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Good news! Dems turn to Hollywood for help with ‘messaging and turnout’

Good news! Dems turn to Hollywood for help with ‘messaging and turnout’
If you were even remotely engaged in the events surrounding the last election, you probably received at least one left-wing diatribe from a Hollywood multi-millionaire. For most of 2016, you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting an actor, singer, producer or director who was berating you about Hillary Clinton.

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National media ignoring DOJ arrests of 2,300 suspected pedophiles

A massive nationwide round-up of suspected online child sex offenders by the Department of Justice has gone virtually unreported on the major national media. The Department of Justice is certainly proud of “Operation Broken Heart” and issued a press release two days ago that included the newsthat:


The Department of Justice today announced the arrest of more than 2,300 suspected online child sex offenders during a three-month, nationwide, operation conducted by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces. The task forces identified 195 offenders who either produced child pornography or committed child sexual abuse, and 383 children who suffered recent, ongoing, or historical sexual abuse or production of child pornography.



The 61 ICAC task forces, located in all 50 states and comprised of more than 4,500 federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies, led the coordinated operation known as “Broken Heart” during the months of March, April, and May 2018.  During the course of the operation, the task forces investigated more than 25,200 complaints of technology-facilitated crimes against children and delivered more than 3,700 presentations on Internet safety to over 390,000 youth and adults.   


“No child should ever have to endure sexual abuse,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said. “And yet, in recent years, certain forms of modern technology have facilitated the spread of child pornography and created greater incentives for its production. We at the Department of Justice are determined to strike back against these repugnant crimes. It is shocking and very sad that in this one operation, we have arrested more than 2,300 alleged child predators and investigated some 25,200 sexual abuse complaints. Any would-be criminal should be warned: this Department will remain relentless in hunting down those who victimize our children.”



The little publicity did this receive seems to be confined to local media, as seen in this Google News search for “operation broken heart.”


Kent man faces child porn charge,






are typical entries.


Mike Cernovich ponders what this implies:


 




Hmmmm.


A massive nationwide round-up of suspected online child sex offenders by the Department of Justice has gone virtually unreported on the major national media. The Department of Justice is certainly proud of “Operation Broken Heart” and issued a press release two days ago that included the newsthat:


The Department of Justice today announced the arrest of more than 2,300 suspected online child sex offenders during a three-month, nationwide, operation conducted by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces. The task forces identified 195 offenders who either produced child pornography or committed child sexual abuse, and 383 children who suffered recent, ongoing, or historical sexual abuse or production of child pornography.


The 61 ICAC task forces, located in all 50 states and comprised of more than 4,500 federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies, led the coordinated operation known as “Broken Heart” during the months of March, April, and May 2018.  During the course of the operation, the task forces investigated more than 25,200 complaints of technology-facilitated crimes against children and delivered more than 3,700 presentations on Internet safety to over 390,000 youth and adults.   


“No child should ever have to endure sexual abuse,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said. “And yet, in recent years, certain forms of modern technology have facilitated the spread of child pornography and created greater incentives for its production. We at the Department of Justice are determined to strike back against these repugnant crimes. It is shocking and very sad that in this one operation, we have arrested more than 2,300 alleged child predators and investigated some 25,200 sexual abuse complaints. Any would-be criminal should be warned: this Department will remain relentless in hunting down those who victimize our children.”



The little publicity did this receive seems to be confined to local media, as seen in this Google News search for “operation broken heart.”


Kent man faces child porn charge,






are typical entries.


Mike Cernovich ponders what this implies:


 




Hmmmm.




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Here we go. Geert Wilders launches new “Draw Mohammed” competition

It’s been a couple of years now since Dutch politician and Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders came up considerably short in his bid to unseat the Prime Minister of the Netherlands. I still follow him on Twitter, however, which is how I noticed last night that he was hatching a new plan.

A new “Draw Mohammed” contest? What could possibly go wrong? He seems to be serious, however. The UK Express picked up the story and sketched out the few available details.

