“Normally, not all of the president’s team makes it through,” Stephen Farnsworth, political science professor at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia, told UPI. “Senators, even senators of the president’s party, often turn down one nominee or threaten to do so and that nominee withdraws their candidacy.”
“Congressman Good may have lost the battle, but he has helped purge Republican moderates from the party,” Stephen Farnsworth, a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. “The Republican caucus in Washington, and in Richmond for that matter, is more uniformly conservative than it ever was.” But “the same inflexibility that makes the Freedom Caucus appealing to some Republican voters can be its undoing for some individual members, as Good learned in this primary,” Farnsworth said.
Enjoying the ease of an echo chamber in a politically volatile environment is “a very comforting experience” and can be what keeps viewers watching, said Stephen Farnsworth, author of “Presidential Communication and Character: White House News Management from Clinton and Cable to Twitter and Trump.”
“Well, it seems to me that once the Attorney General had decided that he was not going to compete for the Republican nomination for governor against the Lieutenant Governor, the chips fell into place very quickly,” said Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington.
Stephen Farnsworth, a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington, said it was “a smart move” by Attorney General Miyares to put his gubernatorial ambitions on hold and run for reelection next year.
“Well, I think it’s important to recognize that the second Donald Trump term will be much more without guard rails than the first term,” said Stephen Farnsworth professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia.
