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Ralph Northam, the Democratic nominee for governor, on Wednesday stood by a Democratic mailer that ties Republican Ed Gillespie and President Donald Trump to white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville.

“Ed Gillespie has had over 70 days to denounce the president of this country for not calling these white supremacists out for who they are, and I would hope that he would come forward and do that,” Northam said in an interview Wednesday during a campaign stop on the pedestrian mall in Winchester.

“Because the message is that we live in a very diverse society. That means that we need to be inclusive. We need to welcome people. Our lights need to be on, our doors open. We don’t promote hatred and bigotry in this country and in the commonwealth of Virginia.”

Virginia Democrats, who have decried Gillespie’s ads that portray Northam as soft on the street gang MS-13, issued a mail piece that superimposes images of Trump and Gillespie over a photo of torch-wielding white nationalists marching in Charlottesville in August. The message says Virginia voters have a chance to “stand up to hate” in the Nov. 7 election.