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  • Democrats cruise as economic woes take toll on Trump’s GOP

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    WASHINGTON — Democrats are cruising in the first major Election Day since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

    And while a debate about the future of the Democratic Party may have only just begun, there are signs that the economy — specifically, Trump’s inability to deliver the economic turnaround he promised last fall — may be a real problem for his GOP heading into next year’s higher-stakes midterm elections.


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  • AP Race Call: Democrat Jay Jones Elected Virginia Attorney General Over GOP Incumbent Jason Miyares

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    WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Jay Jones won the race for attorney general of Virginia on Tuesday, ousting Republican incumbent Jason Miyares.

    Jones was criticized during the campaign after text messages he wrote in 2022 endorsing violence toward a political rival were made public.

    Jones is a former member of the state House of Delegates, representing a district around Norfolk for two terms.

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  • Democrat Jay Jones Wins Race to Be Virginia Attorney General Despite Texts Endorsing Violence

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    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democrat Jay Jones was elected Tuesday as Virginia attorney general, riding a wave of voter dissatisfaction with the White House to overcome the revelation that in 2022 he sent widely condemned texts embracing violence against a fellow state lawmaker.

    The former Virginia delegate defeated Republican incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares weeks after it emerged that Jones had texted a fellow delegate suggesting the then-House speaker should get “two bullets to the head.” Jones apologized for the private messages both in statements and at a debate in October.

    Jones’ victory amid the controversy could signal trouble for Republicans heading into next year’s midterm elections. He weathered the storm in part by working to shift the debate away from his character and toward President Donald Trump’s administration.

    Jones campaigned against the impact of federal encroachment on Virginia since Trump took office in January — shrinking the civil service, levying tariffs and a Republican federal tax cut bill that Democrats argued imperiled the state’s health care system.

    The win could soon add Virginia to the roster of Democratic-led states legally challenging actions taken by Trump.

    A descendant of slaves, Jones is set to become the first Black attorney general in the former capital of the Confederacy. His victory is a landmark moment for Black Virginians in a statewide contest that was already poised to make history, with voters choosing between two women to elect the state’s first female governor.

    Miyares faced a difficult political climate in his bid for reelection. Ever since Democrat Jimmy Carter won the White House in 1976, every time a new president has been elected, Virginia has voted in a governor the following year from the opposite party.

    And while the state has had split tickets before — meaning voters backed candidates for statewide offices from a party that differs from the elected governor — they haven’t picked an attorney general from the opposite party in 20 years.

    Republicans had hoped to persuade swing voters to reelect Miyares but faced challenging headwinds in a state with tens of thousands of federal employees.

    Outrage over Jones’ text messages is unlikely to fade once Jones is sworn into office. Republicans, including Trump and Miyares, described his conduct from three years ago as disqualifying him from the attorney general’s position in 2025.

    Even Democrats Abigail Spanberger and Ghazala Hashmi, the party’s candidates for governor and lieutenant governor Tuesday, had stayed silent about whether Jones still had their endorsements. Jones did, however, speak at a Spanberger campaign rally on Saturday.

    Jones comes from a family of Hampton Roads politicians and civil rights pioneers. His father was also a Virginia delegate, and his grandfather was the first Black member of the Norfolk School Board. Jones previously ran for attorney general in 2021 but lost the primary to then-incumbent Mark Herring.

    Olivia Diaz is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

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  • Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Mayoral Election 2025 In Historic Victory

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    Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist who went from near obscurity to a stunning win in the New York City mayoral Democratic primary over former governor Andrew Cuomo, has done it again: Mamdani was voted in as New York City’s new mayor on Tuesday.

    The win was projected by both the Associated Press and NBC less than an hour after polls in the city closed. Mamdani spoke before a packed victory party shortly after 11 p.m. “Thank you to the next generation of New Yorkers who refused to accept that the promise of a better future was a relic of the past,” Mamdani said. He also acknowledged his opponents, namely Cuomo. “I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, and let tonight be the final time I utter his name,” Mamdani said. And he used the stage to speak directly to the president. “Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I’ve got four words for you: turn the volume up,” Mamdani said to raucous applause.

    By Election Day, all eyes were on the race in America’s most populous city as an electoral proxy for Donald Trump’s second stint in the White House. There was Mamdani, the upstart, a Ugandan-born political organizer turned state assemblyman representing the Astoria neighborhood in Queens since 2021, the anointed Democratic candidate. Republican Curtis Sliwa consistently polled last in the race, though he found a slice of TikTok virality with a subset of Gen Z voters. And then there was Cuomo, soundly defeated in the primary but keeping himself on the ticket anyway running as an independent, receiving a last-minute cash infusion of $1.5 million from former mayor Mike Bloomberg on Halloween, days before voters headed to the polls.

    Incumbent Eric Adams, who has his place in the history books for being the first sitting New York City mayor to be indicted on corruption charges including fraud, bribery, and illegal campaign donations, halted his re-election campaign and dropped out of the race in late September. (Adams has denied wrongdoing.) Many of his former supporters, a notable segment of whom belong to an ultra-wealthy tax bracket, shifted their allegiances to Cuomo after Adams’ defection, and Adams himself endorsed Cuomo in late October, despite having called him “a snake and a liar” in September. (Adams shrugged off the comment when asked about it after his endorsement: “Brothers fight,” he said by way of explanation.)

    Still, Mamdani didn’t forget, telling Vanity Fair‘s James Pogue via text in the days following Adams stepping back from the race that he had a message to voters: “I’d say listen to what Eric Adams said: ‘Andrew Cuomo is a liar and a snake.’”

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  • Election Day marked by bomb threats in NJ, Trump warnings for Calif.

