New Jersey was among the states with the biggest swings to Donald Trump in last year’s presidential election. Photograph: AP
Voters are heading to the polls across the US on Tuesday for state and local elections that will take the political temperature nearly one year into Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.
Hundreds of local government positions ranging from school board governors and city council officials to judges, mayors and governors will be voted on in dozens of states across the United States.
But races in the following five states will have national significance, providing the clearest signal yet of how Republicans and Democrats are faring in the eyes of the electorate one year out from next year’s midterm elections, when control of both chambers of Congress will be up for grabs.
New York
While mayoral races will take place in a number of states on Tuesday, the most closely watched contest will be held in New York City, where democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani appears on course to complete his remarkable rise from political newcomer to leader of America’s biggest city.
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, during a campaign event in Que
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