A Republican campaign flyer linking a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives with last year’s white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia has been slammed by J Street, which backs the candidate, as one of the most “disgusting political attacks we’ve ever seen.” The flyer, sent by the Republican Party of Virginia, claims that…
A Jewish candidate in a Virginia Beach district that could be key for the Democrats regaining the House in November said allegations of signature fraud by her Republican rival get more “troubling by the hour” after a dead man’s name was reportedly found on a ballot petition. Retired Navy commander Elaine Luria released the statement…
A top aide to Virginia GOP Senate nominee Corey Stewart has shared a number of conspiracy theories on social media, including the popular far-right idea that top Democrats were responsible for the death of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, a CNN review has found. The aide, Noel Fritsch, commented on a Jan. 25 Facebook…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Corey Stewart, a politician with associations with neo-Confederates, the “alt-right” and a well-known anti-Semite, is the Republican nominee for Senate in Virginia. The Republican establishment battled hard to thwart Stewart in the three-way primary race Tuesday to decide who faces Democratic incumbent Tim Kaine in November, backing State Delegate Nick Freitas. Stewart…
President Trump tweeted his congratulations on Wednesday to Republican Senate nominee Corey Stewart, who has several ties with the “alt-right.” “Congratulations to Corey Stewart for his great victory for Senator from Virginia,” Trump tweeted. “Now he runs against a total stiff, Tim Kaine, who is weak on crime and borders, and wants to raise your…
During his failed primary bid for Virginia governor in 2017, Republican Corey Stewart paid far-right commentator Paul Nehlen $759 as a “fundraising commission” in May, according to a June 2017 campaign finance filing with the Virginia Department of Elections. Stewart’s payment to Nehlen, made to his company the “Paul Nehlan (sic) Group” in the filings,…
Virginia GOP Senate primary favorite Corey Stewart has not renounced calling Wisconsin congressional candidate Paul Nehlen one of his “personal heroes” in a December 2017 video, despite Nehlen’s subsequent emergence as a racist anti-Semite, The Weekly Standard reported Tuesday. Nehlen has been banned from Twitter for racist and anti-Semitic tweets. His clashes with other white…
Less than a year after hosting a massive rally of white nationalists chanting “Jews will not replace us,” Charlottesville, Virginia is again at the center of a controversy over politics, free speech and anti-Semitism. But this time, the moral lines are much murkier. Documentary filmmaker Leslie Cockburn won the Democratic nomination earlier this month for…
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