Lisa Lerer
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Yeah, I think the president learned and perhaps the country learned that Democrats can, in fact, still win elections.
This was a party that was pretty demoralized, and they got a huge boost of momentum and energy this past week and showed, I think, the White House that there is still an opposition party.
And so one statistic that really stood out to me in this whole thing is that Mikey Sherrill, the Democratic nominee who now is Democratic governor-elect of New Jersey, got more than 300,000 more votes than the Democratic nominee did in the last off-year election like this, which was 2021.
So not only did she mobilize Democrats, she also got voters who were not previously voting for Democrats, people who voted for President Trump.
And in particular, there, we're looking at Black and Latino voters.
Trump made some real inroads in those communities in 2024.
And what we saw in these elections is some of those voters came back to Democrats that Trump was, in fact, like renting.
And for the White House, that's a big blow because that means that people are changing their minds about Trump in a negative way, that they were excited about the president, they voted for him, and now they're coming to the polls and saying, well, this isn't really working for us.
And I think what they want on the Democrats is really important, perhaps the most important thing.
Well, all three of the candidates in really the major races here.
So governor of New Jersey, governor of Virginia and mayor of New York City, which captured outside attention as it is want to do, ran on really these messages that were.
So focused on cost of living and affordability, like this was the my rent, housing, electricity, grocery, health care costs are all too damn high election.
The reason why that is so unnerving for Republicans is traditionally economics have been a very strong point for the president.
people have thought that he would do a better job handling the economy than the Democrats.