Corey Stewart in 2018 VA Senate race
On Abortion:
No exceptions for rape, incest, or maternal life
Q: Abortion: Mostly ban or mostly legal?Tim Kaine (D): Legal. Supports women's right "to make their own reproductive choices." Opposes efforts to weaken Roe v. Wade & defund Planned Parenthood.
Corey Stewart (R): Ban. No exceptions for rape,
incest, or life of the mother. "It is the duty of legislators to protect those who cannot protect themselves."
Q: Allow employers to withhold contraceptive coverage if disagree?
Tim Kaine (D): No. Co-sponsor of bill to restore ACA contraceptive
coverage requirement.
Corey Stewart (R): No statement found.
Q: Let Planned Parenthood receive public funds for non-abortion healthcare?
Tim Kaine (D): Yes. A critical part of healthcare safety net. "We can't let anybody undercut
Planned Parenthood or the healthcare safety net."
Corey Stewart (R): No. Will work to defund. "I will NEVER apologize for being pro-life & I will ALWAYS stand up to Planned Parenthood."
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Virginia Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
On Budget & Economy:
Opposes federal spending as economic stimulus
Q: Support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?Tim Kaine (D):
Yes. Particularly transportation infrastructure.
Corey Stewart (R): No. Generally opposes.
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Virginia Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
On Civil Rights:
Stop brainwashing school children with the Homosexual Agenda
Q: Support gay marriage?Tim Kaine (D): Yes. In 2006 opposed VA amendment banning same sex marriage. "We're still fighting for full LGBT equality."
Corey Stewart (R): No. Strongly opposes; seeks to overturn
Supreme Court legalization.
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Virginia Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
On Drugs:
Decriminalize marijuana but don't legalize
Q: Legalize or decriminalize marijuana?Tim Kaine (D): Introduced bill to decriminalize at federal level & respect states' rights.
Corey Stewart (R): Decriminalize but don't legalize.
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Virginia Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
On Education:
Give parents as many choices as possible, including vouchers
Q: Provide vouchers to parents to send their children to private schools with public money?Tim Kaine (D): No.
Will fight efforts to divert public school funding to private schools.
Corey Stewart (R): Yes. Parents need to be in charge & should have as many choices as possible including vouchers.
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Virginia Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
On Energy & Oil:
Theory of man-made climate change is a hoax
Q: Consider climate change a critical issue? Limit or tax production of greenhouse gases?Tim Kaine (D): Yes. Climate change imperils our planet's future & threatens our economy. Need to regulate greenhouse gases. Paris Climate Accord withdrawal
will make it harder to deal with climate change at home.
Corey Stewart (R): No. "Theory of man-made Climate change is a hoax." Climate is changing, but "I don't believe that man is the primary cause & I don't believe that man can change that."
Believes climate accord regulations are "nonsensical."
Q: Should government support renewable energy?
Tim Kaine (D): Yes. Has supported renewable energy subsidies. Also supported a VA coal plant as governor. In 2013 supported off-shore drilling,
which now opposes.
Corey Stewart (R): Opposed Governor McAuliffe's renewable energy initiatives. Says backs all US energy development "including nuclear, solar, wind & fossil fuels."
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Virginia Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
On Environment:
Excess environmental regulation costs jobs
Q: Support cutbacks in Environmental Protection Administration?Tim Kaine (D): No. Signed letter voicing "extreme concern" over the cuts.
Corey Stewart (R): Likely yes. Excess environmental regulation "costs jobs, increases energy costs.has little or no positive impact."
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Virginia Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
On Free Trade:
Trump's Chinese tariffs are right on
Q: Support President Trump's imposition of tariffs on Chinese steel & other products?Tim Kaine (D): No. "They are killing jobs" & could "significantly put our infrastructure advancements at risk."
Corey Stewart (R): Yes. "What President Trump is doing [with the Chinese tariffs] is right on."
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Virginia Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
On Government Reform:
Opposes regulation of campaign donations
Q: Campaign Finance: Require political ads to disclose their largest funders? Stand on Citizens United decision, allowing unlimited corporate political donations?Tim Kaine (D): Yes. Introduced 2017 Disclose Act to disclose major campaign funders.
Reverse Citizens United, saying erodes democracy & undermines elections.
Corey Stewart (R): No public statement found on Disclose Act. Opposes regulation of campaign donations.
