Welcome back to episode five of The Blueprint.

We have a lot to talk about today. It's always fun when there's results. And then you can talk about the path forward in the next elections. So I am joined today by Liz Smith, who is, of course, a Democratic strategist. She's done a zillion races, has written a book about politics. And we've been talking every week. And also David Pluff, who I will still think of as my boss until probably the day I die when I'm however old I am. But he has done so many races. He obviously

was the campaign manager for Barack Obama's campaign in 2008 when he won that election. He

knows a thing or two about helping candidates who are underestimated win. And is always a good

tough talker, too. They both are. Okay, so I'm just going to get started.

We're going to have a combination of uplift and real talk during this conversation,

but I just wanted to start with sort of all of the races that were won last night because there was a lot.

So last night was an absolute ass kicking shalacking for a night by Democrats of Republicans.

So I just want to make sure everybody knows all of the races that were won.

So let me just run through a few of them.

And I wrote this down just so I don't miss anything.

Okay, so Democrat Abigail Spanberger won the race for Virginia governor by nearly 15 points.

That's a wider margin than when I went to bed last night, which is pretty significant.

The biggest margin of victory for a Democrat in 50 years, she's the first female governor of the state.

Gizalah Hashmi, who was the Democrat running for lieutenant governor,

also won. She became the first statewide elected Muslim person in the entire country. Democrat Jay Jones won the race for Attorney General, overcoming quite a texting scandal. So there was that.

Democrats won a supermajority in the Virginia state legislature setting up for the redistricting fight, which we will also talk about.

Mikey Sherrill won by 13 points in New Jersey, a much bigger margin than the polls suggested and most people thought was going to happen.

Democrats around Mamdani, of course, beat Trump endorsed Andrew Cuomo by about nine points, which is a pretty significant margin.

He got over 50 percent, also significant.

Also in New York, Democrats held onto a competitive state assembly seat in a district Trump won last year,

prop 51 by huge margins.

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