Democrats are set to sweep Tuesday's gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, with Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger projected to win.

Democrats swept the governors' races in New Jersey and Virginia on Tuesday. Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill was elected governor of New Jersey Tuesday, the Associated Press projected, defeating Republican Jack Ciattarelli to retain her party's stronghold on the state.

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New Jersey and Virginia have a long standing pattern of electing governors from the party opposite from the sitting president.

The results underscore the widespread backlash to Trump’s polarizing governance in the first year of his second term in office

Election Day 2025 is here, with consequential races in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia and a redistricting ballot measure in California.

Democrats have shown up in greater numbers than Republicans in early voting as a close race for governor between Mikie Sherrill and Jack Ciattarelli comes to a close.

Different Democrats have had all sorts of different strategies throughout the shutdown. But Democrats now want to try to speak with one voice.

"We are the ones that have done a great job on affordability... but we just lost an election, they said, based on affordability," Trump said Nov. 6.