Virginia’s US Senate Race: Trumplicanism vs. Corporate Globalism

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Virginia’s US Senate Race: Trumplicanism vs. Corporate Globalism
Townhall, Jum 16, 2018, Arthur Schaper

MAGA candidates were big winners on the June 12th primary, a continuing referendum from working, law-abiding Americans who want their elected representatives to put Americans First. Candidates who strayed from Trump’s agenda or spent more time attacking than working toward the president’s goals, they faced a reckoning. Mark Sanford of South Carolina was the most notable example.

Virginia’s U.S. Senate GOP primary was also contentious and the most revealing about the populist trend redefining the Republican Party. It’s bad enough to have a left-wing Sandinista type like Tim Kaine serving as Virginia’s junior senator. It’s worse that Virginia’s Republican Party pundit class seem more interest in accommodating rather than confronting the culture wars head on.

The Liberty Caucus/Koch Brothers/Establishment pick was state senator Nick Freitas. He gave a stirring speech on the floor of the Virginia State Senate which went viral. He has a solid but scant conservative voting record. Corey Stewart is the four-term Chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors. He represents a county which is majority-minority, the second-most populous compared to Fairfax County, which some have likened to Los Angeles County: congested, cosmopolitan, and heavily Democratic. Stewart not only pushed for his county to oppose illegal immigration, but to remove all illegal aliens from the region. He proudly implemented the 287(g) program to deputize county police to help with immigration enforcement.

Stewart has also been a committed conservative activist. He demanded the Virginia GOP leadership resign following their terrible losses in 2017. He protested the Fairfax County Sheriff’s decision to end its 287(g) programs. He recently railed against Virginia General Assembly Republicans for voting for the Obamacare Medicaid Expansion! Oh, and he also ran Virginia’s Trump campaign.


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Gotta mobilize every one of the thousands who waited patiently on lines for hours in the cold for candidate Trump's "midnight rally" on Nov 7 2016 ... and every one of them needs to take a neighbor to the polls.

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What Happened in Virginia?
Townhall, Jun 16, 2018, Marina Medvin

The Virginia Republican primary yielded Corey Stewart as the opponent to face Tim Kaine in the U.S. Senate election this November.   Stewart beat Nick Freitas by a difference of 1.7% of the votes. It was a close race.  304,435 Virginians voted. 136,544 for Stewart, 131,267 for Freitas. Stewart won by 5,277 total votes.

Northern Virginia, a DC suburb, appears to have handed the victory to Corey Stewart over his liberty conservative opponent, where Stewart brought in 10,604 more votes than Freitas.*  This may surprise some. After all, Corey Stewart appeared to espouse country values, while Freitas was the more mainstream candidate.

Stewart’s campaign focused on preservation of Confederate monuments, supporting Trump, and fighting illegal immigration. Freitas’ campaign focused on Second Amendment rights, enhancing school security, and lowering taxes. Freitas was endorsed by the NRA, Rand Paul, Americans for Prosperity, etc. Corey Stewart was endorsed by alt-right figures.

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Yet Northern Virginia, which handed Stewart the election, is not known for being alt-right or outwardly supportive of Confederate culture. Instead, it’s rather modern and diverse. The Republican party members of Virginia are also diverse. So why did Stewart win Northern Virginia?

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Secondly, Northern Virginia has an immigrant gang problem. And Corey Stewart’s position on illegal immigration and the need to deport gang members may have resonated strongly with the Republicans who are tired of seeing gang crimes on television and who are tired of paying for the trials and incarceration of the gangsters who President Trump aptly referred to as animals.

Fairfax County, which led Virginia with the most voters in Tuesday’s Republican primary, is the third wealthiest county in the United States, with a median household income of nearly $113,000. Fairfax County is also the home to nearly 1,500 MS-13 members, according to a 2015 police intelligence report. All counties in Northern Virginia are strongly affected by the recent spike in horrific MS-13 murders.


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