Hi, it's Jen Saki, and this is The Blueprint.

On Sunday night, I hosted a pre-election special live on MSNBC.

We dug into what to expect in a bunch of races, including the two governor's races in New

Jersey and Virginia, Prop 50 out in California, the New York City mayoral election, state Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania, and a whole lot more.

It might be an off year, but there's a ton going on, and a lot of this news has implications for the 2026 midterms.

We wanted to make the special available to our podcast listeners so that you all have the most up-to-date news and analysis from around the country as many people head to the polls on Tuesday. I'll be back

in your feet on Wednesday with a special results episode of The Blueprint, featuring, of course, my

friend and Democratic strategist Liz Smith, but this week will be joined by Obama and Kamala Harris

advisor, David Pluff. So without further ado, our pre-election special, which originally aired on November 2nd.

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 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 where controversy down the ballot is 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

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