Thank You for your Help Donald Trump‼️…..
Democrats delivered a resounding rebuke to President Trump in all five of the most-watched races in Tuesday’s elections, as voters responded to candidates’ promises to address frustrations with high prices and Trump.
- It wasn’t just that Democrats, as predicted, won key races in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California and New York City. In race after race, the margins of victory — including double-digit wins in the Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races — were what resonated.
- County after county moved blue.
- “The Democratic Party is back,” declared House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
- Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist elected New York City’s mayor, told supporters his victory represented “a mandate for a new kind of politics, a mandate for a city we can afford.”
The big picture: Even as Democrats celebrated late Tuesday, it was clear the results didn’t settle the Democratic Party’s civil war over the best way to move forward after its crushing losses in 2024.
- Progressive and moderate Democrats both emerged with genuine measures of victory Tuesday — and they’re already wielding it as evidence that it’s their side that should lead the party out of the wilderness in 2026 and 2028.
- Progressives in New York City and California fired up their base to elect Mamdani, and to redraw California’s congressional map to help Democrats’ push to flip five U.S. House seats next year.
Centrist and establishment Democrats had clear victories in Virginia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania:
- Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey won races for governor by double-digit margins after touting their law enforcement bona fides, promising to lower costs and running against Trump’s management of the economy.
- In Virginia’s attorney general race, Democrat Jay Jones — widely viewed as particularly vulnerable because of a texting scandal — led Republican incumbent Jason Miyares by 6 points with 95% of the vote counted.
- Virginians “chose pragmatism over partisanship” and the “Commonwealth over chaos,” Spanberger — the first woman ever elected Virginia governor — told supporters in declaring victory.
- In Pennsylvania, Democrats carried three Supreme Court contests on an anti-Trump, pro-abortion rights message.
Democrats’ celebrations were even a split screen when it came to surrogates — many of whom happen to be potential 2028 presidential candidates:
- Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) were active campaigners in New York City and California.
- In Virginia and New Jersey, Spanberger and Sherrill deployed an army of more mainstream Democratic validators such as Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Zoom in: Progressives and moderates found common ground in their focus on affordability, but differed wildly on solutions…..
image…Photos: Virginia Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger by Alex Wong/Getty Images; New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani by Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty
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Playbook: “These were the first major elections since Donald Trump returned to the White House, and there’s no other way of spinning the voters’ response: Democrats out-performed expectations in every significant race across America…”
“The margins of victory were immense. Spanberger won by more than 15 percentage points — far outpacing any recent Democratic win in Virginia, including Ralph Northam’s blowout 2017 victory at the equivalent point of Trump’s first term. In a New Jersey gubernatorial contest billed as a close-run, Sherrill’s double-digit win almost matched her former roommate’s in Virginia. Sherrill flipped at least five Trump-supporting counties back to the Democrats last night.”
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Democrats get huge wins and voters send a message for Donald Trump
…He is so unpopular that he wasn’t asked to campaign in person in New Jersey or Virginia. California Democrats used Trump to generate enthusiasm for the redistricting measure….
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