Great. Yet another candidate who is too stupid to avoid liberal media pitfalls. Debating whether what he says is true or not completely, totally misses the point. Most voters, guided by the media, simply see another crank who seems way to interested in defending the Confederacy and discuss a long-irrelevant issue. This type of nonsense absolutely kills the GOP. Yet, every election cycle, they find a couple fools who have zero media savvy.
To people who grew up in the south, know history and respect our ancestors there was nothing controversial about what he said. I would have said it didn’t start out about slavery but the issue was injected into it mid way by Lincoln and the abolitionists and so in the end it was about crushing the South independence and also ending slavery.
Seems like there's good consulting money to be made, just to coach these hapless candidates how to answer basic "gotcha" questions.