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Democratic candidates and causes won resounding victories across the board in Tuesday’s elections. California’s Proposition 50 to redistrict the Golden State in favor of Democrats overwhelmingly won, while Democratic contenders were catapulted into the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia. In the latter, the Democrats also picked up at least 10 seats in the House of Delegates, which was part of the nationwide trend of Democrats winning on the local, as well as statewide level.

This is largely because under our two-party electoral system, Americans have extremely limited choices, and voters mostly express themselves by voting against. Deranged, deluded President Trump may have contended on social media that the Republicans lost because he “wasn’t on the ballot,” but while this is literally true, the fact is, he was figuratively all over the 2025 elections, which was a referendum on the wannabe king and his disastrous reign. The electoral results are a total repudiation, rejection, and rebuke of Trump and his policies, as well as of the GOP at large, showing that the people really hate Trump and what he’s wreaking as he wrecks America (and the East Wing of the White House).

The exception to the notion that citizens mainly “vote against” in U.S. elections is the race for New York City’s mayor. Decisively winning with more than half the ballots in a three-way race in a high turnout contest, Zohran Mamdani’s campaign triumphed with the enthusiastic support of tens of thousands of door-knocking, phone calling, envelope stuffing volunteers who wore out their shoe leather pounding the pavements, in order to get their candidate elected. In Zohran’s case, ballot casters were voting for the state assemblyman to send him to City........

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