Election results in blue states don’t predict 2026 midterms; economics will determine the outcome.
Tuesday night’s elections might have liberals popping the champagne, but the whole “Trump repudiation” narrative is way off the mark. Sure, Democrats swept big races in heavily blue states and cities — Virginia, New Jersey, New York City — and grabbed wins that the media is hyping as a Republican bloodbath. Abigail Spanberger snagged Virginia’s governorship, Mikie Sherrill took New Jersey’s, Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, won the New York City mayor’s office, and Jay Jones, who’s been openly wishing death on political foes, secured Virginia’s attorney general spot. The headlines scream doom for the GOP heading into the 2026 midterms, but that’s a shallow read.
Here’s the real scoop: these races were in deep blue territories, hardly bellwethers for the national mood or the midterms next year. Bill O’Reilly hit the nail on the head in his analysis on NewsNation, bluntly declaring that these election results have no bearing on next year’s midterms.
“This has nothing to do with the midterms. Zero,” O’Reilly said flatly when Chris Cuomo tried to connect current political controversies to next year’s races. The veteran broadcaster wasn’t being dismissive of politics; he was just pointing out that the landscape will look dramatically different by next fall.