The contest, launched by the Dutch Party for Freedom, will be held in the party’s offices in the Netherlands’ parliament.

The competition has received the go-ahead from the country’s Counter-terrorism Agency NCTV, as announced on Twitter by the party leader Geert Wilders.

On Tuesday he wrote: “Dutch Counter-terrorism Agency NCTV gives green light to Muhammad cartoon contest in secured PVV quarters of Dutch Parliament later this year.

“So that’s what we’re going to do and organize! With cartoonist/ex-Muslim Bosch Fawstin!

Wilders earns full points for consistency, but at this point I find myself wondering what greater purpose this serves today. Haven’t we already had this debate and settled the larger questions? Journalists from multiple countries have proven that freedom of expression is paramount and they can defy Islamic blasphemy laws by creating and publishing images of the Muslim prophet. In return, a subset of radical Islamic terrorists has proven that they were willing to blow up your newspaper offices or try to shoot up your art gallery if you do so.

With the above point having been proven, at this stage of the war on Islamic terror, it just seems like deliberate provocation without much of a point to make. If Geert draws out some potential Muslim killers who try to take out Dutch members of Parliament or any artists who enter the contest, perhaps someone will die. Perhaps they won’t. But while I don’t want to appear completely jaded about a very serious subject, we’ve seen this movie before. It doesn’t end well and nobody “wins.” We add a few more digits to the body count, it’s still blasphemy to depict Mohammed and the west still embraces free speech.

But hey… who am I to judge? If the Dutch are holding an officially sanctioned contest I guess we’re off to the races once again. If you’re a budding artist looking to strike a blow for free speech, enjoy living on the edge, hunger for the thrill of being hunted by terrorists or simply find life too boring (or long), you can send your entries to muhammadcartoons@pvv.nl starting today. And when you’re finished, you can shop on Google for some stylish new body armor. Just be sure to check which local laws apply where you live first.

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Pompeo Says North Korea Sanctions to Remain Until Complete Denuclearization

By Christine Kim and David Brunnstrom

SEOUL (Reuters) – Tough sanctions will remain on North Korea until its complete denuclearization, the U.S. secretary of state said on Thursday, apparently contradicting the North’s view that the process agreed at this week’s summit would be phased and reciprocal.

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un issued a joint statement after their Singapore meeting that reaffirmed the North’s commitment to "work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula", while Trump "committed to provide security guarantees".

Trump later told a news conference he would end joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises.

"President Trump has been incredibly clear about the sequencing of denuclearization and relief from the sanctions," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters after meeting South Korea’s president and Japan’s foreign minister in Seoul.

"We are going to get complete denuclearization; only then will there be relief from the sanctions," he said.

North Korean state media reported on Wednesday Kim and Trump had recognized the principle of "step-by-step and simultaneous action" to achieve peace and denuclearization on the Korean peninsula.

The summit statement provided no details on when North Korea would give up its nuclear weapons program or how the dismantling might be verified.

Skeptics of how much the meeting achieved pointed to the North Korean leadership’s long-held view that nuclear weapons are a bulwark against what it fears are U.S. plans to overthrow it and unite the Korean peninsula.

However, South Korean President Moon Jae-In said the world, through the summit, had escaped the threat of war, echoing Trump’s upbeat assessment of his meeting with Kim.

"What’s most important was that the people of the world, including those in the United States, Japan and Koreans, have all been able to escape the threat of war, nuclear weapons and missiles," Moon told Pompeo.

Pompeo insisted North Korea was committed to giving up its nuclear arsenal but said it would "be a process, not an easy one".

Kim understood getting rid of his nuclear arsenal needed to be done quickly and there would only be relief from stringent U.N. sanctions on North Korea after its "complete denuclearization", Pompeo said.

Moon later said South Korea would be flexible when it comes to military pressure on North Korea if it is sincere about denuclearization.

Also on Thursday, North and South Korea held their first military talks in more than a decade. The talks followed on from an inter-Korean summit in April at which Moon and Kim agreed to defuse tension and cease "hostile acts".

