“For the Republicans, the primary contest was good news for Gov. Youngkin,” said Stephen Farnsworth, professor at the University of Mary Washington and director of the university’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies. “The candidates that he backed pretty consistently won their primaries around the Commonwealth and so the governor’s effort to secure a majority in the legislature was strengthened by Republican primary voter preferences.”
Stephen J. Farnsworth, Ph.D.
Political Science professor, focusing on the mass media, the presidency and Virginia politics