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    Bomb threats to New Jersey polling stations, a voter roll mishap in Pennsylvania potentially affecting thousands of voters and warnings by President Donald Trump against California’s mail balloting system marked the final day of voting in an off-year election with several nationally prominent races.

    Voting otherwise appeared to go smoothly Tuesday across the U.S. as voters cast ballots in the first significant election since Trump won the White House for a second time.


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  • Bettencourt wins 8th term; Hochman, Corriveau join at-large councilors

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    PEABODY — Ted Bettencourt won his eighth consecutive term as the city’s mayor in Tuesday’s race against local business owner Rochelle Agneta.

    Bettencourt, 52, won with 6,497 votes, while Agneta, the 58-year-old owner of Salon CC in Peabody, received 1,510 votes, according to unofficial results.


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  • 5 newcomers elected to Salem City Council

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    SALEM — Voters elected several newcomers to the City Council during Tuesday’s municipal election.






    Erin Turowski




    In Ward 1, challenger Erin Turowski defeated incumbent Cynthia Jerzylo, receiving 622, or 59.4% of the votes cast in the election compared to Jerzylo’s 426 votes, according to unofficial results.


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    Jason Sydoriak




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    Timothy Flynn


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    Lydia King




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    Katelyn Holappa




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    Yamily Byas




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  • Cahill defeats Sweeney in Beverly mayor’s race

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    BEVERLY — Six-term Mayor Mike Cahill will have a seventh, Beverly voters determined at the polls Tuesday.

    Cahill, 63, was victorious over current City Councilor at-Large Brendan Sweeney, 31. Cahill took 6,228 votes, or 59.2% of the race’s 10,530 votes, according to unofficial results Tuesday night. Sweeney received 4,292 votes.


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  • Fayetteville’s two top elected officials vie for mayor’s office

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    In Fayetteville, five of nine city council seats are up for grabs, along with the mayor’s office. That race pits current Fayetteville Mayor Mitch Colvin against Mayor Pro Tem Kathy Keefe Jensen. 

    Election workers told WRAL that turnout was strong all day long, with lines stretching out the door at some precincts. 

    Colvin and Jensen have both held office in Fayetteville since 2013. Colvin first won the mayor’s office in 2017. He announced in June he wouldn’t seek reelection, before reversing course a month later. 

    With about 30% of the vote counted, Colvin had a 55% to 42% edge on Jensen.

    Voters who backed Colvin told WRAL they liked his experience, and the direction he’s taken Fayetteville in over the last few years. 

    “I like the fact that the city seems to be moving in a progressive manner,” said Keith Morrow, a longtime Fayetteville resident and veteran, originally from Virginia. “He’s looking forward and not behind.” 

    “His priorities resonated more with me and my family,” said Sontiel Torrence. “Community engagement for sure, that’s a big thing. Youth involvement. That’s very important as a father with up and coming children.” 

    Voters who favored Jensen told WRAL they liked her business experience, and want to see Fayetteville go in a new direction. 

    “I know we need a change,” said Dwight Lucas, a 45-year Fayetteville resident. “I look up at Fuquay Varina, the Apex area, the Raleigh area, I see a lot of business, a lot of industry going up. And the only thing going on in Fayetteville is 7/11s being built.” 

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  • Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell Faces a Hard Reelection Fight Against Progressive Activist Katie Wilson

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    SEATTLE (AP) — Democratic Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell faces a tough reelection fight against progressive activist Katie Wilson as voters in the liberal city recoil from President Donald Trump’s second term and question whether the incumbent has done enough to address public safety, homelessness and affordability.

    Harrell, an attorney who previously served three terms on the City Council, was elected mayor in 2021 following the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice protests over George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police.

    With crime falling, more police being hired, less visible drug use and many homeless encampments removed from city parks, the business-backed Harrell seemed likely to cruise to re-election at this time last year. He’s been endorsed by Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson, Attorney General Nick Brown and former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

    But Trump’s return to office has helped reawaken Seattle’s progressive voters. The lesser-known Wilson, a democratic socialist running a campaign that echoes some of the themes of progressive mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in New York, trounced Harrell by nearly 10 percentage points in the August primary.

    “Voters in places like Seattle are frustrated with the status quo, particularly in the context of Trump’s attacks on blue cities,” said Sandeep Kaushik, a Seattle political consultant who is not involved in the race. “They’re kind of moving back into their progressive bunker and are much more inclined to say, ‘Yeah, we should go our own way with our own bold progressive solutions.’ That all that plays into Katie’s hands.”

    Wilson, 43, studied at Oxford College but did not graduate. She founded the small nonprofit Transit Riders Union in 2011 and has led campaigns for better public transportation, higher minimum wages, stronger renter protections and more affordable housing. She herself is a renter, living in a one-bedroom apartment in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, and says that has shaped her understanding of Seattle’s affordability crisis.

    Wilson has criticized Harrell as doing too little to provide more shelter and said his encampment sweeps have been cosmetic, merely pushing unhoused people around the city. Wilson also paints him as a city hall fixture who bears responsibility for the status quo.

    She has been endorsed by several Democratic organizations as well as by U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the former chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

    Harrell, 67, played on the Rose Bowl champion University of Washington football team in 1978 before going to law school. His father, who was Black, came to Seattle from the segregated Jim Crow South, and his mother, a Japanese American, was incarcerated at an internment camp in Minidoka, Idaho, during World War II after officials seized her family’s Seattle flower shop — experiences that fostered his understanding of the importance of civil rights and inclusivity.

    Harrell has said Wilson, who has no traditional management experience, isn’t ready to lead a city with more than 13,000 employees and a budget of nearly $9 billion. He also has criticized her for supporting efforts to slash the city’s police budget amid the 2020 racial justice protests.

