republicans and democrats to work together. >> that's rare these days. >> >> i want to keep virginia a leader in research, technology, and the good jobs. i help create the virginia tech medical school and research campus here. it's now a major employer that saves lives with cutting-edged research. we've fallen behind china in research. investing in centers like this can change that. medical research creates jobs, builds local economies, and makes health care better for ll virginians. >> senate candidates spoke at a town hall meeting. they discussed domestic policy and the economy. >>

>> good evening and welcome to tonight's u.s. senate town hall between a democrat, senator tim kaine, and his challenger, corey stewart. events like tonight's are extremely important as we head into a crucial midterm into a crucial midterm election. member, the vote is on november 16. tonight's townhall will focus primarily on domestic issues. the next townhall, at hampton university, will focus more on foreign policy and national security. we are live here at liberty university. i'm len stevens, executive director of communications at liberty university.

mark: i'm mark spain. we will bring the candidates out one at a time. each candidate will begin by answering questions from me right here. i and my co-moderator, len stevens, are the only two who have seen these questions. after that q and a, we will send it to you. len: i will be with dozens of liberty university students who hail from all over the country. they will be able to ask questions directly of the candidates. when that segment has ended, each candidate will have one minute to make a closing statement. i know these voters have thought a lot about the issues. they are ready to go. mark: we want our studio audience to refrain from cheers and applause during the question and answer segment. it is ok to applied when we welcome the candidates on to the stage. please welcome corey stewart. [applause]

>> it is good to see you again. we interviewed with each other several weeks ago, so it is our last time in the past several months or so. mark: we've got some important issues to get to. the nomination of judge brett kavanaugh to the supreme court is under fire. dr. christine blasey ford alleges that kavanaugh sexually assaulted her 40 years ago. you've called the investigation "a bunch of crap." you say democrats are just trying to derail his nomination for political gain. what is your message to women voters especially in this "me too" era. mr. stewart: thank you. i would like to thank the university and thank you, mark. how many times have we been through this? the 11th hour. whether you are a republican, democrat, liberal, conservative, that all this time goes by and, on the week

the committee is set to vote, then this comes up. i find the timing highly suspect, and i'm not the only one. then you've got senator feinstein. she knew about this weeks ago. why didn't she come out with it back then? hy did senator feinstein not inform the fbi or other law enforcement officials? why did she do nothing. why did she sit on this allegation until the week the committee was set to vote on t? frankly, it has become very frankly, it has become very typical of the left to do his. at the 11th hour in a very dirty trick to try to take down a very good man who even the dean of yale law school, not exactly a conservative, said is at the 11th hour in a very dirty trick to try to take down an eminent scholar, lawyer, judge, and is qualified for the supreme court.

mark: should the fbi do an investigation? mr. stewart: i think it's time to vote. i think americans are frustrated with all of these. it's become a circus. they are tired of republicans and democrats bickering, these dirty tricks. they just want an up or down ote. mark: along the lines of the court, with judge kavanaugh, if he makes it through this process, there is some thinking that roe v. wade could be gone by the wayside. is that something you would like to see happen? mr. stewart: yes. i will tell you why. it was wrongly decided. at this point -- let me say this. earlier this year, senator kaine, who, when he was running for governor -- i don't know what happened to him in the meantime -- when he was running for governor, he said it was a moral imperative to limit bortions in the late term.

suddenly, he runs for vice president and something happened. now, he wouldn't even vote for a bill to limit abortions up to the ninth month of pregnancy. senator kaine knows it's wrong but, for political expedients, he's willing to allow abortions up to the moment of birth. i find that morally reprehensible. ne of our jobs, the most important job we have whether important job we have whether we are representing people on a local, state, or federal level, is to protect the lives and the rights of the citizens we serve. mark: the mueller probe is looking into russian interference in the 2016 election. president trump calls it a witch hunt, so do you. it has already led to five

people connected to donald people connected to donald trump pleading guilty to federal charges, and a number of charges including two dozen russians. why and it? mr. stewart: if you are really looking for voter fraud, why don't we have the department of justice looking to some of these precincts where there were more votes than voters. if you are looking at corruption in our voting system, we have some of it going on here in virginia. yes, we require voter id when you go to vote we don't require proof of citizenship when you go to register to vote. every vote by someone who is not authorized to vote, who is not a citizen or not 18 years old, every single time somebody votes twice or is not authorized to vote, that is a votes stolen from an american citizen. that is a much bigger problem than all of these unsubstantiated claims. the russians have been spying on us since 1917. mark: you know that a number of

