Head of Va GOP resigns rather than run 'vicious campaign' for Trump-loving pro-Confederate candidate

[DonViejo]

Head of Virginia GOP resigns rather than run ‘vicious campaign’ for Trump-loving pro-Confederate US senate candidate

The head of the Virginia Republican Party resigned Saturday amidst the rise of a Trumpian candidate for U.S. Senate.

John Whitbeck had led his state’s party since 2015, but quit just two weeks after the party’s primary was won by Corey Stewart, a Trump-loving ultra-Conservative who has advocated protecting the state’s Confederate monuments.

Stewart has promised to run a “vicious campaign” against incumbent Tim Kaine. Stewart was the chair of President Donald Trump’s 2016 Virginia campaign but was fired for an extremist protest outside the Republican Party’s headquarters in Washington. He is closely associated with white nationalist Jason Kessler, who organized the deadly Charlottesville rally. Stewart was last elected, at the county level, in 2003.

Whitbeck apparently wanted to part of it, as he is resigning to pursue “other opportunities.”

Virginia Republicans have not won a statewide election since 2009.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/head-virginia-gop-resigns-rather-run-vicious-campaign-trump-loving-pro-confederate-us-senate-candidate/

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1. Awesome. Now we Virginians can focus on defeating Comstock in VA-10

Jennifer Wexton is the absolutely outstanding Democrat we have lined up to take down this Republican shill and help us retake the House.

[underpants]

2. And Abigail Spanberger beating Brat in the 7th

https://abigailspanberger.com/

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3. Oh hell yes!

Count me in on that, too!

[maxrandb]

4. And please don't forget Scott Taylor in Hampton Roads

Claims to be independent and strong, but it's hard for him to articulate that with Donnie Short Fingers testicles in his mouth

[dameatball]

5. Flaccavento (D) great candidate, but uphill battle against Griffith(R) for house

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6. That used to be my old stomping grounds. Griffith better watch his back

I lived for a while in Salem working in the Home Shopping Network warehouse there. I know it's uphill but I think it may be Anthony Flaccavento's year, if we rally behind him. SW VA will rise!

[dameatball]

7. Morgan Griffith won on an anti-Obama, pro-coal agenda. Obama is gone and he has not done much

of anything for coal, so you may be correct.

[Scurrilous]

8. K&R