Our preview of the #VAGov & #NJGov races this year, how the current and former occupants of the White House are impacting the race, and how they could serve as barometers heading into the 2022.
"If a Biden-like message offered by McAuliffe doesn't succeed in purple VA... [Dems] around the country will wonder if it makes more sense to chart a more independent course," said Stephen Farnsworth, a polisci professor at Univ. of Mary Washington.
On what GOP can take away:
"If Youngkin manages to pull this off-- it's because he basically walked a spider web across two really tall buildings. One of those buildings is the base of the [GOP] that loves everything about Donald Trump, and the other one- is suburban moderates."
^Quentin Kidd, the dean of Arts and Sciences at Christopher Newport University
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