intelligence agencies say they were involved. mr. stewart: yes, but not a single agency has said the russians actually had an impact n the national election. ark: the census bureau's annual report on income and poverty shows that, among those who hold bachelors degrees, about 3.6 million or 4.8% were living in poverty in 2017, up from 3.3 million in 2016. bachelor degree recipients with the only education group to see the number or share of those in poverty rise among their ranks. how do you reverse that trend ere in virginia? mr. stewart: i want to make some changes. we have a problem with debt. liberty has an excellent track record of making sure their graduates have jobs in the field in which they study.

not all colleges and universities can say that. it is not just the amount of money, not just the student debt, it is something no one can ever give back to them, and that is your time. you spent the prime of your life studying and, you can't find a job, or you can't find a job in the field you received our education. there's a way to fix this. since the early 1970's, the can ever give back to them, and that is your time. united states department of education has been in charge of accreditation. if you want to go to a university or college and get a student loan or a federal grant, that university or that

school needs to be accredited. it's time to take that power away from the federal government and give it back to with industry, with business associations, with chambers of commerce. what is it that the workforce needs? what is the training, what is the education that you need as a business? only by doing that and accrediting specific courses can we be in short as students, as canadians, that they will have a job waiting for them. mark: you say that every illegal immigrants should be deported, no questions asked and that if you are elected, you will oppose any form of amnesty. there are roughly 12 million illegal immigrants in the country and studies suggest many of them here for 10 years or more. if you get a chance to sponsor a bill, what would it look like? mr. stewart: we need to base our immigration system, as we once did, on merit. if you want to come to the

united states, we welcome you. you can't have a criminal background. you have to be able to support yourself and your family. you need to be able to become a full-fledged proud american. right now, we have chaos at the border. people coming across the border. here's the big problem with that. we have no way of screening them. let alone for a terrorist past, we have no way of being sure they don't have a criminal ast. they come into our communities and they murder and assault right here in virginia. they come into our communities the latest example, of course, the most famous example is in iowa, mollie tibbetts murdered by an illegal immigrant. it was 100% preventable. what i've done on the local level is this.

we check everybody's immigration status once they are arrested. we don't care what language you speak, what ethnicity, if you are here illegally and you commit a crime, we have you deported instead of eleased. 8000 criminal illegal aliens in prince william county alone. mark: you have been critical of gun free zones in schools. whether they are school resource officers to help them defray the costs. you also support having teachers carry weapons if they have the training. what do you say to those who say is a bad idea to arm teachers? mr. stewart: you know it is a bad idea? the system in place now.

have you ever seen a gun free zone in front of a bank? why is it any better that we are protecting our kids with signs. we are protecting our money with guns and our kids with signs. you know what a gun free zone sign is? it is an invitation for someone to shoot the place up and not be confronted by another unman. what we need is what we did in prince william county. after the sandy hook massacre, we put -- out of 95 schools in prince william county, we put armed school resource officers who worked together on school issues and helped to build trust between the police and students.

what we want to do is make that all over to all of our schools. not all communities can afford it. that's when the federal government should come in to make sure all our kids are safe. mark: time for us to take a quick break. when we return, liberty university students will have a chance to ask questions directly. you are watching the town hall brought to you by liberty university and hampton university. [applause] welcome back. welcome back.

len: it is now time for our students at liberty university to pose their questions directly to mr. stewart. let's get to it. i'm going to call out the name and the topic. tim is a junior from pittsburgh, pennsylvania. the topic is your candidacy. tim: thank you for being here. my name is tam and i'm the president of the college republicans at liberty. in my experience, with those in my generation, i found that many republicans are hesitant about your candidacy and rhetoric. the polling shows you down significantly to senator kaine. how do you plan to win republicans over at you will need our support to win this election? mr. stewart: thanks a lot. something that not everybody knows is that i am currently elected, and not just in a solidly conservative part of the state. i'm the at large chairman of the board of supervisors for prince william county. it's almost a half million eople. it is the first

majority-minority county in virginia and i been elected and reelected there four times. i've done that because i've been able to work together across party lines. i've been able to work together with people of all different backgrounds. at the end of the day, that's what people want. i'm not afraid to stand up for my values. i saw what was happening on illegal immigration with crimes committed against citizens in my community and i did something about it. i got something done. what i want to do in the senate. it's ok that we have differences but, at the end of the day, i think we can agree that we have something in common as well. a lot of these problems -- in washington right now, it's broken. republicans aren't talking to democrats, democrats aren't talking to republicans. we have a divided media. we don't all think alike but we can focus and concentrate on the things we can get done together. len: next up is nathan, a

