As we've been discussing, last night saw resounding wins for Democrats across several states.

But how did the winning coalition come together?

For a deeper dive into the results, I'm joined now by Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter.

Good to see you.

Hello.

Let's jump in.

Let's start with Virginia, first of all.

We saw there Democrat Abigail Spamberger with more than 57% of the vote to win over

the Republican who had about 43%.

A similar margin of victory in New Jersey where the Democrat, Mikey Sherrill, got more than

56% of the vote.

So let's just start with the elephant in the room, right?

How much did President Trump and his policies have to do with these wins?

There's no doubt that he was a central factor in these.

These are not federal races, right?

These are gubernatorial races.

And yet when you look at the margins of both of those candidates, they basically matched

Trump's disapproval rating in the state.

So for example, Mikey Cheryl in New Jersey, she won her race by 14 points.

Donald Trump's disapproval rating in the state, basically minus 14. In other words, what the

Republican candidate got in that race matched the vote, I'm sorry, matched Trump's approval rating there. So what we also see is that overall

voters were maybe not necessarily unhappy with what was happening in their state. That was true

...