    Wilson has said that proposal was based on some fundamental misunderstandings and that she since has learned a lot about how the police department works. She says she supports having a department that is adequately staffed, responsive and accountable to the community.

    Both Harrell and Wilson have touted plans for affordable housing, combatting crime and attempting to Trump-proof the city, which receives about $150 million a year in federal funding. Both want to protect Seattle’s sanctuary city status.

    Wilson has proposed a city-level capital gains tax to help offset federal funding the city might lose and to pay for housing; Harrell says that’s ineffective because a city capital gains tax could easily be avoided by those who would be required to pay it.

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  • Election Day 2025 driven by economic worries; key takeaways

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    Democrats dominated the first major Election Day since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

    And while a debate about the future of the Democratic Party may have only just begun, there are signs that the economy — specifically, Trump’s inability to deliver the economic turnaround he promised last fall — may be a real problem for Trump’s GOP heading into next year’s higher-stakes midterm elections.

    Democrats on Tuesday won governor’s races in Virginia and New Jersey, the only states electing new chief executives this year. They also swept a trio of state Supreme Court contests in swing-state Pennsylvania and ballots measures from Colorado to Maine.

    Trump was largely absent from the campaign trail, but GOP candidates closely aligned themselves with the president, betting that his big win last year could provide a path to victory this time. They were wrong.

    Democrats are hoping the off-year romp offers a new winning playbook, but some caution may be warranted. Tuesday’s elections were limited to a handful of states, most of which lean blue, and the party that holds the White House typically struggles in off-year elections.

    Meanwhile, Republicans in Washington may be more excited than Democrats that a self-described democratic socialist will become New York City’s next mayor.

    Here’s some top takeaways:

    A new Democratic playbook emerges

    Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger will become Virginia’s next governor — and its first female chief executive — while Rep. Mikie Sherrill won the New Jersey governor’s office by running campaigns focused largely on the economy, public safety and health care.

    Early results showed Democrats outperforming their margins from four years ago in fast-growing suburbs, rural areas and even places with high concentrations of military voters.

    The Democrats won by actively distancing themselves from some of the Democratic Party’s far-left policies and emphasized what Spanberger described in her victory speech as “pragmatism over partisanship.”

    A growing collection of Democratic leaders believe the moderate approach holds the key to the party’s revival after the GOP won the White House and both congressional chambers last year.

    Above all, the Democrats in both states focused on rising costs such as groceries, energy and health care, which Trump has struggled to control.

    In addition to tacking to the middle on economic issues, Spanberger and Sherrill downplayed their support for progressive priorities, including LGBTQ rights and resistance against Trump’s attack on American institutions. Spanberger rarely even mentioned Trump’s name on the campaign trail.

    Both also have resumes that appealed to the middle.

    Spanberger is a former CIA case officer who spent years abroad working undercover, while Sherrill spent a decade as an active-duty helicopter pilot for the Navy before entering Congress. Both played up their public safety backgrounds as a direct response to the GOP’s attack that Democrats are soft on crime.

    It’s (still) the economy, stupid

    Trump and his Republican allies have been especially focused on immigration, crime and conservative cultural issues.

    But voters who decided Tuesday’s top elections were more concerned about the economy, jobs and costs of living. That’s according to the AP Voter Poll, an expansive survey of more than 17,000 voters in New Jersey, Virginia, California and New York City suggesting that many voters felt they can’t get ahead financially in today’s economy.

    Ironically, the same economic anxieties helped propel Trump to the White House just one year ago. Now, the economic concerns appear to be undermining his party’s political goals in 2025 — and could be more problematic for the GOP in next year’s midterm elections, which will decide the balance of power for Trump’s final two years in office.

    That’s even as Trump regularly brags about stock prices booming and boasted about leading a new renaissance of American manufacturing.

    About half of Virginia voters said the economy was the most important issue facing their state while most New Jersey voters said either taxes or the economy were the top issue in their state. Just over half of New York City voters said cost of living was their top concern.

    It was unclear whether kitchen table concerns weighing so heavily on voters might help break the impasse that has prompted the government shutdown, which has spanned more than a month.

    A referendum on Trump

    This was the first election since Trump’s return to the presidency and voters rejected candidates and causes aligned with his Republican Party from Virginia and Pennsylvania to Maine and New Jersey. It was, in fact, difficult to point to any significant victory for Trump’s party.

    They also expressed strong feelings about the direction of the country under his leadership.

    About 6 in 10 voters in Virginia and New Jersey said they are “angry” or “dissatisfied” with the way things are going in the country today, according to the AP Voter Poll. Just one-third said they are “enthusiastic” or “satisfied.”

    In a sign of the extent of the GOP’s struggles, Republicans lost the Virginia attorney general’s race to Democrat Jay Jones, who was forced to apologize after text messages surfaced weeks before Election Day in which he depicted the murder of political opponents.

    Fearing a bad night, Trump tried to distance himself from the election results.

    The president endorsed Ciattarelli in New Jersey but held only a pair of tele-town halls on his behalf, including one Monday night. Trump also did a Monday night tele-town hall for Virginia Republican candidates, but he focused mostly in favor of the GOP candidate for attorney general, who also lost.

    Despite Trump’s distance, his policies — including his “big, beautiful” budget bill and his massive cuts to the federal workforce — played a central role in Virginia, New Jersey and even New York City’s mayoral contest. And the Republicans in each refused to distance themselves from the president or his agenda.

    The results left the president ducking blame.

    “TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,” according to pollsters, he posted on his social media account.