Speaking later in the day in Beijing, Pompeo thanked China for its efforts to ensure the Trump-Kim summit happened, but also struck a note of caution.

"I wanted to thank you for the kind words you had for President Trump and work he did to put us in this place where we now believe we have a path forward which can truly, for the first time in so many years, create peace on the peninsula," Pompeo told the Chinese government’s top diplomat, State Councillor Wang Yi.

"And there is still a lot of work to do. There are still risks that we won’t achieve that."

Wang said the meeting brought the Korean peninsula nuclear issue back to the correct track of resolving it peacefully.

"It accords with the all parties’ joint interests, including those of the United States and North Korea," he said.

‘EVERYBODY MUCH SAFER’

The United States has long insisted on complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization by North Korea.

But the summit statement reference to North Korea committing to work toward the complete denuclearization of the peninsula has used been by North Korea in the past to include a U.S. nuclear umbrella in the region, and echoes promises it has failed to keep.

Trump returned to the United States on Wednesday and took to Twitter to hail the meeting, the first between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader, as a major win for American security.

"Everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office," Trump tweeted. "There is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea."

Democratic critics in the United States said the agreement was short on detail and the Republican president had made too many concessions to Kim, whose country is under U.N. sanctions for its nuclear and weapons programs and is widely condemned for human rights abuses.

Pompeo said Trump’s comments about the reduced threat from North Korea were made "with eyes wide open".

"It could be the case that our effort won’t … work but we are determined to set the conditions so that we can right this failure of decades and reset the conditions for North Korea’s participation in the community of nations," Pompeo said after a trilateral meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono.

MAINTAIN READINESS

Japan has reacted to Trump’s plan to cancel military exercises with South Korea with concern, saying the drills are vital for East Asian security.

Two North Korean missiles flew over Japan last year as North Korea made rapid advances in developing a missile capable of striking the U.S. mainland with a nuclear warhead.

Tokyo is working on arranging a meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Kim, with one possibility being an Abe visit to Pyongyang around August, the Yomiuri newspaper reported.

A Japanese government source familiar with the matter told Reuters officials aimed to discuss a summit with North Korean officials at a regional security conference in Mongolia on Thursday and Friday.

Kang said South Korea and the United States shared the same goals and approach to achieving denuclearization.

"The issue of South Korea-U.S. joint exercises is one that should be discussed," Kang said. "But the issues of the alliance should be dealt with under the premise we maintain a joint ironclad defense posture."

The U.S. intelligence assessment of the nuclear and other military threat posed by North Korea to U.S. and allied forces remained unchanged despite Trump’s and Moon’s assertions about the North Korean nuclear threat being over, a senior U.S. official responsible for studying the North Korean military said.

U.S. officials said it was unclear what types of training involving U.S. and South Korean troops might cross into Trump’s now forbidden zone of "war games". But big, joint U.S.-South Korean exercises appeared off-limits under the new guidance.

"Make no mistake, we are going to maintain the readiness of our forces in South Korea," said one U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official acknowledged, however, it was still not certain how that was going to happen.

The United States maintains about 28,500 soldiers in South Korea, which remains in a technical state of war with the North after the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce rather than a peace treaty.

(Reporting by David Brunnstrom and Christine Kim in SEOUL; Additional by Josh Smith and Hyonhee Shin in SEOUL, Yoshifumi Takemoto and Chang-Ran Kim in TOKYO, Michael Martina in BEIJING and Phil Stewart in WASHINGTON; Writing by Lincoln Feast; Editing by Paul Tait, Robert Birsel)

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A big reason why Soros was rejected so badly in the polls last week

The power of a Trump endorsement is the topic du jour in the election news, but the other big story we learned from this past week’s primaries was that George Soros was soundly rejected in his bid to rig the District Attorney’s races in California. His creepy little pawns in his project to get leftist soft-on-crime DAs elected across the state lost in nearly all instances. Voters like me voted for ANYTHING that wasn’t backed by Soros, given the loathesomeness of his agenda. But this wasn’t just confined to solidest conservative voters in the state, the rejection was pan-political.


