Democrats scored victories in the four major races of the night: the New York City mayoral race, the governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia and Prop 50, California’s redistricting ballot measure. Exit polling showed voters went to the polls with worries about the economy on their minds, coupled with broader discontent with the state of the country right now.
The night saw two kinds of Democrats win, hailing from opposite sides of the party. Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger, both moderates, won the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia, while on the far left, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani prevailed in his race for New York mayor over the state’s moderate ex-governor, Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent after Mamdani beat him in the primary.
The first person Mamdani quoted in his victory speech was socialist Eugene Debs, and he offered withering criticism of Cuomo, declaring, “Let tonight be the final time I utter his name, as we turn the page on a politics that abandons the many and answers only to the few.”
California voters said “yes” to Proposition 50, which will allow state legislators to redistrict before the midterm elections, an effort to counter GOP-led gerrymandering in other states. CBS News’ polling found those who support Prop 50 overwhelmingly cite opposition to the Trump administration as a reason.
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