Key elections across US pose early test for Trump 2.0

VOTERS IN NEW Jersey and Virginia will choose their next governors on Tuesday in a pair of races that will serve as an early gauge of the American electorate’s response to President Donald Trump’s norm-shattering nine months in office.

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Meanwhile, in New York City’s mayoral race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, faces 67-year-old former Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent.The campaign has laid bare the Democratic Party’s generational and ideological divides as it seeks to rehabilitate its damaged brand. And in California, voters will decide whether to give Democratic lawmakers the power to redraw the state’s congressional map, expanding a national battle over redistricting that could determine which party controls the US House of Representatives after next year’s midterm elections.

Polls close first in Virginia at 7 p.m.ET (0000 GMT), followed by New Jersey, New York and California throughout the evening.