“After a year mired in reflection and recrimination over the future of their party, Democratic governors are suddenly showing some swagger,” the New York Times reports.

“As they gathered this weekend for the annual holiday meeting of the Democratic Governors Association, the group’s new chair, Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, predicted that Democrats would expand on their 23 governorships and reclaim a majority of the nation’s top state jobs for the first time in 16 years.”

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