November 7, 2025

We’ve been hurtling toward the 2025 elections since Donald Trump took the oath of office. And after all the lies, disinformation and bogus polls, voters had their say on Tuesday. 

In state after state, they chose Democrats over Republicans and democracy over authoritarianism. There is no single statistic that captures the breadth and scope of the electoral sweep — but one message is clear: voters rejected Donald Trump and the sycophantic Republican Party.

Each candidate will claim their victory was the result of their own unique attributes and message. While I would never deprive them of that, victories of this magnitude are rarely the product of local dynamics or the talents of individual candidates. Waves are produced by larger forces that sweep aside the individual in favor of the universal.

In this case, that universal force was a repudiation of Republican governance over the past year. For some voters, that rejection was driven by rising costs. For others, it stemmed from the erosion of democracy. For most, it was some combination of both.

In 35 years of representing campaigns, I have learned...