In a series of Truth Social posts, the president weighed in on a number of elections despite going against his own advice in one high-profile instance.
In Virginia, Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger is leading in polls over Earle-Sears, who Trump has given tepid support. The state’s gubernatorial elections typically come a year after the presidential campaign, and historically, the party that won the White House loses Virginia's Executive Mansion the next year.
The mayor’s race in New York will gauge voters’ desire for a left-wing shift, and Democrats running for governor in New Jersey and Virginia again made fighting the president central to their bids.
The push is the centerpiece of a Democratic effort to counter new Republican maps in Texas and elsewhere that were drawn to boost the GOP’s chances in next year’s fight to control Congress. In order for the new maps to count in 2026, however, voters will first have to approve a yes-or-no ballot question known as Proposition 50.