Key victories in “bellweather” elections have energized Democrats and mark the first major defeat for Republicans since Donald Trump took the White House last November.
Democrat Ralph Northam had called the president a “narcissistic maniac” in a television ad before his victory in the Virginia governorship election, which was billed by his party as a referendum on Trump.
In the same state, Danica Roem, who is transgender, unseated one of the state’s longest serving and most socially conservative lawmakers, and Chris Hurst, a former television journalist, won on a platform that included gun violence prevention.
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