New Yorkers attending an election night watch party erupt as NY1 projects Zohran Mamdani to win the mayoral election on Tuesday in the Queens borough of New York City. Jeremy Weine/Getty Images

Off-year elections gave Democrats some hope this week.

The party swept statewide elections in admittedly blue states and saw signs of a rebuke of President Donald Trump and a resurgence for Democrats after a year in the political wilderness.

They also, with a ballot measure in California and a strong majority in Virginia’s House of Delegates, began the process of redrawing congressional lines that could give them a better chance of regaining the House majority in midterm elections one year from now.

Voters in New York City, meanwhile, elected as mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist

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