Nearly one year since Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, Americans' concerns and anxieties about high bills, inflation and the cost of living that helped propel him back to the White House now loom over the upcoming elections in New Jersey and Virginia. How acutely voters are grappling with those challenges -- and who they hold responsible for them -- could shape the outcome of the major gubernatorial races, and with them, the trajectory of both parties heading into the 2026 midterms, experts told ABC News. "The theme of affordability is pretty widespread across these elections," Dr. Ashley Koning, the director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University, told ABC News. The message of affordability also propelled Zohran Mamdani, a little-known New

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