Democrats scored big wins across the board on Tuesday night in the first major elections of President Donald Trump’s second term, giving them new hope they can retake Congress during next year’s midterm elections.
The Democrats swept the gubernatorial contests in Virginia and New Jersey, the mayoral election in New York City, the state supreme court races in Pennsylvania, and prevailed in a ballot initiative that would effectively give the party control of congressional redistricting in California.
Democratic leaders, including the party’s would-be 2028 presidential candidates, are sure to frame the results as a massive rebuke of Trump and Republican congressional majorities just a year after the GOP won unified control of the federal government.
Most of these elections took place in blue areas and the
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