“There is no Republican Party,” said former House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, at a recent policy conference in Michigan. “There’s a Trump Party. The Republican Party is kind of taking a nap somewhere.”
On Tuesday, Virginians will find out how accurate Boehner’s statement is here. The GOP Senate primary has boiled down to a contest between Nick Freitas, a hardcore conservative and former Army Ranger, and Corey Stewart, a braggadocious blowhard so intemperate the Trump campaign fired him. (A third candidate, E.W. Jackson, also is running.)
Freitas served two tours in Iraq with one of the most elite fighting units the world has ever seen. On issue after issue, he takes a resoundingly conservative position. In early March, he infuriated Democrats when he gave a speech (since viewed more than 11 million times) objecting to their linking gun rights with Nazism and racial segregation. If Democrats really want an “open and honest debate” about guns, he said, then they should “start with a certain degree of mutual respect.” A. Barton Hinkle discusses the race.
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