    Trump planned to have breakfast Wednesday at the White House with Senate Republicans who have so far opposed his calls to end the shutdown by abandoning the legislative filibuster, the 60-vote minimum needed to pass most major legislation though the Senate.

    A new star for Democrats (and Republicans) in New York City

    Moderates won in Virginia and New Jersey. But it was a self-described democratic socialist who cruised to victory in New York City.

    Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state legislator who backs radical changes to address economic inequality, will serve as the next mayor of the nation’s largest city.

    His bold agenda and inspirational approach helped generate the largest turnout in a New York City mayoral race in at least three decades. It also spooked some business leaders and voices in the Jewish community, who otherwise support Democrats but oppose some of Mamdani’s past statements about personal wealth accumulation and Israel.

    Trump, who actually endorsed Mamdani’s independent opponent, former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, falsely called Mamdani a communist on the eve of the election.

    Some Republicans in Washington were quietly rooting for a Mamdani victory. Even before his win was final, Republican campaign committees launched attack ads against more than a dozen vulnerable House Democrats in New York and New Jersey linking them to Mamdani and his far-left politics.

    The ad campaign is expected to extend to Democrats across the country ahead of next year’s midterms.

    More Democratic wins

    The Democratic successes extended beyond Virginia, New Jersey and New York.

    In Pennsylvania, Democrats swept all three elections for state supreme court justices. The wins could have implications for key cases involving redistricting and balloting for midterm elections — and the 2028 presidential race — in the nation’s most populous swing state.

    Conservative causes struggled on ballot questions in other states as well.

    Maine voters defeated a measure that would have mandated showing an ID at the polls while approving a “red flag” rule meant to make it easier for family members to petition a court to restrict a potentially dangerous person’s access to guns.

    Colorado approved raising taxes on people earning more than $300,000 to fund school meal programs and food assistance for low-income state residents.

    And in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom, frequently mentioned as a 2028 presidential hopeful, led a triumphant charge to redraw congressional maps to give Democrats as many as five more House seats in upcoming elections.

    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. For the new maps to count in 2026, however, Californians had to vote on a yes-or-no ballot question known as Proposition 50. It was easily approved.

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  • See updated California Prop 50 election results

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    What to Know

    • Prop 50 was the only question before voters in Tuesday’s California special election.
    • The measure asked the state’s 23 million registered voters whether they authorize temporary changes to congressional district maps approved by state lawmakers.
    • Congressional district maps are usually redrawn once a decade after each census and by an independent voter-approved redistricting commission in California.
    • Prop 50 is a response led by Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrats to redistricting in Texas that came at the urging of President Trump in an effort to gain Republican seats in the U.S. House.
    • Prop 50 could open a pathway to flip up to five of 435 U.S. House seats in favor of Democrats.

    California voters were asked to decide whether to reshape congressional districts in a move by leaders in the nation’s most populous state that could flip some House seats from Republican to Democratic control.

    Prop 50, named for the 50 states and the only question on ballot in the Tuesday statewide special election, was placed before the California’s 23 million registered voters as a counter to redistricting in Texas at the urging of President Trump that gives more seats to Republicans. The California measure, placed on the ballot by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature, was a yes-or-no question that asks voters whether they authorize temporary changes to congressional district maps already approved by state lawmakers.

    Vote centers closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday. See updated results below.

    The changes could flip as many as five of 435 U.S. House seats in favor of Democrats.

    The new congressional district maps approved by lawmakers in August would be used for the next three election cycles. After the 2030 U.S. Census, California’s independent redistricting commission would resume drawing the maps.

    Will your district change?

    See how your congressional district will change if the proposed map goes into effect.

    The next election for all U.S. House seats is 2026. Republicans have a slim 219-213 margin with three vacancies.

    Voting districts are typically redrawn just once a decade after each census, but a national battle erupted over partisan gerrymandering this year in Texas when the Republican-controlled state adopted a new map in August that could flip five Democratic-leaning U.S. House seats. California responded in an effort led by Gov. Newsom. Missouri and North Carolina both adopted new maps and other states may soon follow.

    California Democrats already hold 43 of the state’s 52 congressional seats. That number could jump to 48, if Prop 50 is approved and voters favor the Democratic candidates in those redrawn districts.

    There are 10.3 million registered Democrats and 5.8 million registered Republicans in California, according to the Secretary of State. About 5.2 million voters were not registered with any party.

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  • Photos of the First General Election Since Trump’s Return

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    Millions of voters are casting ballots Tuesday in U.S. state and local elections. The biggest contests are in Virginia and New Jersey, the only states electing governors this year. Read what to watch for on Election Day.

    This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

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  • In Connecticut, Finding Candidates to Run for Local Office Is Getting Harder

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    The Vernon Democratic Town Committee was scrambling to find a candidate to challenge the town’s well liked, six-term Republican mayor, Daniel Champagne. It was June, just five months until this year’s municipal election, and no one had stepped forward.

    “It was like pulling teeth to fill out the slate,” said state Rep. Kevin Brown, D-Vernon. “We were going through a Rolodex of if there’s anybody who knows anybody who would run for mayor.”

    With the clock ticking down to November, the committee leaders approached Jeremy Geller, a retiree who serves on the town’s Conservation Commission. Geller, 67, had never dreamed of entering politics. He was enjoying his retirement, biking Connecticut’s rail trails and tending to his garden while keeping an eye on local issues.

    When he was first asked, he was reluctant. Geller enjoyed being an anonymous person. And rising political violence in the news worried him, especially the assassination of Minnesota Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband.

    “There’s such vituperation and tendency even to political violence,” Geller said. “I wondered, well, what do I lose by running? I mean, do I lose my safety?”

    For party leaders in towns and cities around Connecticut — and across the country — finding candidates to run for local offices is getting harder.

