New Jersey, Virginia Gubernatorial Races to test Trump Agenda in 2025

His name is not on the ballot, but the president Donald Trump The agenda of the second unprecedented mandate and the closure of the federal government is leading on the campaign track with a month to go to the 2025 election day.

Under the spotlights in November are New Jersey and Virginia, the only two states to organize governors competitions in the year following a presidential election.

The races, which traditionally attract disproportionate national attention, are considered to be crucial tests of the popularity and the agenda of Trump, and key barometers before the mid-term events next year for the American room and the Senate.

Next month, the proposal of the Urns on the Rediscovery of the Congress in California also presents itself the proposal of the ballot boxes in California, the three states of the Supreme Court of the State appear in Battleground Pennsylvania and in the major mayors elections of New York.

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New Jersey

Trump weighs heavily on this year’s ballot box for the governor of New Jersey.

And the republican candidate for governor, Jack Ciattarelli, who benefits from the president’s support, explains the Democratic candidate, representative Mikie Sherrill, tries to use Trump as a cake.

“Listen, if you get a flat tire on the way back to work today, she will blame him on the president. There is nothing that she does not blame the president,” said Ciattarelli in a digital Fox News interview.

The Blue State Republican tears the democratic rival for blamed `all on Trump ”

Sherrill, in a recent email for fundraising to supporters, accused: “As Trump inflicted all this damage on our country, republican politicians as Jack Ciattarelli encouraged him at each stage of the way.”

The Democrat representative of the Governor of Governors Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey answers questions during the first general electoral debate with the republican opponent Jack Ciattarelli, on September 21, 2025, in Lawrenceville, NJ (AP photo / Noah K. Murray)

And during their first debate last month, she underlined Ciattarelli and said that “he will do everything Trump tells her to do.”

The two candidates also exchanged fire on which is to blame for the closure of the federal government, which has an impact on the Garden State.

Ciattarelli, stressing the vote of his rival in the congress, said: “I know that there is a bipartite congress group which tries to keep the government open. My opponent decided not to be part of this bipartite group, and she voted no. And so we are here.”

Sherrill, who has repeatedly linked Ciattarrelli to Trump, placed the closure blame outright on Trump’s shoulders, writing in an article on social networks, “it is precisely the Maga Far Agenda that @ Jack4NJ wants to bring to the NJ.”

The two candidates compete next week during the second and last debate in the race to succeed the Democratic Governor limited to terms Phil Murphy.

Ciattarelli, who made his third consecutive race for the governor and who almost turned the Democratic Governor Phil Murphy four years ago, reduced the speech that Trump is the dominant question of the race.

And Ciattarelli, a former state legislator and certified accounting that launched a medical publishing company before embarking on politics, accused the Democrats of blaming, while he was doing overtime by trying to connect Sherrill to Murphy and the Democrats who have long controlled state legislature in Trenton.

The republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli, on the left, shake the hand of the Democratic candidate for Governor Mikie Sherrill, on the right, before a debate on Sunday September 21, 2025, in Lawrenceville, NJ (AP photo / Noah K. Murray)

The battle of combustible ballot boxes was shaken two weeks ago after a report revealed that the United States Naval Academy prevented it from participating in its 1994 diploma in the middle of a cheating scandal.

Ciattarelli and his campaign call Sherrill, who continued to pilot helicopters during his military career after graduating from the Naval Academy, to release her military files to explain why she was prevented from attending her graduation ceremony.

But a second report revealed that the National Personal Records Center, which is a branch of the National Archives and Records Administration, published in a wandering manner the files of inappropriate military personnel of Sherrill, which included private information, including its social security number, to an ally Ciattarelli.

The news stimulated calls by the best democrats across the country for an investigation.

Virginia

Governor’s Republican Lieutenant Winsome Earle-Sears faces the former Democrat representative Abigail Spanberger in the race to succeed the governor of Gop Glenn Youngkin.

Youngkin is prevented from presenting himself to the re -election, because the constitution of Virginia does not allow the sitting governors to seek consecutive conditions.

Earle-Sears was born in the island nation of the Caribbean of Jamaica and immigrated to the United States at the age of 6. She served in the Marines and is a former state legislative that marked history four years ago when she won the election as the first woman governor of Virginia.

