VA GOP Chairman Steps down of Republican senate candidate nomination
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Head of Virginia GOP steps down amid Corey Stewart’s Senate camp..
RICHMOND — John C. Whitbeck resigned Saturday as chairman of the Republican Party of
Virginia, weeks after Corey Stewart won the party’s nomination to take on Sen. Tim Kaine (D)
in the November election.
“Other political opportunities have arisen for me that I am thinking about pursuing,” he told
members of the party’s governing board at a meeting. He did not elaborate.
Whitbeck has presided over a particularly dismal stretch for Virginia Republicans, who lost
all three statewide offices last year and saw their overwhelming majority in the House of
Delegates dwindle to the narrowest possible margin.
[With Corey Stewart atop the ticket, Virginia Republicans in turmoil]
Virginia is also the only Southern state Donald Trump lost in 2016 presidential election, and
the last statewide election Republicans won there was in 2009, when Robert F. McDonnell
was elected governor.
Despite electoral losses, fellow Republicans credit Whitbeck with pulling the party out of
debt and acting as a stabilizing force after a succession of chairmen came and went
during the 2000s.
There is speculation Whitbeck does not want to spend the next four months answering for
Stewart, who is known for provocative campaign antics and likes to say he was “Trump
before Trump was Trump.”
Stewart, who narrowly lost the GOP nomination for governor in June after attacking illegal
immigration and calling for protection of what he called “Confederate heritage,” has
promised a “ruthless” and “vicious” campaign against Kaine.
Republicans are a dying breed in Virginia
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I briefly lived in north Virginia and it seemed like a place that would absolutely never vote red. Does anyone here know what the other parts of the state are like?
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2016 Voter map
It seems to closer you are to government/military work the more liberal you are, in this state. (Richmond, VA Beach, NOVA, Roanoke?, Charlottesville?)
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