And now we have a whiff of the why. Here’s the headline:





and here’s the fill:


SACRAMENTO (CBSLA/AP) — California voters’ decision to reduce penalties for drug and property crimes in 2014 contributed to a jump in car burglaries, shoplifting and other theft, researchers reported.


Larcenies increased about 9 percent by 2016, or about 135 more thefts per 100,000 residents than if tougher penalties had remained, according to results of a study by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California released Tuesday.


Who was it who brought us this execrable law that has caused crime to shoot through the roof in California, under the sweet-sounding buzzword of ‘sentencing reform’? None other than George Soros himself, who together with his foundation buddies, shelled out $14 million to get the hellish measure passed, letting criminals off on the streets with zero accountability for their petty crimes that lower the quality of life for law-abiding people. Because we who are the victims are somehow are not supposed to be upset about petty crimes, we are supposed to look away and dismiss them as some problem of petit bourgeois people who are just too attached to their stuff. This 2014 Los Angeles Times report says that Soros and his buddies were able to legally hide their involvement in financing this measure that has since wrought such hell on voters, acting as the shadowy forces pulling the puppetstrings of their little minion “sentencing reform” activists and all their disgusting sob stories. They have a stunning chart of how the organizational octopus worked in this must-see graph here.


That’s how we got Proposition 47, which has brought us stepped-up auto-boosting and other quality of life crimes, oh so predictably, euphemized and sold as “sentencing reform.”


The voters fell for it, and now they are paying the price as the local lowlife commit crimes against them with abandon, and police hands are tied. That’s the Soros agenda up close, stick it to the middle class guy, who wants to be able to walk down the street without getting robbed and at least be able to put a crook in jail for it if it happens. That’s a bridge too far for the Open Society Foundations crowd, which wants life for such voters to be hellish and short, the same way it’s done in Caracas. Soros and his rich elites, in their gated communities with armed bodyguards, endure no such hellishness such as car break-ins, and reinforce their class distinctions from the hoi polloi through this freedom from fear. They probably consider it a means of controlling us, actually, same way Hugo Chavez used unchecked crime as his way of controlling Venezuela’s middle class and poor. Death squads, outsourced to crooks, as it happened. It’s beyond appalling and based on Tuesday’s primaries, apparently voters have caught on to it.


No wonder hardcore Republican John Cox won the second spot in California’s gubernatorial nomination slate – and no wonder the grand old man of California Democratic machine politics, the cunning, un-illusioned and un-stupid Willie Brown warned Democrats that Cox represents trouble for them. No wonder there was no blue wave out here in the bluest of states. In fact, there was an emerging red tide.


This quality of life issue, with car break-ins, and other disgusting crimes skyrocketing is prime material for a Republican resurgence in California, and should be used unsparingly as the campaign heats up. Anti-Soros ads work, and now there is a doozy of one waiting to be made and broadcast. Voters have already rejected Soros’s little pawns. Now the tinder is dry for rejecting the whole slimy Soros agenda of letting crooks out of jail for free.


The power of a Trump endorsement is the topic du jour in the election news, but the other big story we learned from this past week’s primaries was that George Soros was soundly rejected in his bid to rig the District Attorney’s races in California. His creepy little pawns in his project to get leftist soft-on-crime DAs elected across the state lost in nearly all instances. Voters like me voted for ANYTHING that wasn’t backed by Soros, given the loathesomeness of his agenda. But this wasn’t just confined to solidest conservative voters in the state, the rejection was pan-political.


And now we have a whiff of the why. Here’s the headline:




and here’s the fill:


SACRAMENTO (CBSLA/AP) — California voters’ decision to reduce penalties for drug and property crimes in 2014 contributed to a jump in car burglaries, shoplifting and other theft, researchers reported.


Larcenies increased about 9 percent by 2016, or about 135 more thefts per 100,000 residents than if tougher penalties had remained, according to results of a study by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California released Tuesday.