first-year law student from ohio. the topic, the national debt. nathan: would you vote for a spending bill that increased the national debt in the enate? mr. stewart: we have to address the national debt. but, to get there, there's a couple things we have to do not. one is this -- we have to acknowledge. one is this. what reagan did in the 1980's was lower taxes. t is possible to grow your way out of debt by becoming a more wealthy country. a lot on the left have criticized the tax cut that was ut of debt by becoming a more proposed by president trump. that was put into place by the republicans in the senate, the republicans in the house. in the short term, there was an increase to the deficit.

but what this has led to now is the highest rate of economic growth in decades. proposed by president we have the lowest unemployment rate in this country. we are only eight months in to his tax cut and already we have the lowest unemployment rate in 52 years. wages for working class, blue-collar americans are rising at the fastest rate in 22 years. this is because of the trump tax cut. you can go into the short term, not the long term. the short term, you reduce taxes and that actually makes the economy start rolling as it is now. we have seen growth rates that we haven't seen in this country have the lowest unemployment ate in 52 years. since the 1950's. as that continues, we will continue to grow and debt will ecome more affordable to our

ation. nation. >> there's certainly a lot of economic progress but are you concerned that the white house office of management and budget office of management and budget has revised this number upwards in terms of our debt? mr. stewart: the problem isn't that our taxes are high enough. the problem is that we are spending too much. we have republicans and democrats spending too much. they are not willing to tackle the things that are driving the deficit. an unreformed medicaid system developed in 1965 that is breaking the budgets not just of the federal government but of the state governments as well. as that happens, we are crowding up funding for everything else, including education, transportation. these things need to be addressed. if we can do it together, work together as republicans and democrats, and put the politics aside and say, look, let's reform the medicaid system and lower the cost for the federal

and state governments, we will be able to address the national debt but at the same time and state governments, we will improve the quality of health care in this country. len: let's get to emily from north carolina, a senior. her question is on lgbtq rights. we have about five minutes. emily: according to a pew research study, 61% of young republicans support lgbtq rights. how do we protect religious liberty well avoiding discriminating against people based on their identity? mr. stewart: so, you've got to remember what our constitution does. our constitution prevents the federal government and now, by extension, the state government, from discriminating against its citizens. the think about our rights in this country. they are listed in the bill of rights.

first and foremost -- and the founders placed these in order. order. in the first amendment is not just the freedom of speech and xpression, but we also knew it government, freedom of government, freedom of religion. you might not -- as long as it is not the government that is doing it, we cannot ensure that the government will infringe on someone's religious beliefs and force them to provide a service based on your sexual orientation. we have to stay true to our constitution. len: a senior from woodbridge, virginia. your question is on minority support. >> my question is, how do you plan to gain the support to protect american rights of minorities, especially after events that happened like in charlottesville virginia and

continuing with woodbridge as ell? mr. stewart: from woodbridge, lake ridge? ice to meet you. i believe in talking to the other side. yesterday, there was another forum, the radio one richmond, a minority events. i know many democrats were there and they wouldn't expect that i would say yes. they probably thought i would face a crowd that had some tough questions for me. i did. i think we have to talk with one another. next week, i've accepted an invitation to appear in front of the naacp of fairfax county. i know they will have some tough questions but that's ok because we are yelling at each other in this country. we don't have to have the same believes but we have to be able to talk to one another. that's what i'm going to do.

i've been able to work with the other side and i know, when i go to the naacp in fairfax, it is going to be an important moment because we can work ogether. len: i believe that is going to be our last question. you do get one full minute to make your closing remarks. mr. stewart: thanks. i want to thank again the university, each and every one of you, all of virginia. and i want to thank all of those who voted for me in the primary for giving me this opportunity to represent all of of you, all of virginia. virginia. i've got very strong beliefs and i'm not afraid to express them. i think you all know that. but i can also get things done. what i see in washington, i see two sides that are not willing to work together. i see two sides that are bickering. the democrats say they want to

get things accomplished but the republicans won't let us. i see the republicans saying the same thing. as a local person, somebody who has had to represent a big jurisdiction, if i had that same attitude, i would have been fired. i'm going up to washington not because i want to keep it the same as senator kaine does, but because i want to change it. i want to rile things up but also get things accomplished. i'm willing to work to do that and i ask for your vote. thank you. [applause] len: thank you for being here. mr. stewart, again, thank you so much for being here. our town hall is going to continue right after this break ith senator tim kaine.

