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Cowabunga! The Democratic Blue Wave crashed onto the Jersey Shore, Virginia Beach, Rockaway Beach, Malibu and even the shores of Georgia and Miami.
In Virginia, Abigail Spanberger did not just beat Winsome Earle-Sears: she crushed the Republican to become the first female governor of the commonwealth.
The same night, Jay Jones, the nominee for attorney general, overcame a scandal where he texted a Republican colleague likening the former Republican speaker of the House of Delegates to Hitler and calling the speaker’s children “little fascists” and won.
In New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill overcame plenty of doubters and clocked in a double-digit victory for the governorship against Republican Jack Ciattarelli when polling either showed her within single digits or even in a dead-heat. In doing so, she defied gravity and New Jersey will elect a Democrat as governor for the third consecutive time since 1961.
Then there was Zohran Mamdani, the insurgent democratic soci
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