    There are 39 uncontested races for mayor or first selectman in Tuesday’s municipal elections in Connecticut. Twenty-four Republicans and 15 Democrats are running unopposed.

    Nationally, 70% of elections were uncontested in 2024, according to a Ballotpedia analysis that included all levels of government except the presidency. Connecticut was on par with that average, with 71% of all races unopposed.

    Connecticut political organizers, state officials and researchers say a more hostile national political climate and declining civic engagement — on top of the substantial time commitment required of local officials — have discouraged many potential candidates from seeking office.

    Connecticut Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas has sought to address the issue through an educational campaign. Last week, her office launched an online platform to teach residents about how to engage with local politics and policy. The site includes resources about how to run for office.

    Joseph Thornton, a spokesman for the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, said he visited ten towns over the past six weeks and every one of them mentioned a problem with candidate recruitment. He said one town official told him she’d like to leave her post but there was no one available to fill it, and she didn’t want to put the town in that position.

    “You factor in … all the pressures of the job, late nights 24/7, and you throw in that people are just going to yell and scream at you no matter what you do, it’s not very attractive,” Thornton said.

    Holding a public office is no easy job, and the political climate in recent years has added challenges.

    On Connecticut town Facebook pages, commenters call local leaders corrupt, take aim at them with expletives and assign uncharitable nicknames.

    “Many municipal officials feel like they’re under attack in the community,” said Elizabeth Gara, executive director of the Connecticut Council of Small Towns. “And it’s not just an issue in local politics, it’s an issue across the nation.”

    More than half of local elected officials have experienced threats or harassment, according to a study of over 4,000 of these officials conducted by Princeton University’s Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) and CivicPulse.

    Other BDI research found that local politicians have been particularly on edge in the wake of highly publicized incidents of political violence — among them the assassinations of Hortman and activist Charlie Kirk and the arson of the home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.

    In the first half of 2025, there was a 9% increase in harassment of local officials compared with the same period last year, according to the study, which identified nearly 300 incidents of harassment in the first half of this year.

    Nancy DiNardo, former chair of the Connecticut Democratic party from 2005 to 2015, said that during her tenure, residents were generally civil toward people running for office because they often knew them personally or through local communities.

    That may be less of an inhibitor now.

    “We’re seeing it here in Connecticut: a lot of trolling on social media, a lot of hostile, nasty comments on social media, a lot of stalking when you’re out campaigning,” said Patricia Russo, executive director of The Campaign School at Yale University, a nonpartisan organization that trains women to run for office. For some people who might consider running for office, “that is definitely a deterrent,” Russo said.

    Benjamin Proto, chair of the Connecticut Republican party, said he first observed online vitriol toward candidates as Facebook was becoming more popular, and he has seen it grow alongside the expansion of social media.

    “People will go after spouses, they’ll go after children,” Proto said. “And people look at that (and think), ‘I don’t want to put my family through that. It’s not worth the time, it’s not worth the effort, it’s not worth the BS that I have to put up with to sit on the Planning and Zoning Commission.’”

    State Sen. Matt Lesser, D-Middletown, has experienced repeated online threats of violence. State Senate Minority Leader Stephen Harding, R-Brookfield, and Attorney General William Tong have both been threatened with bombs at their homes.

    Windsor Mayor Nuchette Black-Burke said it has been difficult to find people willing to fill Board of Education and constable positions in her town.

    She said she believes political conflicts should not become personal. “Folks that don’t understand that we can disagree on a point, but we can still go down to the local eatery and have a cup of coffee,” Black-Burke said.

    Holding office can also be time-consuming, another aspect that keeps people from running.

    “Serving as first selectman or mayor is a 24/7 position at this point,” Gara said.

    State and federal regulations heap responsibilities on municipal officials, she said. For example, stormwater management requires record keeping and inspections — and compliance takes time and resources, Gara said.

    People are busy, she added. In many families, both parents work full time and children are enrolled in several extracurriculars.

    Because Connecticut operates without county governments, each town has to manage all of its own resources, from police to schools to the fire department. As communities grow and governments take on more responsibilities, managing it all becomes a bigger job, and elected officials don’t usually have large staffs, Proto said.

    “You began to see government become more complicated, government becoming more expensive, government providing more services at all levels that had to be managed,” he said.

    CCM’s Thornton said more state financial support could help overburdened local leaders comply with changing state regulations, and thereby make the positions more attractive.

    Holding public office can sometimes feel like thankless work, especially as engagement in local civic matters seems to be declining.

    Windsor’s Black-Burke said she believes public service used to carry respect in a way it no longer does. But she tells potential candidates that elected office is about something more. “It’s really about building a legacy, building change, trying to be a difference in your community,” she said.

    Maresa Strano, deputy director of the political reform program at left-leaning think tank New America, said it matters who parties recruit for office, because that can affect civic engagement.

    State party chairs tend to recruit fewer women and minorities because they’re seen as less electable, she said. And that bias contributes to the shortage of candidates because “there are just fewer of those older, pillar-of-the-community white guys who have a dynasty in that town,” she said.

    “A lot of those people are retiring or dying, and who’s going to take over?” Strano said.

    State politicians say that investing in civics education is important to get more people to take part in elections.

    “What I’ve learned is that people care deeply about their communities and they want to become more involved, but they don’t know where or how to get started,” Secretary of State Thomas said at an Oct. 27 press conference about the new online educational platform her office launched, Power of Civics.

    State Rep. Brown, of Vernon, said a lot of people simply don’t know these local leadership positions exist. Local governance is not always taught, and community members may never interact with their officials or learn what they do, he said.

