Virginia White Supremacist Senate Candidate Attacks Al Sharpton Rather Than Answer Questions About Praising Secession

Trump-loving, racist, white supremacist Virginia senate candidate Corey Stewart made an appearance on MSNBC's Politics Nation this Sunday and was asked by host Al Sharpton about his remarks during a speech last year where he praised southern secession in a Facebook video posted during his failed 2017 gubernatorial run.

Here's what Stewart said in the video, which Sharpton played for him this Sunday:

"When you say you're from Virginia, when you travel outside of this state and somebody asks where you're from, you say with pride, 'I am from Virginia. I'm very, very proud of it,'" Stewart said. "You're very, very proud of it. And why is it? It's because of our history, folks. It's because of our history. This is the state of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and James Monroe. It's a state of the founders. It's the state of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

"But it's also the state of Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson, and J.E.B. Stuart. Because, at the base of it, Virginians, we think for ourselves," he continued. "And if the established order is wrong, we rebel. We did that in the Revolution, we did it in the Civil War, and we're doing it today. We're doing it today because they're trying to rob us of everything that we hold dear: our history, our heritage, our culture."

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