>> a serious charge has been sexual ssentially a assault. we have to get to the bottom. this is a vacancy that swrust sexual assault. on july 31 when justice kennedy retired we'resen weeks into this. the g.o.p. majority held the vacancy open for 14 months for political reasons. if we care about sexual assault, if we think it is serious we should do everything the get to the bottom. that would obviously involve hearing from dr. for and judge kavanaugh. there are a couple of o witnesses who have been identified one who the algation ays was in the room.

why wouldn't why wouldn't we want the hear? why wouldn't the f.b.i. has already done a background investigation. why wouldn't they reopen it to look at this particular charge? we should take the time to get this right. in this i dimb from my opponent. my opponent called the allegations a bunch of crap. my opponent tweeted out that what's next b somebody will say judge kavanaugh pulled the pig tails of a first grader? you cannot equate pulling the pig tail of a first grader with two 17-year-olds allegedly barricading a 15-year-old in the room and sexual assaulting her. you cannot minimize this charge. there is a charge and there is enough crob ration that she sought counseling many years that she took a lie detector test and passed it. that the witness alleged in the room is somebody who has written about a history of blackout drinking and partying when he was in high school. we've got to get to the bottom. there's no reason to rush a supreme court nominee through. >> are you concerned with with judge kavanaugh on the high that row v. wade is in

jeopardy? >> i am. i'm concerned about that row v. well.precedent as when well. when i interviewed judge kavanaugh, he said rowe versus wade was settled law. we finally got documents from the white house he said settled law is only settled in the the supreme court says otherwise. we finall there's three people now who want to overturn it. what would that mean? that is what my opponent wants to do. what would that mean? it would mean we go back to what the law was before. that the state could use the criminal law to criminalize prosecute and jail women for making their own reproductive health care decisions. that's what it means to overturnrow versus wade. it's an important moral issue. but i think women can make their own moral decisions about including including

reproductive health care. >> the mueller probe. the president declassified to monitor the communication of his former campaign foreign policy adviser. he said it was for transparency. you want to protect robert mueller and his investigation. why is that level need snd this investigation has already cost the american taxpayers roughly $26 million. >> it's important to protect the integrity of our elections. there have already been over 30 indictments and guilty pleas of individuals as part of this investigation. so my opponent says it is a my opponent says it should be terminated. but this is an investigation into extremely serious allegations. and the guilty pleas and the indictments thus my opponent sa should be terminated. far have demonstrated it. so i think what we need to do is protect the investigation and let it complete. when all the facts are out on the table we will know if individuals are culpable and should be indicted or charged

but probably the most important thing that we need to know is how to stop how to stop a foreign adversary from ever doing this again. when i was on the ticket in 2016, my son was deployed as a u.s. marine infantry commander on the border with russia trying to protect our allies from russian interference. why would we deploy our young people halfway around the world to protect our allies but then suggest that we're uninterested in getting to the bottom of what russia did to our election system? >> you voted against the plan saying the senate let down the people we serve if and that americans will be stuck with the painful consequences for years to come. but the economy is booming and the white house said americans have the 2016 election to thank for that. the president tweeted recently that the g.d.p. is at 4.2% and we will do much better plan say senate let down the people we serve than this. e have just begun.

were you wrong? > look, i'm glad that were you wrong? >> look, i'm glad that the american economy is strong. that's for sure. but of course the economy performed better in the last 18 months of of president obama's term than it did in the first 18 months of president obama. president trump doesn't mind taking advantage of inherited wealth and i think he's doing it now. >> ladies and gentlemen. >> here's why i voted against the tax bill. with was the president right? do we need to do tax reform? absolutely. haven't done it since 1986. the last time we did president eagan said we're going to do it, make it bipartisan. ten months of hearings produced a 97- vote and it was a good reform. but here's the problem with with this it, make it bill and the reason voted against it. the priorities were with all wrong. deep permanent tax cuts for corporations tiny temporary expiring tax cuts for people add $2 trillion to the debt over 10 years.

