{"id":28027,"date":"2025-11-04T10:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28027\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:49:11","slug":"from-california-to-nyc-4-races-to-watch-this-election-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28027\/","title":{"rendered":"From California to NYC: 4 races to watch this Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voting concludes Tuesday for elections in a number of states and localities<\/a>, and perhaps the highest-profile contest is one that was only scheduled a few months ago.<\/p>\n

\nA special election in California allows the state’s voters to weigh in on what is now a cross-country redistricting battle between the two major parties ahead of next year’s midterm elections.<\/p>\n

\nHere are details on that contest and three others we’re watching this Election Day.<\/p>\n

California redistricting<\/p>\n

\nProposition 50 would replace California’s current congressional lines with a map favoring Democrats.<\/p>\n

\nThe maneuver is Gov. Gavin Newsom’s answer<\/a> to President Trump pushing Texas<\/a> and other<\/a> GOP-led states to redraw their congressional maps to give Republicans a better chance of hanging onto the party’s slim majority in the U.S. House.<\/p>\n

\nIf voters approve Prop 50 \u2014 which appears likely<\/a> \u2014 the new districts could help Democrats win up to five more House seats in the 2026, 2028 and 2030 elections. The proposition is written to expire<\/a> after the 2030 election, returning line-drawing power to the state’s existing independent citizens’ redistricting commission.<\/p>\n

\n\u2014 KQED’s Guy Marzorati<\/a><\/p>\n

New York City mayor<\/p>\n

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New York City mayoral candidates former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (left), Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa at a debate on Oct. 16.<\/p>\n

Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist and frontrunner in the race for mayor of the nation’s biggest city, trounced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and nine other Democrats in the primary<\/a> by running a grassroots campaign that inspired younger voters<\/a> through a relentless focus on making New York City more affordable.<\/p>\n

\nHis primary win energized portions of the party’s base, while making him a foil for Republicans across the country.<\/p>\n

\nCuomo opted to stay in the mayor’s race by running as an independent<\/a>. He’s criticized Mamdani as too inexperienced to deal with Trump. Cuomo has also argued that the state legislator’s campaign platform, which includes free buses and universal childcare, can’t be delivered.<\/p>\n

\nIf elected, Mamdani would be the city’s first Muslim mayor and, at 34, its youngest in more than a century.<\/p>\n

\u2014 WNYC’s Brigid Bergin<\/a><\/p>\n

New Jersey governor\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rep. Mikie Sherrill, New Jersey’s Democratic nominee for governor, and Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican nominee<\/p>\n

The two leading candidates for governor in New Jersey are locked in a tight race.<\/p>\n

\nTrump has been tele-campaigning<\/a> for Republican Jack Ciattarelli, a former small business owner who narrowly lost the gubernatorial election four years ago. Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a former Navy pilot, held an endorsement rally with former President Barack Obama on Saturday and has a slight edge over Ciattarelli in recent polling.<\/p>\n

\nPolls also show issues like housing affordability<\/a> and high electric bills are top of voters’ minds, but the contest has been dominated in recent weeks by personal attacks<\/a> on both sides<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nIf Sherrill wins, it would be the first time since the 1960s that New Jersey voters elect a governor from the same party three terms in a row.<\/p>\n

\u2014 WNYC’s Mike Hayes<\/a><\/p>\n

Virginia governor\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (left), the Republican nominee for Virginia governor, and Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic nominee<\/p>\n

Democrats are hopeful that history may be on their side as the party in power in the White House typically loses the race for governor<\/a> in Virginia.<\/p>\n

\nIn her campaign<\/a>, Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former member of Congress, has hammered the rising cost of living and voter anxiety over the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce. The Republican, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, has campaigned on tackling crime, lower taxes and calls to ban transgender students from girls’ sports and bathrooms in public schools.<\/p>\n

\nEither candidate will make history<\/a> as Virginia’s first female governor. Earle-Sears would be the first Black woman elected governor in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u2014 WAMU’s Margaret Barthel<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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