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Virginia Republican Corey Stewart has made defending monuments to the Confederacy one of his signature issues in his outsider bid for the governors office in a flagrant bid to court racist voters while pretending he wasnt.

Its a very small turnout election were talking maybe 4 or 5percent of the entire voter base, he told the Washington Post earlier this month. So youve got a certain percentage of the electorate who are going to vote on abortion. Youve got a certain percentage of the electorate who are going to vote on illegal immigration. Andthen theres going to be apercentage who will vote on thehistorical monuments issue. Pretty soon, you add them all up and its a significant portion of people.

But now Stewart has a problem. On Saturday, a group ofracist alt-right activists led by publicity hound Richard Spencer held two protests in the Virginia city of Charlottesville demanding that the mayor cancel plans to remove a statue dedicated to Robert E. Lee, the famous Confederate general.

The nighttime event, which was reminiscent of an old-fashioned Ku Klux Klan cross burning rally according to some of its critics, put Stewart in a bind.

The prolific Twitter user has been unusually silent recently about the issue. Hes kept that silence through Mondayalthough hes promised to make a statement tonight at 7 pm on his Facebook page.

According to WUSA, a Washington-based TV station, Stewart is weighing dropping out of the race entirely.

Political operatives said Stewart must decide whether to disavow Spencer and the rhetoric that emerged at the protest, or embrace it and leave the governors race, the WUSAs Peggy Fox reported earlier today.

Of course, the reality is that racist activists have long been in favor of keeping Confederate monuments up and this has been known to anyone who wanted to pay attention to recent controversies in New Orleans or elsewhere.

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