After a stinging loss in 2024 and close to a year of near-powerlessness in Washington, many Democrats are heading into Tuesday’s elections with something they haven’t felt in some time: hope.

Buoyed by polling showing President Donald Trump’s approval rating underwater and Democrats more trusted to address key issues, many expect Democratic candidates to come out ahead in most if not all of the key races facing voters on Tuesday, among them the New Jersey and Virginia governors’ races, New York City mayoral race, Pennsylvania judicial elections and California Proposition 50, which authorizes mid-decade redistricting in that state.

“Democrats should come out winning all five of these contests,” said J. Miles Coleman, a longtime election researcher who serves as associate editor of Sabat

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