Another reason for the lopsided fundraising numbers is that a lot of the big money Republican donors are staying away from Corey Stewart — like the Koch brothers, for example, or the National Republican Senate Committee. Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics says they have other races to fund. “There are 10 seats that are up that Democrats control that are in states that Donald Trump carried in 2016, and so starting with that list those all would rank ahead of Virginia from the get-go.”