Who was it who brought us this execrable law that has caused crime to shoot through the roof in California, under the sweet-sounding buzzword of ‘sentencing reform’? None other than George Soros himself, who together with his foundation buddies, shelled out $14 million to get the hellish measure passed, letting criminals off on the streets with zero accountability for their petty crimes that lower the quality of life for law-abiding people. Because we who are the victims are somehow are not supposed to be upset about petty crimes, we are supposed to look away and dismiss them as some problem of petit bourgeois people who are just too attached to their stuff. This 2014 Los Angeles Times report says that Soros and his buddies were able to legally hide their involvement in financing this measure that has since wrought such hell on voters, acting as the shadowy forces pulling the puppetstrings of their little minion “sentencing reform” activists and all their disgusting sob stories. They have a stunning chart of how the organizational octopus worked in this must-see graph here.


That’s how we got Proposition 47, which has brought us stepped-up auto-boosting and other quality of life crimes, oh so predictably, euphemized and sold as “sentencing reform.”


The voters fell for it, and now they are paying the price as the local lowlife commit crimes against them with abandon, and police hands are tied. That’s the Soros agenda up close, stick it to the middle class guy, who wants to be able to walk down the street without getting robbed and at least be able to put a crook in jail for it if it happens. That’s a bridge too far for the Open Society Foundations crowd, which wants life for such voters to be hellish and short, the same way it’s done in Caracas. Soros and his rich elites, in their gated communities with armed bodyguards, endure no such hellishness such as car break-ins, and reinforce their class distinctions from the hoi polloi through this freedom from fear. They probably consider it a means of controlling us, actually, same way Hugo Chavez used unchecked crime as his way of controlling Venezuela’s middle class and poor. Death squads, outsourced to crooks, as it happened. It’s beyond appalling and based on Tuesday’s primaries, apparently voters have caught on to it.


No wonder hardcore Republican John Cox won the second spot in California’s gubernatorial nomination slate – and no wonder the grand old man of California Democratic machine politics, the cunning, un-illusioned and un-stupid Willie Brown warned Democrats that Cox represents trouble for them. No wonder there was no blue wave out here in the bluest of states. In fact, there was an emerging red tide.


This quality of life issue, with car break-ins, and other disgusting crimes skyrocketing is prime material for a Republican resurgence in California, and should be used unsparingly as the campaign heats up. Anti-Soros ads work, and now there is a doozy of one waiting to be made and broadcast. Voters have already rejected Soros’s little pawns. Now the tinder is dry for rejecting the whole slimy Soros agenda of letting crooks out of jail for free.




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Smug NY Reporter Forced to Edit Out Racist Statement Printed About Kimberly Guilfoyle

A columnist with the New York Daily News was forced to edit her piece after she used a racial slur against Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, The Daily Caller reports.

In Linda Stasi’s Tuesday column, which demanded that “The Five” co-host should be fired from the network for an alleged relationship with Donald Trump Jr., our writer friend decided it was a perfectly salutary to make a wise-crack about Guilfoyle — who is half-Puerto Rican — picking fruit.

“Thing is, Guilfoyle is an otherwise brilliant woman. When it comes to picking men, though, she’d be better off picking grapes,” Stasi’s column originally read.

That earned this tweet from Donald Trump Jr.

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Stasi denied that it was a racial slur but decided to edit it out nonetheless.

“Absolutely no idea that Kimberly Guilfoyle is half Puerto Rican…and my column was in no way meant as a slur,” she tweeted.

“Nonetheless I will change that reference online. I’m just surprised anyone would have assumed such a stereotype b/c someone is half-Latina. So sorry for misunderstanding.”

Do you think Linda Stasi was being consciously racist?

The line now reads, “When it comes to picking men, though, she’d probably have better odds picking lotto numbers.”

“Donald Trump Jr. tweeted that one line in the column was somehow a  reference to Ms. Guilfoyle being Puerto Rican (I since checked it out and she is indeed Puerto Rican on her  father’s side),” Stasi wrote in an email to The Daily Caller.

