Christopher Newport’s Wason Center for Public Policy has released a November election analysis this morning. And as Charles Fishburne reports, it suggests the high stakes in Virginia’s Assembly election will preview the 2020 presidential race and turnout is key.
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Charles Fishburne: State Democrats need two seats in both the House and Senate to take control of the General Assembly.
Rachel Bitecofer: And so we are seeing competition in districts were didn’t see before.
Wason’s Rachel Bitecofer
Bitecofer: One example of that would be the Republican Speaker of the House of Delegates, Kirk Cox. His district I show has moved dramatically in terms of its partisan competition. It moved12 points, so it used to be a very, very safe Republican district.
Fishburne: Now she says, it is competitive.
Fishburne: She also says Democrats rode an anti-Trump backlash last election to pick up 15 House seats and want more and the real question is whether that surge will repeat in an off-year election, where turnout will be decisive. Charles Fishburne, VPM News.
