By Bo Erickson

(Reuters) -Voters in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia and California will cast ballots on Tuesday for a mayor, two governors and a redistricting measure – early tests of Democratic and Republican strategies ahead of next year’s congressional midterm election.

NEW YORK CITY MAYOR

New York City’s mayoral race is always watched closely as the city is the nation’s financial capital and its leaders’ decisions often influence national political discourse, at least for the locally dominant Democratic Party.

That’s why the race between Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old, fresh-faced state lawmaker who won the Democratic nomination, and Andrew Cuomo, the state’s former Democratic governor running as an independent, is so closely watched. The election pits Mamdani’s progressive stan

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