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Last night was a great night if you had a D next to the end of your name, and that's not something we could have said for a long time.

Beyond New York City, Democrats won two headline governor's races in New Jersey, where Congresswoman Mikey Sherrill was successful.

And in Virginia, where Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger will become the first woman to be governor.

That's a commonwealth, as they like to remind us, not a state.

Even beyond that, there were two Democrats who won statewide in Georgia.

The first time that that has happened in a very long time.

And local races, flips from R to D. And even in California, importantly, Governor Gavin Newsom's gambit about redistricting, which gives Democrats there the opportunity to draw new congressional maps and combat Republican tactics in places like Texas, passed overwhelmingly as well.

Tonight,

after poking the bear.

This bear roared.

The results, I think, confirm the evidence of the polling data as well, which is that there is a broad discontent with Trump's second term.

The sequel is not as popular as the original.

And in the key areas, particularly his handling of the economy, of prices, of discontent around tariffs, Donald Trump has taken what has been his best issue as kind of a safe and prosperous manager of country and made it among his worst.

And Democrats were able to seize on that all across the country.

So Sheryl and Spanberger are both members of the same class in the Democratic House of Representatives.

They came in in 2018 in that wave against kind of Trump's first election.