The incompetent white supremacist in the White House was speedy in offering his congratulations to Virginia Republican Corey Stewart, now the party's official candidate for Senate running against Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine.
For the record, Trump is largely alone in his enthusiasm for Confederate Costume Playtime Dude. Non-white nationalist Republicans, of which there are still a few, were quite certain they did not want Stewart to win. Having a figure as controversial (i.e. racist) as Stewart is likely to be significant blow to Republicans down the ballot. How bad is he?
He held a rally opposing the removal of a Charlottesville statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee—to supporters waving Confederate flags.
He got hammered in epic national fashion for claiming that "nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don't matter." The exchange included Stewart defending a supporter who asked a non-monument supporter, "Are you a Jew?"
He proudly accepted the endorsement of a prominent neo-Confederate.
Just to show Stewart does have interests aside from making sure monuments to America's biggest historical traitors stay in our public places, during his victory rally he assured supporters who were chanting "lock her up” (the "her" being past Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton) that "that just might happen, by the way. And [Tim Kaine] too." So he's not just a fan of slave holders, authoritarian traitors, and Donald Trump—he's keen on their ideas as well.
So that's the jackass Donald Trump took time out of his day to support: Confederate Monument Dude. But it looks like the rest of the party is abandoning any hopes of pushing Stewart to victory and picking up Kaine's Senate seat: To a query from CNN's Jake Tapper, an NRSC source responded: "Big map. Virginia isn't on it."