WASHINGTON — Democrats took a victory lap on Wednesday after sweeping the first major elections since Donald Trump returned to the White House, a much-needed balm for a wounded party that had spent much of the last year desperately trying to find its footing.

A new generation of Democrats, including the 34-year-old New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, won closely watched contests in New Jersey, New York and Virginia, while California voters resoundingly approved a new congressional map aimed at improving Democratic odds of winning the U.S. House next year.

“We won all over the country, in red counties and in purple counties and in blue counties. The reality is this was a huge rejection of the Trump extremism,” Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, told reporters, r

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