Outcome is sure to impact mid-term polls in November 2026

By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON DC: This shouldn’t come as any great surprise, but the November 4, balloting for the Virginia and New Jersey governorships are being turned into referendums on the incumbent president, Donald Trump. The same is starting to happen with several other key elections as well, including the New York City mayoral contest, the Prop. 50 vote in California, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court races.

Making the two gubernatorial elections into an anti-MAGA verdict is a key push of the American Federation of Teachers, following the union’s pattern in past off-off-year elections.

In a recent e-mail exhorting members to phone bank after hours and to get out on the hustings in both New Jersey, for Rep. Mikie Sherril

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