ties to racists.
In one picture from a right-wing Charlottesville rally that occurred before the Unite The Right event, Stewart can be seen speaking on a megaphone to a crowd. Alt-right activist and white supremacist Jason Kessler, who was the organizer of the deadly rally in Charlottesville, can be spotted in the background holding a handmade poster of Pepe the Frog — a 4chan meme that was turned into a key symbol of Internet savvy white supremacists.
Kessler has also expressed his support for Stewart. The white supremacist tweeted a Confederate-themed endorsement during the Senate candidate’s failed gubernatorial campaign:
Predictably, Stewart’s ties to racists trickle down to his campaign. A recent email sent out by the Republican’s team praised apparent neo-Nazi Ian Phil MacDonald as their “volunteer of the week.”
“Congratulations to this week’s volunteers of the week, Ian Phil MacDonald and Dona Danzincer!” Read the email. “Ian and Dona have helped organize events, make calls, and put up large signs all over the Eastern Shore and Hampton Roads region.”
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