i offered an amendment on the floor the evening let us offer one-minute amendments after handing us the tax bill to make the individual tax cuts permanent but not drop the corporate tax rate so far no republicans would vote it. we should have a tax code that treats workers and people as well as corporations. >> health care. the affordable care act. kane you voted against repeal and replace partial repeal and the so-called skinny repeal. the president called democrats like yourself obstructionists. are you one? and you and and you and senator michael bennett are pushing something called medicare act. you say it won't increase taxes by a penny, it won't increase the deficit. some would say if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. how is this going to work? >> kane you voted against repeal and replace partial i pr my democrat colleagues and three republicans and virginians to stop the republican effort to repeal the

affordable care act. it would have taken health insurance away. the cbo estimate was between 20 and 0 million people. it would have blocked our general assembly from just doing the medicaid expansion wrsh 400,000 virginians are going to get health care many for the first time in their life. i was proud to vote for that because i had virginians flooding my office talking to me about the fact that absent some of these make funds their child wouldn't have a wheel chair to go to school with. my o opponent wants to repeal the affordable care act. we would direct the centers for medicaid and medicare services to offer an insurance policy on the exchange that anyone could buy if they wanted to. the insurance policy would over the obama pcare essential

health benefits. medicare doesn't have to collect a profit. medicare doesn't have to pay taxes medicare doesn't have to pay fancy salaries, doesn't advertise on the evening news. it has a distribution network. if medicare offered this policy it would be significantly less expensive than what private insurance would offer. but they would recover a premium for it. so it's not going to increase the deficit or taxes. if you qualify for an obama care health subsidy you could you th to bring the cost down but we wouldn't force anybody to buy it. it would be available. i think what americans need is more choices and they need lower costs. that's what medicare x would do. >> you were governor during the virginia tech massacre so you have a unique perspective on this. after the shootings in parkland, florida, and a number of other school shootings there's been a lot of passionate debate about training and arming teachers. lee county school board voters

who say hey what happens in northern or central virginia may be ok for them but here this is what with wepped we want. we want to our our teachers? >> lee county school board decided to arm teachers because it can't afford to hire more school resource officers. what do you say to not tell lee school board i do or principals to secure their kids. if they have a strategy they think will work for them i'm not going to tell them otherwise. i know as the mayor of richmond with with my kids in the richmond public schools we put school resource officers to try to keep kids safe. so there's no one size fits all strategy. but the area that is so critically important was the painful lesson they learned on the worst day of my life in april of 2007 at virginia tech. a deranged young man who was mentally ill but in high school they knew how to help him succeed with makes and treatment, walked on to a where nobody knew

anything about him. his mental health declined. he was adjudicated mentally ill and dangerous. thus. it was illegal for him to have a weapon. but because of weaknesses in the background check system he was able to buy a weapon he was prohibited from having and 32 beautiful people, students, faculty, grad students lost their lives, and many were injured and families suffer to this day. so the painful lesson that i learned that day through that loss is there's a solution. if there's universal background checks where every time a gun is sold or transferred the person doing it has to check to make sure that the recipient isn't prohibited from having a weapon, we can reduce these crimes. we'll never eliminate crime, but that's not the test. the test is can we reduce crime and keep people safer? to 're unwith willing

learn after suffering, if we're unwilling to learn after we watch kids get gunned down in newtown or people at a club if florida or students in parkland or concert goers. if we're not learning to learn, shame on us. there's answers here that would work on universal background check is the one that would do the most good. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> e with must take a break. when we come back, the students will have an opportunity to speak with you.

let's get back to our liberty university students and their questions. a sophomore from cranston, rhode island with a question about immigration. >> thank you for being here. you are advocating for a framework on a merit-based point system. showing the world that we are a country of laws and enhancing our board security. it seems you have turned away from those you had a passion for in 2014. why is that? >> great question. it is in the independent -- declaration of independence and an important part of the system that we have. i continue to support immigration reform. most recently, i worked with lindsey graham to draft a bill that would permanently protect reamers. also, it would provide $20 billion in border security for the u.s. we put that bill on the floor of the senate in february, but the president came out against it. both are things that he campaigned on. he came out against it and no other republicans would join the bill. the answer is comprehensive immigration reform. also, it would provide $20 billion in border security for

the u.s. we put that bill on the floor we are not done it like -- i voted for a comprehensive bill in 2013. it passed the senate but then% it passed the senate but then know was -- no action was taken on it. it was everything. t was border protection. these that were formed, these that were formed, protection for dreamers and a path to citizenship. we passed through the senate but the house did not act. it is my hope that the house will act after november. the security issues are really important. dreamer protection is also important. thank you for asking that. >> a question about iolence. >> ms 13 gang members were sentenced to life in prison after being charged in the

