Abby McCloskey, Bloomberg, November 6, 2025

“By any metric, Tuesday’s elections were a blowout. Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani is the new mayor of New York City. The new Democratic governors in Virginia and New Jersey won with double-digit margins. Voter turnout was off the charts.

Democrats’ wins speak to Trump’s unpopularity, the chaos that has accompanied his administration and voters’ continuing frustration with persistently high prices. The GOP has been warned.

But a year out from the 2026 midterm elections, Democrats are still at a structural disadvantage. During the Biden era, Republicans began to outnumber Democrats nationwide, upending an advantage Democrats had held since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Last year, a larger share of Americans identified as Republican than at any time since 1991.”