Elena Schneider, Erin Doherty, and Jessica Piper, writing for Politico after Tuesday’s strong electoral showing for Democrats:

All across the country, Democrats won big, from the marquee races to the down-ballot contests. Counties that had shifted right a year ago veered back to the left, and the suburbs that powered Democrats’ massive wins in the first Trump administration came roaring back. Exit polls even showed Democrats improved their margins with non-college educated voters.

The strength of the wins hints at Democrats’ appetite to take on Trump as he ends his first year in office and voters’ concerns about cost of living.

Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill cruised to double-digit victories in Virginia and New Jersey. Two Georgia Democrats flipped seats on the state’s Public Service Commission, the first non-federal statewide wins for a Democrat in nearly two decades. Democrats flipped a pair of Republican-held state Senate seats in Mississippi, cracking the GOP supermajority in a deep-red state. And a successful California ballot measure delivered five additional seats for the party’s House margins ahead of the 2026 midterms, offsetting Texas’ redistricting push.

Zohran Mamdani also won the New York Mayoral race.

Americans have grown weary of Donald Trump’s divisive, vindictive, and revanchist politics—and they’re electing leaders unafraid to wield the power of their offices to stop him.

Trump, naturally, throws Republicans under the bus.