Tuesday night could hardly have gone better for Democrats. They easily held the governor’s mansion in New Jersey, flipped it in Virginia, and won voter approval to gerrymander California aggressively in their party’s favor. In all three of these elections, they won by more than Kamala Harris did in the 2024 presidential election, and by a much larger margin than the polls had suggested they would. Perhaps Democrats’ most impressive victory was in Georgia, where they ousted two Republican members of the statewide energy-regulation board by 25 points.
These are serious achievements for a party in the wilderness. But to conclude that Democrats have solved their electoral difficulties, or have even begun to, would be a mistake.
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