Okay, if you're wondering why I'm here on a Sunday night, if you're wondering why we're calling this show The Blueprint and not the briefing and why we have this fabulous backdrop with us right now, is because there's an election in two days.

And for the past few weeks, I've been having a great time, really, doing season two of my podcast, The Blueprint, where we talk about the future of the Democratic Party and how Democrats can win again.

And we felt like with so many hugely important races on Tuesdays, we, on this Tuesday, I should say, we wanted to bring that conversation here for a special hour on MSNBC.

I am so grateful you all are here with us.

We are going to give you updates on all these races so you know exactly what to expect.

And we're going to talk about a lot of the big questions of this election, like what we should expect out of New Jersey, where Democrat Mikey Sherrill is trying to hold on right now in a state where Trump lost by less than six points a year ago.

And what we can expect out of Virginia, where the Democratic candidate for Governor Abigail Spanberg carries a big lead, but we're controversy down the ballot as a big test for the attorney general's races.

There's also legislative races in that state as well.

And just how big will the vote against Trump being California,

where Democratic voters hope to deliver their first big counterpunch

in the ongoing fight over redistricting by passing Prop 50,

by a large margin, that's what they want?

Is there anything that can stop the momentum of Democratic socialist phenom, Zoran Mamdani,

as he looks to become the youngest mayor of America's largest city in more than 100 years?

So this is the final push.

It's happening.

It's been happening.

Voters are voting.

They have been voting.

Elections are happening on Tuesday.

And as both parties make their final pitch

to voters, Republicans have the added challenge of trying to overcome the Trump factor,

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