PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is expected to be a drag on Republican congressional candidates in Virginia this year. He lost the state in 2016 and has angered much of its increasingly Democratic electorate ever since. But Corey Stewart, the Republican nominee for the US Senate, could be a bigger liability in the mid-terms than the president.
Mr Stewart, who for years has played to the hard-right fringe, was always considered a long shot to defeat Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate in 2016. The National Republican Senatorial Committee, the campaign arm of the Senate Republican caucus has said it will not support Mr Stewart, denying him cash and services. They will probably be better deployed in the 10 states carried by Mr Trump that have Democratic senators facing re-election this year.
The latest public poll, by Quinnipiac University, found that Mr Kaine leads Mr Stewart by nearly 20 percentage points. That suggests that the Democrat is pulling a hefty slice of Republican-leaning independents.
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