)"In April 2018, NBC News reported that “in the wake of the Parkland shooting and the national movement that has followed, gun control supporters hope they can change that dynamic in the 2018 midterm elections, starting with Comstock’s district in northern Virginia.” Several of her Democratic opponents were “making gun control centerpieces of their campaigns.” Mark Rozell of George Mason University said that “demographic changes and current events” added up to “almost a perfect storm against her.”

In October 2008, Comstock and Democratic operative Lanny Davis co-wrote an article in the "National Review" in which they expressed strong opposition to the call for reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine.