Democrats credit economy focus for major 2025 election wins in New Jersey and Virginia, flipping script from 2024 losses with affordability-centered campaigns.

Instead, the two Democrats won so decisively because they also flipped a crucial sliver of voters who said they supported Mr. Trump in 2024. Ms. Sherrill and Ms. Spanberger both won 7 percent of Mr. Trump’s supporters, according to the exit polls.

Democrats in Colorado hailed the flipping of Aurora's council, as progressives were set to take majority control from conservatives following Tuesday's election in a city U.S. President Donald Trump said had been "invaded and conquered" by illegal immigrants from Venezuelan drug gangs during the 2024 election campaign.

Hours before the first major elections since President Donald Trump’s win last November, Sen. Bernie Sanders offered a stern warning for Democrats about the party’s secret talks to end the shutdown.

For a day, at least, beleaguered Democrats are hopeful again. But just beneath the party's relief at securing its first big electoral wins since last November’s drubbing lay unresolved questions about its direction heading into next year’s midterm elections.

The projected state House wins smooth over Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger's chances for advancing her agenda upon being sworn into office. Democrats Ghazala Hashmi and Jay Jones also won races for the state's lieutenant governor and attorney general, respectively.

Democrats’ dominance in Tuesday’s elections reset expectations ahead of next year’s midterm battle for House and Senate control, reinvigorating a party that has been in the political wilderness and leaving Republicans lamenting that the gains President Donald Trump made a year ago with key portions of the electorate all but evaporated.

The senior elections analyst at RealClearPolitics on what the Party might’ve learned, and how the electorate is changing.

Three political experts told Fox News Digital what they think it means for Democrats after they elected a Virginia attorney general who promoted political violence.