“Not that I had any idea of her ethnicity nor if I did would I associate grape picking with her or it with Puerto Rico. My Italian family- who picks their own grapes in Calabria- sure. The ravaged island of Puerto Rico – no. I think Mr. Trump mistakenly assumed I wrote it to  stereotype her somehow. Truthfully I was kind of flummoxed by the association. But why leave a phrase in if it could be in any way misconstrued like that?”

There are a few other details to this whole story beyond the apology. The first, it may not surprise you to know, is that the Daily News is a liberal paper; it’s basically The New York Times for Gotham residents who are slightly lower on the literacy totem pole.

If someone from the Trump administration had used that phrase with any Latino/Latina, one of Stasi’s cohort would be furiously typing away at the brittle keyboard of their MacBook, demanding their removal and once again proclaiming the inveterate white supremacy that has engulfed the White House.

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Then there’s the choice of phraseology. I don’t necessarily want to cast a shadow on Stasi’s story and I find it odd that someone would consciously leave something that could be interpreted as a racial slur in their column, but what are the other alternatives here? Telling someone to “pick grapes” as a generic insult sounds vaguely like the superannuated “go suck an egg” deprecation. Except it hardly makes any sense unless you — whether consciously or subconsciously — had some sort of motive behind it.

Go pick grapes? Okay, I get to be out in the dry sunshine and pick bunches of fruit. While the manual labor might be intensive, what, pray tell, is statistically difficult about this? I’m having a hard time coming up with an alternative to racism here.

One could also entertain the possibility that the column isn’t particularly well-written, which I’d give you. The Daily Caller notes one mistake, which is that it refers to Guilfoyle as a “reporter.” (She’s a pundit; that’s hardly a distinction without a difference if you’re calling for someone’s firing because their personal life might make them less objective when they don’t feign objectivity in the first place.)

I found another one, which is Stasi’s contention that Donald Trump Jr. is “a guy so dumb he retweeted the insane conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring behind a pizza place.” For the record, while he’s retweeted and supported individuals who believed the Pizzagate theory had merit, I haven’t seen actual tweets invoking the theory.

There’s no evidence that he knew these individuals believed in or promoted the ridiculous Pizzagate theory, any more than there’s evidence Stasi knew Guilfoyle was a Latina. Our columnist, apparently, isn’t willing to give Trump Jr. the same benefit of the doubt she more or less expects from us.

Oh, and while we’re at it, way to throw in “(t)he ravaged island” part about Puerto Rico in your apology, too, Ms. Stasi. Because as Harvey Weinstein showed, no apology is complete without a deflection to a previously approved liberal cause.

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NRSC refuses to endorse or support Corey Stewart’s senate bid

National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman Cory Gardner announced that the official campaign arm of Republicans in the senate would not endorse Virginia’s controversial senate nominee Corey Stewart, nor would they give the candidate any funds.


The Hill:



Gardner’s decision is a break with President Trump, who tweeted his congratulations to Stewart on Wednesday morning.


“Congratulations to Corey Stewart for his great victory for Senator from Virginia. Now he runs against a total stiff, Tim Kaine, who is weak on crime and borders, and wants to raise your taxes through the roof. Don’t underestimate Corey, a major chance of winning!” Trump wrote on Twitter.


It’s not the first time Gardner has decided to not endorse a candidate who has received Trump’s backing. The committee, under Gardner’s leadership, refused to back controversial Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore last year.


Even when Trump endorsed Moore a month after the first allegations of sexual misconduct by women who were underage at the time surfaced against the candidate, Gardner refused to follow Trump’s endorsement. That put the NRSC at odds with both the White House and the Republican National Committee, which also backed Moore. 


Following his win Tuesday, Stewart is now set to face off against Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) in November.


Stewart, who was endorsed by white supremacist Jason Kessler (support he disavowed) and Paul Nehlen, who gained fame as a challenger to Speaker Paul Ryan and is known for posting racist, and anti-Semitic tweets, made a name for himself defending Confederate monuments from being torn down. He fancies himself a Trump mini-me – insulting his opponents and making wild, unsubstantiated claims. 


