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Corey Stewart: Gillespie's defeat is humiliating rejection of Bush-wing R's who don't embrace Trump
There's always someone who just doesn't get it.
Corey Stewart: Gillespie's defeat is "humiliating rejection" of Bush-wing Republicans who don't embrace Trump
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Corey Stewart: Gillespie's defeat is 'humiliating rejection' of Republican moderates
BY GRAHAM MOOMAW Richmond Times-Dispatch 2 hrs ago
Anti-establishment firebrand Corey Stewart wasted little time Tuesday night before offering his synopsis of why Republicans lost big in Virginia's elections: They picked the wrong guy. ... After watching Republican Ed Gillespie go down in defeat in the governor's race, Stewart, the chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors and the former chairman of President Donald Trump's Virginia campaign, blasted Gillespie in a statement, saying he "refused to stand with the grassroots of the party and refused to fight ultra left wing Democrats."
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Stewart - now seeking the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., in 2018 - had long said he would support the Republican ticket even though he wouldn't be leading it. But he didn't whole-heartedly endorse Gillespie, and Gillespie never campaigned with Stewart in the general election.
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In Stewart's home county of Prince William, Northam won by a whopping margin of more than 20 percentage points.
David Ramadan, a former Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates who has become an outspoken Trump critic, responded to Stewart on Twitter Tuesday night by pointing out that several longtime Republican delegates from the Prince William area lost their seats in Tuesday's anti-Trump backlash. ... "Enough with the shilling and further destruction of Conservatism," Ramadan said.
gmoomaw@timesdispatch.com
(804) 649-6839
Twitter: @gmoomaw
BY GRAHAM MOOMAW Richmond Times-Dispatch 2 hrs ago
Anti-establishment firebrand Corey Stewart wasted little time Tuesday night before offering his synopsis of why Republicans lost big in Virginia's elections: They picked the wrong guy. ... After watching Republican Ed Gillespie go down in defeat in the governor's race, Stewart, the chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors and the former chairman of President Donald Trump's Virginia campaign, blasted Gillespie in a statement, saying he "refused to stand with the grassroots of the party and refused to fight ultra left wing Democrats."
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Stewart - now seeking the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., in 2018 - had long said he would support the Republican ticket even though he wouldn't be leading it. But he didn't whole-heartedly endorse Gillespie, and Gillespie never campaigned with Stewart in the general election.
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In Stewart's home county of Prince William, Northam won by a whopping margin of more than 20 percentage points.
David Ramadan, a former Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates who has become an outspoken Trump critic, responded to Stewart on Twitter Tuesday night by pointing out that several longtime Republican delegates from the Prince William area lost their seats in Tuesday's anti-Trump backlash. ... "Enough with the shilling and further destruction of Conservatism," Ramadan said.
gmoomaw@timesdispatch.com
(804) 649-6839
Twitter: @gmoomaw
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