Trump dominates the election campaigns of 2025 despite the fact of not being on the ballot

His name is not on the ballot, but President Donald Trump is the number one subject on the campaign of the campaign this summer in the best electoral battles 2025.

Democratic representative Mikie Sherrill, the candidate for the post of party governor in New Jersey, several times attaches his republican rival to Trump and the balayage and the controversial movements of the president during his almost eight months at the White House.

“While Trump has inflicted all this damage on our country, republican politicians as Jack Ciattarelli encouraged him at each stage,” said Sherrill in a fundraising e-mail to the partisans.

Meanwhile, Ciattarelli, a former state legislator who almost defeated the Democratic Governor Phil Murphy four years ago, highlights the support of the president.

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The republican candidate for the Republican Governor Jack Ciattarelli was interviewed by Fox News Digital in Pine Hill, NJ, on June 2, 2025. (Paul Steinhauser / Fox News)

“We are going to try to deploy the president, the White House, in any way possible, said Ciattarelli last week at an event at the National Golf Club of Bedminster, New Jersey.

It’s not just New Jersey.

Municipal competitions of the State and the best municipal competitions from one ocean to another are partially supervised as referendums on Trump and his agenda.

And the Democrats and the Republicans see the confrontation in New Jersey, as well as in Virginia, the only other state which organizes elections of governors and legislative on the year following a presidential competition, as key barometers before the middle of next year, when the GOP defends its majorities in the Chamber and in the Senate.

Add to this list the vote in November for the redistribution of the congress in California, the three tales of the three states of the Supreme Court in the battlefield in Pennsylvania and the elections of the town hall of New York.

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“In the hyper-partisan environment of today, each election is examined and (on) analyzed for its implications for national parties,” said Vayne Lesperance veteran political scientist in Fox News.

Lesperance, president of the New England College, said that the results of this November elections “will serve as fodder for the experts to draw conclusions on President Trump and the GOP or the prospects for the Democrats to regain control of the Congress”.

President Donald Trump is expressed with journalists from the James Brady Press newsletter at the White House, Monday, August 11, 2025, in Washington, DC (AP photo / Alex Brandon)

The Democrats, who aim to leave the political desert after the setbacks of last year’s elections, when they lost control of the White House and the Senate and have not recognized the majority of the room, highlight their success so far this year in special elections.

From pointing a victory in the special elections last week in the red state of Iowa, where the Democrats overthrew a siege of the GOP state Senate, the president of the National Democratic Committee (DNC), Ken Martin, presented: “We have outperformed at each election that has been on the ballot since Donald Trump was inaugurated.”

“There is a wind in the back,” said Martin.

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But the special elections are far from the perfect barometers of to come.

“He challenges the logic to assume that the results of a breed of the State Senate in a state give a preview of national public opinion on the president or the opposition party,” said Lesperance.

And the Republicans underline the multitude of problems with which the Democratic Party faces.

“Unfortunately for the DNC, the truth is that the approval rating of the Democrats is a hollow of 30 years, because the party has bleed up more than 2 million voters in the past four years,” said communications director of the National Republican Committee, Zach Parkinson, in Fox News.

Here is an overview closer to the best elections of 2025.

New Jersey

The Republicans believe that they have momentum on their side as they try to win their first election of governor in New Jersey in blue in a dozen years.

They indicate that Trump proposes in the Garden State last November, when the president spent a loss of 16 points in the state in the 2020 elections to a six -point deficit in 2024.

Representative Mikie Sherrill spoke with journalists after having voted at the Hillside elementary school in Montclair, New Jersey, on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey / Fox News Digital)

Ciattarelli, who makes his third consecutive offer for the Governor of New Jersey, has accessed the appointment of the GOP earlier this year thanks to Trump’s approval.

And in his main speech of victory, Ciattarelli argued that Sherrill would try to nationalize the race by connecting it to Trump.

“Mark my words, while we focus on these key questions from New Jersey, my Democratic opponent will do everything in his power to change the subject. Believe me, if this campaign was a game of alcohol consumption and you took a hit each time Mikie Sherrill says Trump, you are going to be drunk from your A- every day … between November 4,” said Cittarelli.

Sherrill, a former US Navy officer and a former federal prosecutor before the first election in the congress in 2018, is the pioneer of survey in the confrontation of the general elections.

Murphy, who was elected for the first time in 2017, is limited to term.

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, 61, was born in the island nation of the Caribbean of Jamaica and immigrated to the United States at the age of six. 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.

The Lieutenant of Virginie Républicain WinSome Earle-Sears, on the left, and the former Democrat representative Abigail Spanberger are confronted in the virginia Gubernatorial elections of Virginia this year. (Getty Images)

Spanberger, 46, was born in New Jersey. The former CIA intelligence official won the elections at Congress 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.

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

Doge’s movements, which were initially directed by Elon Musk, the richest person in the world – were felt acute in North Virginia, which is highly populated by the suburbs of Washington, with its large federal workforce.

Kyle Kondik, editor -in -chief of the non -support political disabled by Sabato Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said that “Trump counts a lot for the general elections”.

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 legislator of the 33 -year -old Democratic Socialist State, Zohran Mamdani, during the primary of mayor of the June Democratic Party, sent political shock through 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 candidates of the mayor of the city of New York, from left to right, the candidate of the Democratic Party Zohran Mamdani, the mayor Eric Adams, the former governor Andrew Cuomo and the republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. (Getty Images)

Also on the voting bulletin, the mayor Eric Adams, a democrat who presents himself as an independent and double republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa.

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

California Prop 50

Voters in strongly blue California will vote in November on the opportunity to temporarily put their popular non -partisan redistribution commission and to allow 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 of the left congress in the Golden State, to counter the new cards that the conservative governor Greg Abbott signed last week, which will create up to five other districts of the American chamber on the right in the red state of Texas.

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a plan for a special election on November 4, 2025, to request the approval of voters for a new congress card on August 14, 2025 in Los Angeles. (AP)

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 5-2 majority on the highest courtyard of Pennsylvania.

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.