• High-stakes elections: Voters in multiple states are participating in the first major elections of President Donald Trump’s second term, a series of tests both for Trump and for Democrats trying to decide on how to oppose him.
• The key races: There are contests for governor in Virginia and New Jersey, as well as a mayoral race in New York City with significant implications for the future of the city and the Democratic Party. And in California, there is a race to redraw congressional district boundaries ahead of next year’s midterms. about the big contests and see when polls are closing.
• Shutdown stalemate: The elections come as the impasse in Congress reaches its 35th day, tying the record for the longest in history. In Virginia, the shutdown and Trump’s efforts to remake the government have affected hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
The New York City Board of Elections is expecting “a significant turnout today, in addition to the significant record-breaking early voting,” BOE President Fred Umane told CNN early this morning.
A total of 735,317 people voted early in the city, according to the elections board. While the pace of early voting slowed somewhat toward the end of the week relative to the 2021 election, more than four times as many New Yorkers turned out for early voting this year as they did four years ago.
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