Senate Republicans are at a loss about how to deal with his candidacy.


Politico:


“At the senatorial committee we’re focusing on Missouri, Indiana, North Dakota, Montana, West Virginia and Florida. There are great races around the country. [Virginia] is not the map,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Cory Gardner (R-Colo.). “We have a big map this year, and what I’ve laid out in races that I’ve talked about, Virginia’s not on it.”


“Sometimes in the primary process, the thing we try and get done is get the most electable candidate on the ballot in the fall. And that doesn’t always happen,” conceded Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the No. 3 GOP leader.


And Thune, like other Republicans expressed ignorance of Stewart despite his affinity for earning press with stunts like protesting outside the RNC in 2016, which got him ousted from Trump’s official campaign apparatus. Stewart also drew criticism for refusing to condemn white nationalists after last year’s violent rally in Charlottesville.


Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), said he has “no idea who he is. Not at all.”


See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil.


Pretending they don’t know what Stewart is all about won’t save them. Stewart is, by himself, is a target rich environment. Kaine will have so many lines of attack he won’t know what to do.


If he’s smart, he will ignore him. Stewart doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of beating Kaine and the NRSC knows it, which is why they won’t spend a dime in Virginia. But Stewart has tarred the GOP as the party of white supremacists and the damage has already been done.


National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman Cory Gardner announced that the official campaign arm of Republicans in the senate would not endorse Virginia’s controversial senate nominee Corey Stewart, nor would they give the candidate any funds.


The Hill:


Gardner’s decision is a break with President Trump, who tweeted his congratulations to Stewart on Wednesday morning.


“Congratulations to Corey Stewart for his great victory for Senator from Virginia. Now he runs against a total stiff, Tim Kaine, who is weak on crime and borders, and wants to raise your taxes through the roof. Don’t underestimate Corey, a major chance of winning!” Trump wrote on Twitter.


It’s not the first time Gardner has decided to not endorse a candidate who has received Trump’s backing. The committee, under Gardner’s leadership, refused to back controversial Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore last year.


Even when Trump endorsed Moore a month after the first allegations of sexual misconduct by women who were underage at the time surfaced against the candidate, Gardner refused to follow Trump’s endorsement. That put the NRSC at odds with both the White House and the Republican National Committee, which also backed Moore. 


Following his win Tuesday, Stewart is now set to face off against Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) in November.


Stewart, who was endorsed by white supremacist Jason Kessler (support he disavowed) and Paul Nehlen, who gained fame as a challenger to Speaker Paul Ryan and is known for posting racist, and anti-Semitic tweets, made a name for himself defending Confederate monuments from being torn down. He fancies himself a Trump mini-me – insulting his opponents and making wild, unsubstantiated claims. 


Senate Republicans are at a loss about how to deal with his candidacy.


Politico:


“At the senatorial committee we’re focusing on Missouri, Indiana, North Dakota, Montana, West Virginia and Florida. There are great races around the country. [Virginia] is not the map,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Cory Gardner (R-Colo.). “We have a big map this year, and what I’ve laid out in races that I’ve talked about, Virginia’s not on it.”


“Sometimes in the primary process, the thing we try and get done is get the most electable candidate on the ballot in the fall. And that doesn’t always happen,” conceded Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the No. 3 GOP leader.


And Thune, like other Republicans expressed ignorance of Stewart despite his affinity for earning press with stunts like protesting outside the RNC in 2016, which got him ousted from Trump’s official campaign apparatus. Stewart also drew criticism for refusing to condemn white nationalists after last year’s violent rally in Charlottesville.


Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), said he has “no idea who he is. Not at all.”


See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil.


Pretending they don’t know what Stewart is all about won’t save them. Stewart is, by himself, is a target rich environment. Kaine will have so many lines of attack he won’t know what to do.


If he’s smart, he will ignore him. Stewart doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of beating Kaine and the NRSC knows it, which is why they won’t spend a dime in Virginia. But Stewart has tarred the GOP as the party of white supremacists and the damage has already been done.




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