WinSome Earle-Sears, Republican candidate for the post of governor for Virginia, center, during a campaign event in the fire service of Vienna Vienna in Vienna, Virginia, in the United States, Tuesday, July 1, 2025. Earle-Sears will face its former Abigail Spanberger representative in November, giving the state its first government. (Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Spanberger is a former CIA intelligence officer who won the congress elections in 2018 before guaranteeing a re -election in 2020 and 2022.

The winner in November will make history as the first woman governor of Virginia in the history of the four -centuries Commonwealth. In addition, if Earle-Sears comes out in the lead, she will become the country’s first black woman to win the election as governor.

Trump and his policies are a major problem in the confrontation of the state governor.

Abigail Spanberger, candidate for the Governor of the Democratic Party of Virginia, is addressed to the crowd during an event in support of his candidacy at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center in Richmond, Virginia, April 8, 2025. (Max Posner / The Washington Post / Getty Images)

The president Government Department of Effectiveness (DOGE) was on mission this year to cut public spending and reduce the federal workforce.

The Dogey movements, which were initially directed by Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, were felt acutely in North Virginia, which is highly populated by the suburbs of Washington, with its large federal workforce.

And the closure of this week’s federal government, which will likely reach Virginia harshly, is also a leading subject of the race.

new York

The elections to the mayor in the most populous city in the country always attract disproportionate attention, in particular this year, because New York can elect its first Muslim mayor and first millennium.

The victory of the 33 -year -old Democratic Socialist State legislator, Zohran Mamdani, during the primary mayor of the June Democratic Party, sent political shock across the country. And he was attacked by the Republicans and his rivals on the ballot of his distant proposals.

Mamdani is the clear precursor of the highly blue city while he faces the former governor Andrew Cuomo, who came to a second distant from the primary and now presents himself as an independent candidate. Cuomo aims for a political return after having resigned as governor four years ago in the midst of several scandals.

The legislator of the Democratic Socialist State Zohran Mamdani, on the left, is the candidate for the town hall of the Democratic Party in New York. Former governor Andrew Cuomo presents himself in the general elections as an independence. (Getty Images)

Curtis Sliwa, a Republican candidate twice, Curtis Sliwa, co-founder of the Guardian Angels, the non-profit, a community security group based on volunteers.

The besieged mayor Eric Adams, a democrat who presented himself to a re -election as an independent, abandoned the race a week ago, but his name remains on the ballot.

Trump, a native New York, has been continuously under the spotlight for months.

California Prop 50

Voters Strongly blue California Voting in November on the opportunity to temporarily put their popular non -partisan redistribution commission and to authorize the legislature dominated by the Democrats to determine the redistribution of the Congress for the next three electoral cycles.

The vote will be the culmination of an effort by Governor Gavin Newsom And the Democrats of California to create up to five seats at the left congress in the Golden State to counter the new cards that conservative governor Greg Abbott pointed out in August, which will create up to five other districts of the right -wing American house in the red state of Texas.

California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is speaking during a Congress Rediscovery event on Thursday, August 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP photo / Rich Pedroncelli)

Rediscuping in Texas, which came after Trump’s request, is part of a wider GOP effort across the country to fill their majority at the time of a thin house like the razor to keep control of the mid-term room in 2026, when the power party faces political winds and loses seats.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Democrats currently have a majority of 5-2 Pennsylvania’s highest jurisdiction.

But three Democratic judges at the Supreme Court of the State, after the completion of their 10 -year deadlines, take place to keep their seats in the “yes” or “no” detention elections.

The election could upset the composition of the court for the next decade, strongly influence whether the Democrats or the Republicans have an advantage in the delegation and the legislature of the Congress of the State, and have an impact on crucial cases, in particular voting and reproductive rights.

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Although elections to the Supreme Court of the State generally do not draw much national attention, the competitions where the balance of a court in a key state of the battlefield is to be won attracted tons of external money.

The confrontation of the Supreme Court of the State this spring in Wisconsin, where the liberal majority of 4-3 was maintained, attracted nearly $ 100 million in outside money while the two parties deposited resources in the election.