Why Democrats won the 2025 elections

Newly-elected Reps. Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger, seen here in 2019, will both be governors next year. | Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call The pendulum of American politics has swung again. Just one year after President Donald Trump and Republicans’ victories nationwide, the Democratic backlash has arrived in Tuesday’s elections. Democrats won both governor’s races on the ballot, in Virginia and New Jersey — that was expected. But they won by a lot. Though votes are still being counted, at the time of this writing, Mikie Sherrill was winning New Jersey by 13 percentage points and Ab