Some Democratic candidates, trying to turn the narrative around, have gone so far as to claim they are fighting an uphill battle - even in New York, where Democrats outnumber Republicans by two to one. governor in any of those states could block efforts to expand abortion access and other Democratic priorities. While the governor’s race in deep-red Oklahoma has become newly competitive for Democrats, and the party has a comfortable lead in divided Pennsylvania, the sour national mood has put the leadership of blue states like New York, New Mexico and Oregon within reach for Republicans. Trump is holding rallies in places that are safe for his party, like Iowa and Texas, or where he is aiming to prop up Senate candidates, as in Pennsylvania and Ohio. President Biden recently stumped for the party’s struggling nominee in liberal Oregon and is headed to New Mexico next week.
The current president and his predecessor, both unpopular with swing voters, are absent from the closest races. Incumbent Democrats have hit back by pointing to money they have pumped into law enforcement agencies and hammering Republicans for opposing abortion rights. Republican candidates for governor, who enjoy a favorable political environment but in many states are being outspent by Democrats, have slammed the airwaves with an avalanche of crime ads.
Obama said during a Saturday afternoon rally for Wisconsin Democrats in Milwaukee. Trump’s lies about the validity of the 2020 election. The Supreme Court has given states the power to write their own abortion laws, and Republican candidates in places including Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have embraced former President Donald J. The stakes in these races have become broader and clearer in recent months. Democrats are also sending in their cavalry, dispatching former President Barack Obama to a rally in Georgia on Friday before appearances in Michigan and Wisconsin on Saturday and in Nevada on Tuesday.
With pivotal races for the House and the Senate appearing to shift toward Republicans, the nation’s far more variable and highly consequential races for governor are drawing huge influxes of money.
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moves within striking distance of flipping the top office in a series of blue and battleground states and Democrats show surprising strength in several other contests. MILWAUKEE - Democrats and Republicans raced on Saturday into the final stretch of more than a dozen competitive contests for governor, as the G.O.P.
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