    DiNardo, the former state Democratic party chair, said personal outreach encouraging people to run is crucial. Sometimes it’s as simple as explaining that the effort of campaigning can be more time-consuming than holding the office itself, she said. It all comes down to that kind of effort, she added, and town committees often don’t expend energy on elections that seem out of reach.

    Proto, the Republican party chair, said sometimes unopposed elections simply mean that residents generally approve of the incumbent, and any challenger may not have much of a chance.

    Strano said she sees all the uncontested races in Connecticut as a good way for third parties and young people to get a foothold in politics.

    “I think that these third parties would see those uncontested races or vacancies as opportunities to run their own candidates,” Strano said. “Seems like a really missed opportunity on their part.”

    She added that these races are a good way for young people to get involved and provide an opportunity to change the makeup and priorities of local government.

    Geller, the Vernon retiree, entered his town’s race for mayor in July. He’s a long-shot challenger, but he has focused his campaign on issues he’s passionate about, like health care and housing. And on the trail, Geller said he’s found a positive reception to door-knocking and hasn’t experienced any of the attacks he feared.

    Uncontested elections, even for down-ballot races in the smallest towns, put “power in the hands of the few,” said Brown.

    “They say the world is controlled by people who show up,” he said.

    This story was originally published by CT Mirror and distributed through a partnership with The Associated Press.

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  • Bay Area and California election results

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    A statewide special election will be held Tuesday to decide Proposition 50, a measure that would authorize temporary changes to California congressional district maps in response to Texas redistricting efforts.

    There are other measures and races on the ballot in some Bay Area counties, including in Fairfax in Marin County where voters will decide whether to recall elected officials there, and in Santa Clara County where voters will consider a sales tax and choose a new county assessor.

    County elections office began mailing ballots on Oct. 6, and vote-by-mail ballots can be returned by mail, at a drop-off location, or a county elections office.

    Vote-by-mail ballots must be postmarked on or before the Nov. 4 Election Day and received by Nov. 12.

    A list of county election offices can be found at sos.ca.gov.

    California Proposition 50 election results

    Check back after polls close for updates on Proposition 50.

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    Election results for the recall of Fairfax Councilmembers Lisel Blash and Stephanie Hellman will be available after polls close.

    Results for Sausalito’s Measure J (Housing for 12 city commercial districts) and Measure K (MLK local control measure) will trickle in after polls close.

    We will also have results for Measure I (Petaluma Joint Union High School District).

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    Results for Measure A (Santa Clara Valley healthcare funding) and the county assessor race will be available after polls close.

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    Election results for Measure I (Petaluma Joint Union High School District) will be available after polls close.

    We’ll also be tracking results for the Timber Cove County Water District race.

    California voters are being asked to let politicians redraw district lines statewide to give Democrats an edge in Congress. Here’s how it would work.

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  • It’s Been a Year Since Trump Was Elected. Democrats Still Don’t Get the Internet

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    After losing big in 2024, Democrats promised a digital reckoning.

    But 12 months out from that devastating slate of losses, Democratic digital programs are still plagued by the same issues that doomed them last year. Despite millions of dollars in influencer investments and “lessons learned” memos, party insiders say Democrats are still stuck running social media programs that strive for authenticity, but often clash with the party’s unrelenting desire to maintain control.

    “I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why we are still so rigid and moderating everything when we have nothing to lose for the first time,” says one Democratic digital strategist, who requested anonymity to speak candidly. “All of the threats of fascism and right wing takeover. It’s all here.”

    This aversion to risk has made it difficult for Democrats to innovate. In June, the Democratic National Committee launched a new YouTube show called the Daily Blueprint. In a statement, DNC chair Ken Martin said that the show—which runs news headlines and interviews with party officials in an attempt to be MSNBC-lite—“cements our commitment to meet this moment and innovate the ways we get our message across a new media landscape.”

    The show, hosted by DNC deputy communications director Hannah Muldavin, has brought in only around 16,000 views total across more than 100 episodes since its launch.

    The DNC did not respond to a request for comment.

    To some Democratic strategists, the Daily Blueprint is emblematic of how the party continues promoting its least effective digital communicators. Since the government shut down earlier this month, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has hosted a string of highly-produced videos that have barely registered outside of the Washington, DC ecosystem. “If you are not willing to take swings or throw shit against the wall in this moment, then when are you going to do that?” says Ravi Mangla, the national press secretary for the Working Families Party, a small progressive party already critical of the Democratic National Committee. (Schumer’s Senate office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

    Younger Democratic operatives say the issue stems from a broader culture of gatekeeping not just who is allowed to speak on behalf of the party, but what the content coming out of official channels looks like. The people approving content are “not young people and they’re not posters,” says Organizermemes, a creator and digital strategist. “They can’t explain why things [online] went well. Their ‘theory of mind’ is often fundamentally wrong because they don’t engage with the actual doing of it.”

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  • The GOP Civil War Over Nick Fuentes Has Just Begun

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    Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist known for his deeply antisemitic, racist, and misogynist worldview, just might be tearing the Republican party apart.

    The schism was triggered last Tuesday when former Fox News host Tucker Carlson released an in-depth interview with Fuentes, the leader of the so-called America First movement who has denied the Holocaust, praised Hitler, and shared deeply misogynistic views.

    During the interview, Fuentes waxed antisemitic about the threat apparently posed by “organized Jewry” in America, while Carlson slammed figures like Senator Ted Cruz and former president George W. Bush as being “Christian Zionists” who have been ”seized by this brain virus.” Carlson was criticized by, among others, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee for giving Fuentes a platform, and the argument kicked into overdrive after Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, a high-profile conservative think tank, condemned those attacking Carlson as a “venomous coalition.”

