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Future of Virginia retail marijuana market likely depends on next governor (Virginian Pilot)

Political expert Stephen Farnsworth, a professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington and the director of its Center for Leadership and Media Studies, is skeptical that cannabis policy alone will drive voter turnout. However, he predicts Democrats will retain their majority in the House.

“Normally, angry voters decide elections in Virginia,” Farnsworth said. “And the people who are usually the angriest the year after a presidential election are the people whose party lost the White House.”

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Democrats clash over approaches as party still searches for an identity (The National Desk)

Strategies Stephen Farnsworth, a professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington, says, point toward the 2028 presidential election officially being underway. When you’re looking at the Democratic Governor’s in particular, they’re trying to make more of a name for themselves. They’re trying to reshape the vision of the party,” said Farnsworth.

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Trump marks 100 days in office of second term (CTV News Canada)

“The Trump administration has reached across all kinds of policy areas, transgressed all kinds of lines in terms of the way Congress and the President usually work together and has so created an environment where there are a huge number of law suits and a huge number of questions about what happens to some of these policies going forward,” said Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington.

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