Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center, on November 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

The biggest lesson of this month’s sweeping Democratic election victories is that President Donald Trump is continuing to cast an outsize shadow over every other election during his presidential term.

Over the past several decades, the general trend has been that attitudes toward presidents from both parties have exerted growing influence over other elections. But even against that broader trend, Trump stands out.

In this month’s elections, as in 2018 and 2020, voters who disapproved of Trump’s job performance voted for the other party’s candidates at an even higher rat

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