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Virginia Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
On Gun Control:
Gave away a semi-automatic rifle in campaign raffle
Q: Support more restrictive gun control legislation? Restrict semi-automatic weapons?Tim Kaine (D): Yes. Co-sponsored bill to ban military-style assault weapons, high-capacity ammunition magazines, & bump stocks.
Supports improved background checks.
Corey Stewart (R): No. Supports absolute right to gun ownership. Gave away a semi-automatic rifle in raffle to highlight his position.
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Virginia Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
On Health Care:
ObamaCare has failed; Medicaid expansion is major disaster
Q: Support or Repeal Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as ObamaCare? Support Medicaid expansion to subsidize low-income participants?Tim Kaine (D): Supports ACA; has voted against all efforts for full or partial repeal.
Praised Virginia's Medicaid expansion.
Corey Stewart (R): Full repeal. "ObamaCare has failed." Called Virginia Medicaid expansion "a major disaster for our party." Replace Medicaid with state block grants.
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Virginia Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
On Immigration:
Illegal immigration threatens America's security & jobs
Q: Support path to citizenship for America's 11 million illegal immigrants, including "DACA" recipients or "Dreamers," who grew up in the US after being brought here illegally as children?Tim Kaine (D): Yes.
Supported comprehensive immigration reform to protect Dreamers, enhance border security & create earned path to citizenship for "those living in the shadows."
Corey Stewart (R): No. "Illegal immigration threatens America's security, jobs, & tax dollars." No amnesty. Build the wall.
Instructed his county police to check immigration status of anyone they believed were in the country illegally.
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Virginia Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
On Social Security:
Lifting cap would increase taxes on the little guy
Q: Address Social Security solvency?Tim Kaine (D): Opposes any privatization. Make more solvent by lifting cap that only taxes incomes up to $128,000.
Corey Stewart (R): Congress should stop "dipping into the
Social Security trust fund" for "things like settling sexual harassment claims." Lifting cap would "increase taxes on the little guy."
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Virginia Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
On Tax Reform:
Lowering taxes is the key to prosperity
Q: Support President Trump's tax cuts?Tim Kaine (D): No. They explode the deficit, only benefit big corporations & the very wealthy & raise healthcare premiums.
Corey Stewart (R): Yes. "Lowering taxes is the key to prosperity."
Trump cuts have yielded low unemployment & soaring corporate profits. Suggests making permanent.
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Virginia Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
On War & Peace:
Iran continues to be a state-sponsor of terrorism
Q: Support Trump withdrawal from treaty limiting Iran's nuclear capability in return for lifting economic sanctions?
Tim Kaine (D): Opposes withdrawal. Damages diplomatic credibility, weakens alliances. Reopens the door for Iran to start enriching uranium.
Corey Stewart (R): Supports withdrawal. "Iran continues to be a state-sponsor of terrorism across the planet."
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Virginia Senate race
Oct 9, 2018
On Civil Rights:
Protect Confederate monuments
Q [to Tim KAINE]: Corey Stewart, the man running against you, wants to protect Confederate monuments. That`s countering your description of how Virginia has moved forward after the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally.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.
Source: CBS Face the Nation on 2018 Virginia Senate race
Aug 12, 2018
On Civil Rights:
2017: praised Virginia decision to secede during Civil War
Virginia U.S. Senate candidate Corey Stewart (R) praised in a speech last year Virginia's decision in 1861 to secede from the Union, putting it on par with rebellions during the American Revolution and today.Said Stewart: "This is the state of
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and James Monroe. It's a state of the founders. It's the state of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution."
He added: "But it's also the state of Robert E. Lee, and
Stonewall Jackson, and J.E.B. Stuart. Because, at the base of it, Virginians, we think for ourselves. And if the established order is wrong, we rebel. We did that in the Revolution, we did it in the Civil War, and we're doing it today.
We're doing it today because they're trying to rob us of everything that we hold dear: our history, our heritage, our culture."
Source: PoliticalWire.com on 2018 Virginia Senate race
Aug 8, 2018
On Abortion:
Abortion is a woman's unrestricted righ
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right"?
A: Strongly oppose. Stewart is 100% pro-life.ÿ
Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Virginia Senate candidate
May 18, 2018
On Budget & Economy:
Market-led recovery better than stimulus
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Stimulus better than market-led recovery"?
A: Oppose.ÿ
Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Virginia Senate candidate
May 18, 2018
On Civil Rights:
Strongly supports traditional marriage
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Comfortable with same-sex marriage"?
