It\u2019s been a long time coming, but it\u2019s here now. Tuesday\u2019s election was a smashing. A stomping. A beautiful clobbering.<\/p>\n
The results amounted to a loud rebuke of Donald Trump\u2019s first year back in office. As Robert Hubbell put in his Today\u2019s Edition Newsletter, \u201cOn Tuesday, we passed the test in every imaginable way. We exceeded high expectations. We changed the electoral landscape. We delivered a statement that cannot be ignored by Trump, his enablers, or the corporate media.”<\/p>\n
Bottom line: It truly is celebration time, both for Democrats and democrats.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve read all the results of Tuesday\u2019s election, but it\u2019s fun to read them again:<\/p>\n
New York City: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Muslim and democratic socialist, defeated Andrew Cuomo in a landslide \u2013 50.4% to $41.6%. Mamdani was expected to win, but not by that much, and not with more than half of the total vote.<\/p>\n
California: Californians voted by a nearly 2-to-1 margin \u2013 65% to 35% — to redraw the state\u2019s maps to yield as many as five House seats for the party next year. Trump\u2019s chief propagandist, Karoline Leavitt, said the election was \u201crigged\u201d and \u201cfraudulent,\u201d but that mammoth margin makes her look plain down foolish, more foolish than ever.
\nNew Jersey: In what was expected to be a nail-biter, Democrat Mikie Sherrill bludgeoned Republican \u201cTrump of Trenton\u201d candidate Jack Ciattarelli 56.2% to 43.2%.<\/p>\n
Virginia: Democrat Abigail Spanberger pounded Republican Winsome Earle-Sears, 57.2% to 42.6%, to become Virginia\u2019s first female governor.<\/p>\n
Also Virginia: Democrat Jay Jones was elected attorney general despite his past incendiary text messages and having been caught driving 116 miles an hour on a Virginia highway. Despite heavy negative advertising from his opponent, Republican Jason Miyares, Jones won 52.5% to Miyaras\u2019 47.1%.<\/p>\n
Maine: Voters rejected a Republican-sponsored ballot measure that would have eliminated two days of early absentee voting, required photo identification in order to vote, banned prepaid return envelopes for absentee ballots, and limited drop boxes. They also approved a measure that will enable families to try to get a troubled relative\u2019s guns taken away.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania: Voters granted new 10-year terms to three Democratic justices on the state\u2019s supreme court. That matters because this court, the highest court in the most important swing state in the country. will have a liberal majority during the 2028 presidential election.<\/p>\n
Detroit: Democrat Mary Sheffield became the city\u2019s first female mayor, and the first new mayor in a dozen years.<\/p>\n
Charlotte: Two Democratic women won seats on city council and the school board that have been held by Republicans seemingly since forever.<\/p>\n
Georgia: In an upset, Democrats ousted two Republican members of Georgia\u2019s utility board, a statewide commission that hasn\u2019t had a Democratic member since 2007.<\/p>\n
Cincinnati: Incumbent Democratic Mayor and Indian-origin Aftab Pureval slammed JD Vance\u2019s half-brother, Cory Bowman, 78% to 22%.<\/p>\n