Zohran Mamdani, Democratic candidate for mayor speaks during a press conference celebrating his primary victory with leaders and members of the city’s labor unions on July 2, 2025 in New York.
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Democrats made a clean sweep in the three biggest contested elections in the United States on Tuesday night.
The top Democrat in the Senate, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, even before the races were called, said that their outcomes were a sharp rebuke to President Donald Trump, a Republican.
Trump, in a social media post, said that unnamed “pollsters” concluded that the reason Republicans lost on Tuesday was because he was not on the ballots, and because of the ongoing federal government shutdown, which began on Oct. 1.
The winners include Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim and self-described democratic socialist who will become the next mayor of New York City, according to NBC News projections.
In New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill is projected to become the next governor.
And in Virginia, Abigail Spanberger will become the state’s first female governor, and her fellow Democrat Jay Jones will defeat incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares, NBC News projected.
Jones, unlike the other Democrats who won big on Tuesday, was not seen as a betting favorite going into the night.
Jones’ fate in the race looked at serious risk in October after the disclosure of text messages he sent in 2022 that showed him fantasizing about shooting then-state House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican.
Schumer, who refused to endorse Mamdani before Election Day, in a statement said, “Tonight’s results are a repudiation of the Trump agenda.”
“The cruelty, chaos, and greed that define MAGA radicalism and are skyrocketing costs were firmly rejected by the American people,” Schumer said.
Schumer said it was “a good night for Democrats and our fight to lower costs, improve healthcare, and reach a better future for American families,”
“If Republicans want to keep blindly following Donald Trump into the abyss of chaos, let them,” Schumer said. “The rest of America is moving forward.”