    “Tucker Carlson remains and always will be a close friend of the Heritage Foundation,” Roberts said in a video posted to X on Thursday.

    Roberts’ comments, which were viewed by many as a tacit approval of Fuentes’ antisemitic worldview, triggered a massive split on the right, with everyone from prominent podcasters and influencers to senators and other lawmakers weighing in to attack or defend Roberts and Carlson.

    The debate continued to rage over the weekend as many claimed the situation was a reflection of a broader concern about a perceived rise in antisemitism within the MAGA movement.

    “In the last six months, I’ve seen more antisemitism on the right than I have in my entire life,” Cruz told the Republican Jewish Coalition conference in Las Vegas last Thursday, hours after Roberts’ video was released. “If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very, very cool and that their mission is to combat and defeat global Jewry, and you say nothing, then you’re a coward and you are complicit in that evil.”

    Senator Mitch McConnell, quoting Roberts’ video, wrote on X that conservatives are not obliged “to carry water for antisemites and apologists for America-hating autocrats.”

    “My mother was a Heritage board member for 40 years,” John Podhoretz, a conservative political commentator, wrote on X, quoting Roberts’ post. “You have befouled her, you rancid wretch of an amoeba.” Podhoretz deleted the post on Monday.

    A number of prominent Republicans, however, came out in support of Roberts.

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  • What’s on the ballot in the first general election since Donald Trump became president

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    WASHINGTON — One year after Donald Trump retook the White House and set into motion a dramatic expansion of executive power, the Republican president figures prominently in state and local elections being held Tuesday.

    The results of those contests — the first general election of Trump’s second term — will be heralded by the victors as either a major repudiation or resounding stamp of approval of his second-term agenda. That’s especially true in high-profile races for Virginia and New Jersey governor, New York City mayor and a California proposition to redraw its congressional district boundaries.

    More than half of the states will hold contests on Tuesday. Here’s a look at some of the major statewide and local races on the ballot:

    In New Jersey, Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli are the nominees to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy. Sherrill is a four-term U.S. representative and former Navy helicopter pilot. Ciattarelli is a former state Assemblyman backed by Trump. In 2021, Ciattarelli came within about 3 percentage points of toppling Murphy.

    In Virginia, Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Democratic former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger look to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. While Spanberger has made some efforts to focus on topics other than Trump in stump speeches, the president remained a major topic of conversation throughout the campaign, from comments Earle-Sears made about him in 2022 to some of his more polarizing policies, such as the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill tax and spending cut measure and the widespread dismissal of federal workers, many of whom live in northern Virginia.

    Trump was scheduled to participate in telephone rallies for the candidates on Monday night.

    As the only gubernatorial races held in the year following a presidential election, the contests have long served as the first major test of voter sentiment toward the party holding the White House. In every race for governor since 1973, one or both states have elected a governor from a party different than that of the sitting president.

    The race to lead the nation’s largest city features Democratic state legislator Zohran Mamdani, independent candidate and former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa.

    Mamdani’s comfortable victory over Cuomo in the June primary generated excitement from the party’s more progressive wing and apprehension among the party establishment. Party leaders like Gov. Kathy Hochul and U.S. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries eventually endorsed the self-described democratic socialist months after he won the nomination.

    The winner will replace outgoing Mayor Eric Adams, who initially sought renomination as a Democrat. After losing the primary Adams opted to run as an independent, but dropped out of the race in September and eventually endorsed Cuomo. In February, the Trump Justice Department asked a court to drop corruption charges against Adams because the case impeded Trump’s “ immigration objectives.” Trump later said he’d like to see both Adams and Sliwa drop out of the race in an effort to defeat Mamdani.

    California voters will decide a statewide ballot measure that would enact a new congressional map that could flip as many as five Republican-held U.S. House seats to Democratic control.

    Proposition 50, championed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, is in response to a new Texas map that state Republicans enacted in August as part of Trump’s efforts to keep the U.S. House under Republican control in the 2026 midterms. The Texas plan, which could help Republicans flip five Democratic-held U.S. House seats, has sparked an escalating gerrymandering arms race among states to pass new maps outside of the regular once-a-decade schedule.

    Control of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will be at stake when voters cast Yes or No votes on whether to retain three justices from the high court’s 5-2 Democratic majority.

    Partisan control of the court could have major implications for the 2028 presidential race, since justices might be asked to rule on election disputes, as they did in 2020. Spending on Tuesday’s contests is on track to exceed $15 million as Republicans have campaigned to end the majority and Democrats have responded.

    If all three justices are ousted, a deadlock in the confirmation process to replace them could result in a court tied at 2-2. An election to fill any vacant seats for full 10-year terms would be held in 2027.

    VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL: Republican incumbent Jason Miyares seeks a second term against Democrat Jay Jones. Much of the fall campaign has focused on text messages suggesting violence against political rivals that Jones sent in 2022.

    TEXAS-18: Sixteen candidates hope to fill a vacant congressional seat previously held by the late Democratic U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner.

    STATE LEGISLATURES: Control of the Minnesota Senate and Virginia House of Delegates is at stake, while New Jersey Democrats defend their 52-28 General Assembly majority.

    BALLOT MEASURES: Maine voters will decide statewide questions on voting and a “red flag” law aimed at preventing gun violence. Texas’ 17 ballot measures include constitutional amendments on parental rights and limiting voting to U.S. citizens. Colorado and Washington also have statewide measures on the ballot.

    MAYORS: Detroit, Pittsburgh, Jersey City and Buffalo will elect new mayors, while incumbents in Atlanta, Minneapolis and Cincinnati seek another term.