mappings and death of teenagers. what actions we take to combat this type of crime? how does it connect with illegal immigration? >> sadly, when i was elected to the richmond the council, richmond had the second highest rate in the united states. in my time in office, we were able to bring down by the crime by more than 50%. when i was governor, we achieved -- we got virginia into one of the safest states in the country. we did not do it by cracking down on immigrants generally. we focused our attention on the back guys. one of the challenges is if there is a general crackdown on immigrants and you get your law enforcement to start to focus on those with immigration status rather than whether they

are rapists or arsonists, you can dilute your effort. when i was governor, the chief of police said let us fight against the crimes of the time that you just mentioned that they perpetrated. we should always go after bad uys. we should have tough law enforcement against them. if we wage a war against immigrants generally, we will not reduce crime. we will make our cities less safe. >> stuart martin is studying engineering and has a question about history. >> many of our historical monuments are being destroyed areas what do you plan to do for future generations? >> great question. it might be as important in virginia as anywhere because we love our history.

i had to grapple with this. i was the mayor of ichmond. we preserved some statues. we put up some new statues to we preserved some statues. recognize the voices and tories that had never been told. we also took down, when we had to take down bridges that were obsolete that were named after civil war generals. told. when we put the bridges back up, we named them after civil rights heroes. there were so many other streets in virginia named after some of the things that people battle for civil rights -- their stories were not even told. what i continue to do as governor, when we inaugurated the civil rights statue on the capitol grounds in virginia. what i basically believe is that you need to listen to your community and make sure that you are telling the full story, not just a part of this morning.

it was only civil war enerals. we put up a statue of richmond hero and human rights activist to say that richmond has more important and monumental people than just those between 1861 and 1865. that is the way that i approach these issues. > the issue of abortion. she has a question on this topic that i think is very valuable. >> it has been demonstrated throughout the judicial appointment procedures that your party has a litmus test against pro-life appointment. why should someone who is pro-life vote for you? >> i will skip the litmus test because i do not think that is the case. i will take your question. i am a catholic. my church has a very strict teaching.

i live my churches teaching through my adult life. i encourage everyone of you up here to live your faith. live your convictions. that is what i do. i do not think the job of an elected official is to legislate my catholic church's doctrine for everybody to follow, even those who are not catholics or have different points of view. there are an awful lot of people in this country who practice religions that have a different view about contraception than the catholic church. there are a lot of people that do not go to church but they are moral, ethical thinking people. i think using the criminal law, sing criminal law to criminalize, prosecute and even jail women and doctors for making this decision is exactly the wrong thing to do.

i believe that women can make different view about contraception than the catholic their own moral decisions about their health care. >> your opponent says he supports abortion up until the moment of birth. >> he horribly misquoted me. many courts have considered that exact law and found it nconstitutional. many courts, federal courts and tate courts. i took an oath. i swore to uphold the constitution of the u.s. i uphold the constitution of the u.s., and that bill that was before us had been ruled

on, to snow by virtually every court that had taken it up. -- >> death from opioids increased between 2016 and 2017. what will you do to address the epidemic? >> i think the vote was 9-1. the health committee where i sit in the finance committee and where senator warren six. it was a bunch of strategies it was a bunch of strategies around research, prevention, treatment. we have to tackle this problem. i am confident he will sign it.

>> how about a hand for our students? we have to tackle this senator kaine, we will go into your closing statements. >> thank you again for inviting s tonight. i started my time as a public servant when i took a year off in law school. teaching kids to be carpenters and welders. i have been a civil rights attorney a teacher at the university of richmond, and i have been honored to represent my state. a virginia that works for all. it is about virginia, solving problems and bringing virginia solutions to the forefront. it is about the dignity of orking people. a fair wage and tax code. finally, it is about those last two words in the pledge of allegiance for all. we need people to stand up. we do not have to accept the

vice of nurse or bitterness or anger. we need people to stand up for those last words in the pledge of allegiance. that is what i will do if i had the honor to be reelected. > senator kaine, everybody. [applause] >> we hope this has been informative for all of you. we will close this out, but we hope everyone has had a wonderful time and that this has been in normative for everyone. did you learn something about ach candidate? this is what that is about. that wraps up tonight town hall forum.

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