A: Stewart believes in traditional marriage between one man and one woman.ÿ
Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Virginia Senate candidate
May 18, 2018
On Crime:
Stricter punishment for violent crimes
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Stricter punishment reduces crime"?
A: Oppose for minor drug crimes. Support for violent crimes.ÿ
Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Virginia Senate candidate
May 18, 2018
On Education:
Vouchers for school choice
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Vouchers for school choice"?
A: Strongly Support
Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Virginia Senate candidate
May 18, 2018
On Environment:
Fight EPA regulatory over-reach
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Fight EPA regulatory over-reach"?
A: Strongly Support
Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Virginia Senate candidate
May 18, 2018
On Foreign Policy:
Support American Exceptionalism
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Support American Exceptionalism"?
A: Strongly support
Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Virginia Senate candidate
May 18, 2018
On Free Trade:
Free trade only if the US is being treated fairly
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Support & expand free trade"?
A: Only if the United States is being treated fairly.ÿ
Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Virginia Senate candidate
May 18, 2018
On Gun Control:
Absolute right to gun ownership
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Absolute right to gun ownership"?
A: Strongly Support
Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Virginia Senate candidate
May 18, 2018
On Health Care:
Oppose ObamaCare
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Expand ObamaCare"?
A: Strongly Oppose
Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Virginia Senate candidate
May 18, 2018
On Homeland Security:
Expand the military
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Expand the military"?
A: Strongly support
Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Virginia Senate candidate
May 18, 2018
On Immigration:
Oppose pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens"?
A: Oppose
Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Virginia Senate candidate
May 18, 2018
On Principles & Values:
Keep God in the public sphere
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Keep God in the public sphere"?
A: Support
Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Virginia Senate candidate
May 18, 2018
On Tax Reform:
The wealthy are already disproportionately taxed
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Higher taxes on the wealthy"?
A: Oppose. The wealthy are already disproportionately taxed and it will not solve the problem. Congress must cut spending.ÿÿ
Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Virginia Senate candidate
May 18, 2018
On War & Peace:
Avoid foreign entanglements
Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Avoid foreign entanglements"?
A: Support
Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Virginia Senate candidate
May 18, 2018
On Civil Rights:
Unfair to condemn only white nationalists
Stewart said white nationalists had been unfairly singled out for their role in the weekend chaos in Charlottesville that left three dead and dozens injured.He blamed "half the violence" on counterprotesters and criticized fellow
Republicans who condemned the white nationalists. Stewart has made several joint appearances with -Jason Kessler, organizer of the "Unite the Right" rally that sparked the unrest in Charlottesville.
Source: Washington Post on 2018 Virginia Senate race
Aug 13, 2017
On Health Care:
Full repeal of ObamaCare
"There's an appetite for a Republican fighter. They're looking for a vicious, ruthless, Republican, conservative fighter," Stewart said. He plans to support conservative Sens. Ted Cruz,
Mike Lee, Ron Johnson and Rand Paul and call for a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Source: CNN.com on 2018 Virginia Senate race
Jul 13, 2017
On Drugs:
Marijuana decriminalization but not legalization
I'm not for legalization, but I am for decriminalization. I've had relatives who were jailed in some cases for 30 days because they simply were caught with a marijuana cigarette.
I don't think that's good for the person who spends time in jail. I don't think it's good for taxpayers, and I don't think it's a good use of law enforcement resources.
Source: WVTF on 2018 Virginia Senatorial race
Jun 6, 2017
On Energy & Oil:
Climate accord regulations are nonsensical
Trump "is rolling back nonsensical regulations, including the Paris climate accord which I think was a real damaging regulation on American businesses. It did not have the same level of restriction on India and China,
and so we were at a competitive disadvantage, and I think we've seen the results over the past several years where so many businesses are moving to China, to India, and many people have lost their jobs because of it."
Source: WVTF on 2018 Virginia Senatorial race
Jun 6, 2017
On Civil Rights:
Transgenderism is despicable
Corey Stewart said he would sign a bill that is equivalent to North Carolina's House Bill 2. "As governor, I will absolutely prohibit any locality from doing any such thing and promoting transgenderism in any way,
shape or form," he said at a forum the Amherst County Republican Party sponsored. "It's absolutely horrendously despicable."
Source: Washington Blade on 2018 Virginia Senatorial race
Apr 5, 2017
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