KAINE: Yes, it is. But look who won last year. It wasn`t the people who want to secede or go backwards who are winning elections.
Q: When you mayor of Richmond, you dealt with some of these questions about how to represent the Confederacy. The rallying point last year for the Unite the Right rally was the question of the removal of Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville.
KAINE: Charlottesville was not about statues. It was about hatred. It was about bigotry and division. This was not a save the statue rally. It was a Unite the Right rally. Statues don`t make you march around chanting, "Jews will not replace us." They don`t make you say "blood and soil" or other slogans from Nazi youth rallies. To say Charlottesville was about statues diminishes the gravity of it.
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The above quotations are from CBS "Face the Nation" interviews during 2018 (John Dickerson & Margaret Brennan interviewing candidates for 2018-20 races). Click here for other excerpts from CBS "Face the Nation" interviews during 2018 (John Dickerson & Margaret Brennan interviewing candidates for 2018-20 races). Click here for other excerpts by Corey Stewart. Click here for a profile of Corey Stewart.
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