Richmond, Va. — The far-right demonstrators that rallied in Charlottesville last weekend and engaged in violence are not conservative or even on the usual American political gamut, GOP gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie claimed Saturday.

“These people were not on a legitimate left-to-right political spectrum of any kind,” Gillespie said at a gathering of activists with the free-market group Americans for Prosperity.

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