“In these partisan times, many people are willing to forgive a great deal from their team and forgive nothing from people on the other team,” said Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington.
“The people in the last 20 years who have moved here have moved here largely for issues of affordability,” said University of Mary Washington political scientist Stephen Farnsworth. “And those people are really changing the dynamics of this part of Virginia.”
As Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington, told local news station WTOP, “You want the bragging rights of having a good year in Virginia in year one of a presidential term, to give you a sense of the inevitability of gains during year two — the midterm congressional elections.”
University of Mary Washington political analyst Dr. Stephen Farnsworth breaks down the key statewide and local General Assembly races—and how the government shutdown could help shape the results.
“This is clearly a repudiation of President Donald Trump,” said Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington. “But of course he won’t see it that way.”
“It requires a much heavier lift on Election Day to get everyone to the polls than if a party had banked a lot of voters ahead of time,” said Stephen Farnsworth, a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington. “Democrats learned this lesson a while ago, but Republicans are struggling to catch up.”
