Voters in New Jersey and Virginia will choose their next governors on Tuesday in a pair of races that will serve as an early gauge of the American electorate\u2019s mood after US President Donald Trump\u2019s norm-shattering nine months in office.<\/p>\n
In New York\u2019s mayoral race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, faces 67-year-old Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat running as a more centrist independent after losing to Mamdani in the primary, four years after resigning as New York state\u2019s governor in disgrace.<\/p>\n
The campaign has laid bare the Democratic Party\u2019s generational and ideological divides as it seeks to rehabilitate its damaged brand.<\/p>\n
And in California, voters will decide whether to give Democratic lawmakers the power to redraw the state\u2019s congressional map, expanding a national battle over redistricting that could determine which party controls the US House of Representatives after next year\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n
Polls close first in Virginia at 7pm, followed by New Jersey, New York and California throughout Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n
Democrats will be watching Tuesday\u2019s results carefully, with the party locked out of power in Washington and struggling to find consensus on the best way to oppose Trump, a Republican, and find a path out of the political wilderness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters in New Jersey and Virginia will choose their next governors on Tuesday in a pair of races…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11508,80,2136,3673,651,153,6587,17971,10811,1445,6588,1066,9,11,10,49,51,50,17970,418],"class_list":{"0":"post-28889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-abigail-spanberger","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-ciattarelli","12":"tag-democratic-party","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-jack-ciattarelli","15":"tag-juan-benitez","16":"tag-kamala-harris","17":"tag-mamdani","18":"tag-mikie-sherrill","19":"tag-new-jersey","20":"tag-new-york","21":"tag-new-york-headlines","22":"tag-new-york-news","23":"tag-new-york-state","24":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","25":"tag-new-york-state-news","26":"tag-proposition-50","27":"tag-virginia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}