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VA-10: Comstock Moves From Toss up to Lean Democratic
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO Jun 19, 2018 02:10pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, June 19, 2018 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Two-term GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock (VA-10) is a tough, resilient campaigner who has persevered as the prosperous Northern Virginia suburbs have zoomed away from her party in the Trump era. In 2016, she won reelection by six points while Hillary Clinton carried the seat 52 percent to 42 percent. But in the current political environment, Comstock is the single most vulnerable Republican incumbent in the House.
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It's difficult to overstate how rapidly the fast-growing 10th CD's politics have shifted. It's the most college-educated GOP-held district in the country, and 37 percent of its residents are non-white. In 2011, Republicans drew it to elect one of their own. But in 2017 Democrat Ralph Northam annihilated Ed Gillespie 56 percent to 43 percent in the 10th CD. Down-ballot, the "blue wave" swept out six overlapping incumbent GOP state delegates. |
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