Gosh, he's one of those "damnyankee transplants" whose "trying to tell us born and bred southrons what to do with OUR state" then. Ironically, he ALSO is a politician from "Northern Virginia" (Prince William County to be exact), and thus "not a REAL Virginian" ;-)
Stewart sounds like a pi$$ poor GOP candidate, either E.W. Jackson OR Nick Freitas (his opponents in the primary) would have run better general election campaigns. But I consider VA to be a solid RAT state now (most of my fellow FReepers are still in denial about that. Yes, there are still pockets of strongly conservative areas, but the state OVERALL is Safe Rat now) so I can't blame Kaine's inevitable re-election on this goofball.
Jackson didn’t sound too viable either, and was distantly mired in 3rd place anyway.
Freitas was the obvious choice but he was a “GOPE RINO” so most of FR didn’t want to hear that.
VA is not “solid” let alone “safe” rat, Trump lost it by 5 points that’s a far cry from Illinois but uh....it’s drying out red jello at least, into the territory of “rat-leaning” more than “swing”. Moving the wrong way.
Freitas would have been a longshot but him pulling the upset was at least POSSIBLE if the stars aligned.
Stewart seems to be looking at under 40%, though I think he’ll do better than Gilmore in 2008 (I still marvel at that disaster). If Stewart had been the nominee for Governor like people wanted, the democrats would have easily taken the State House instead of the GOP just hanging on.
Nominating him was foolish.