Zohran Mamdani defeated sex pest Andrew Cuomo to become New York City's next mayor; Virginia and New Jersey Democrats won governing trifectas; Georgia Democrats won their first statewide elections for non-federal offices since 2006; Mississippi Democrats broke the GOP supermajority in legislature; California voters approved a ballot measure to fight back against GOP redistricting; and Maine voters rejected a ballot measure that would have restricted mail-in voting.
Imagine an election whose outcome doesn't just determine the next two years, but the next decade. One where not just voting rights, reproductive rights, and civil rights - but democracy itself - is on the line, and candidates' rulings have implications for the next several election cycles, and the state's once-in-a-decade census and redistricting. One with notoriously low turnout, but historically high stakes.