Corey Stewart: 'I don't have a racist bone in my body'

Republican Virginia Senate candidate Corey Stewart denied being racist on Sunday and claimed he didn’t know Jason Kessler was a white nationalist when he first became associated with him.

“At that time, I did not know that he was,” Stewart said during an interview on MSNBC’s “Kasie DC,” referring to Kessler, the man who organized the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., that resulted in the death of a counter-protester. “After we found out he was a racist, I wanted nothing else to do with him ever again.”