Republicans are bracing for Tuesday’s off-year gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia to be a rebuke of President Donald Trump before next year’s midterm contests.
But Tuesday’s New York City mayoral race will likely provide Trump and Republicans with political fodder as the GOP prepares to defend its congressional majorities in 2026.
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger is poised to win on Tuesday over her Republican opponent, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears. One day before their election, the former congresswoman was polling ahead of her GOP counterpart by an average of almost 9 percentage points.
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Republicans are also concerned Earle-Sears could undermine Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares’s reelection against former Democratic state Rep. Jay Jones despite text messages he sent in 2022 about shooting then-Virginia
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