“Donald Trump may not have much to do with county issues, but, these days, you go in with a partisan tide or you go out with a partisan tide,” said Stephen J. Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg. “If you happen to be [a Democrat] running for a board of supervisors seat in an area where there is a strong Democratic campaign for the House of Delegates or the Senate, that can only help you.”