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  • California Voters Take up Democrats’ Push for New Congressional Maps That Could Shape House Control

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    LOS ANGELES (AP) — The national battle to control the U.S. House shifts to California on Tuesday as voters consider a Democratic proposal that could erase as many as five Republican districts and blunt President Donald Trump’s moves to safeguard his party’s lock on Washington power.

    The outcome will reverberate into next year’s midterm elections and beyond, with Democrats hoping a victory will set the stage for the party to regain control of the House in 2026. A shift in the majority would imperil Trump’s agenda for the remainder of his term at a time of deep partisan divisions over immigration, health care and the future direction of the nation.

    “God help us if we lose in California,” Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom says.

    Democrats need to gain just three seats in the 2026 elections to take control of the House.

    Heavily Democratic California and its 52 congressional districts represent by far the Democrats’ best opportunity in an unprecedented state-by-state redistricting battle, which started when Texas Republicans heeded Trump’s demand that they redraw their boundaries to help the GOP retain its House majority. Democrats hold 43 of the state’s seats and hope to boost that to 48.

    Trump is fighting not just the Democrats but history. Midterm elections typically punish the party in the White House, but four GOP-led states so far have adopted new district maps to pack more Republican voters into key districts.


    Measure supported by Newsom, Obama

    California’s Proposition 50 asks voters to suspend House maps drawn by an independent commission and replace them with rejiggered districts adopted by the Democratic-controlled Legislature. Those new districts would be in place for the 2026, 2028 and 2030 elections.

    The recast districts aim to dilute Republican voters’ power, in one case by uniting rural, conservative-leaning parts of far northern California with Marin County, a famously liberal coastal stronghold across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.

    The measure has been spearheaded by Newsom, who has thrown the weight of his political operation behind it in a major test of his mettle ahead of a potential 2028 presidential campaign. Former President Barack Obama has urged voters to pass it as well.

    Newsom has sought to nationalize the campaign, depicting the proposal as a counterweight to all things Trump.

    “Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to rig the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years,” Obama says in one ad. “You can stop Republicans in their tracks.”

    Critics say two wrongs don’t make a right. They urge Californians to reject what they call a Democratic power grab, even if they have misgivings about Trump’s moves in Republican-led states.

    Among the most prominent critics is Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie star and former Republican governor who pushed for the creation of the independent commission, which voters approved in 2008 and 2010. It makes no sense to fight Trump by becoming him, Schwarzenegger said in September, arguing that the proposal would “take the power away from the people.”

    After an early burst of TV advertising, opponents of the plan have struggled to raise cash in a state with some of the nation’s most expensive media markets. Data compiled by advertising tracker AdImpact last week showed Democrats and other supporters with over $5 million in ad buys booked on broadcast TV, cable and radio. But opponents had virtually no time reserved, though the data didn’t include some popular streaming services like Hulu and YouTube or mail advertising.

    Total spending on broadcast and cable ads topped $100 million, with more than two-thirds of it coming from supporters. Newsom told people to stop donating in the race’s final weeks.

    Trump, who overwhelmingly lost California in his three presidential campaigns, largely stayed out of the fray. A week before the election, he urged voters in a social media post not to vote early or by mail — messaging that conflicts with that of top Republicans in the state who urged people to get their ballots in as soon as possible.


    The national House map is in flux

    Democrats hope to pick up as many as five seats in California if voters approve the new boundaries, offsetting the five that Republicans hope to pick up through their new Texas maps. Republicans also expect to gain one seat each from new maps in Missouri and North Carolina, and potentially two more in Ohio.

    Congressional district boundaries are typically redrawn every 10 years to reflect population shifts documented in the census. Mid-decade redistricting is unusual, absent a court order finding fault with the maps in place.

    Five other GOP-led states are also considering new maps: Kansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana and Nebraska.

    On the Democratic side, Illinois, Maryland, New York and Virginia have proposals to redraw maps, but major hurdles remain.

    A court has ordered new boundaries be drawn in Utah, where all four House districts are represented by Republicans, but it remains to be seen if the state will approve a map that makes any of them winnable for Democrats.

    Cooper reported from Phoenix and Nguyen from Sacramento, California.

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  • Voter ID measure violates California law, appeals court says

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    SANTA ANA, Calif. — A California appeals court ruled Monday that a Huntington Beach measure requiring voter identification at the polls violates state law.

    The Fourth District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana determined that the measure passed by voters in the seaside city of 200,000 people should be struck down because it conflicts with state election law, said Lee Fink, a lawyer for Huntington Beach resident Mark Bixby, who challenged the city’s measure. California Attorney General Rob Bonta also sued over the Huntington Beach law contending it would disenfranchise voters.

    “Voting is the fundamental right from which all other rights flow, and no matter where threats to that right come from — whether from Washington D.C. or from within California — we will continue holding the line,” Bonta said in a statement. “California’s elections are already fair, safe, and secure.”

    Corbin Carson, a Huntington Beach spokesperson, said the city is reviewing the appeals court’s ruling.

    Residents of Huntington Beach voted last year to let local officials require voter identification at the polls starting in 2026. The measure also allows the city to increase in-person voting sites and monitor ballot drop boxes in local elections.

    Bonta filed a lawsuit saying the measure conflicts with state law and could make it harder for poor, non-white, young, elderly and disabled voters to cast ballots. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, then signed into state law a measure barring local governments from establishing and enforcing laws that require residents provide identification to vote in elections.

    Huntington Beach, which is known as “Surf City USA” for its scenic shoreline dotted with surfers, has a history of sparring with state officials over the measures it can take under its city charter on issues ranging from immigration to housing. The GOP is dominant in Huntington Beach with nearly 57,000 registered voters versus 41,000 Democrats, county data shows.

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