Skip to main contentSkip to navigation Close dialogue1/2 Next image Previous image Toggle captionSkip to navigation Gavin Newsom and Abigail Spanberger, the California governor and the Virginia governor-elect. Composite: Reuters/Getty View image in fullscreen Gavin Newsom and Abigail Spanberger, the California governor and the Virginia governor-elect. Composite: Reuters/Getty A year after devastating Trump loss, have the Democrats begun to find their way back?Party was shell-shocked after 2024 defeat but Tuesday night’s coast-to-coast romp signals brighter times ahead It has been a year of soul-searching, hand-wringing, and self-flagellation for Democrats after a ballot-box rejection so thorough that some had come to believe that the party had lost not only the White House and Congress but the culture itself.Shell-shocked, Democrats entered Donald Trump’s second term in a political stupor – unsure of who they were or what they stood for. Their base had lost faith in its aging leadership class, and their brand, in Democrats’ own words, had become “toxic”: a party increasingly confined to coastal states, big cities and college towns. And even there, warning signs were flashing.Then came Tuesday night – a coast-to-coast romp in the first major elections of Trump’s turbulent return to the White House that exceeded even the party’s most optimistic projections.“What a night for the Democratic party,” California governor Gavin Newsom marveled, after news networks projected…
Published: November 8, 2025 12:01 pm
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