Danielle Thomsen

“On average, experienced candidates are more likely to win,” said UC Irvine political science [associate] professor Danielle Thomsen. “And this makes sense because they have run successful campaigns in the past, because they’ve developed a record that they can run on and they can point to. And they’ve created a campaign team that’s had success in the past.”

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