“Corey Stewart is the reason Gillespie is going to win,” Stephen K. Bannon, the former White House chief strategist and Trump’s campaign czar, said in an interview. [“You’re fired!” Trump campaign says to Stewart]“I think the reason we didn’t win Virginia is that we fired Corey — otherwise we would have been more competitive,” Bannon said. “How lucky could you be to get Corey Stewart running against you in a general election?” asked state Sen. Richard Saslaw (D-Fairfax). “People think he looks like ‘The Joker’ — crazy, psychotic, unhinged.”Ian Sams, a spokesman for the Kaine campaign, dismissed Stewart. “Who cares what Corey Stewart wants to nickname anyone?” Sams said.

Source: Washington Post November 05, 2017 16:22 UTC