一名海军老兵，一名前国会议员，一名自认民主社会主义者获胜周二在备受瞩目的竞选中取得了巨大胜利——所有人都打着民主党的旗号，并且都解决了人们对可负担性的普遍担忧。
据报道，尽管履历各异，但新泽西州、弗吉尼亚州和纽约市的民主党得票率最高的人，在将经济或生活成本列为首要问题的选民面前，各自获胜出口民调由美国广播公司新闻主持。
民主党候选人之间的面包和黄油优势标志着一年前总统选举的急剧转变，当时人们对通货膨胀普遍不满助燃剂唐纳德·特朗普总统的成功和共和党对国会的控制。
美国广播公司(ABC News)的出口民调显示，周二，大约一半的弗吉尼亚州选民表示，经济是联邦面临的最重要问题，他们支持民主党人阿比盖尔·斯潘伯格(Abigail Spanberger)的比例超过24个百分点。
与此同时，超过一半的纽约市选民表示，生活成本是该市面临的最重要的问题，使美国广播公司新闻出口民调中衡量的其他问题相形见绌——其中约三分之二的选民投票给民主党人Zohran Mamdani。
美国广播公司新闻出口民调显示，税收和经济是新泽西州选民的两大问题，同样比例的侧重于税收的选民支持共和党人杰克·西塔雷利，而侧重于经济的选民支持民主党人米基·谢里尔。
虽然每个候选人都有不同的降低成本的提议——马姆达尼是最强烈反对提高最富有人群的税率以支付儿童保育等服务的人——但大量选民被他们的信息所吸引。
在接受美国广播公司新闻采访时早安美国周三，马姆达尼表示，他将自己的选举胜利视为追求纽约人几十年来“最雄心勃勃”的负担能力议程的“使命”。
他说，为该议程提供资金的第一步是推动提高纽约最富有人群的税率，同时将公司税从目前的7.25%左右提高到11.5%。
“这些事情总共筹集了大约90亿美元，”34岁的州议会议员马姆达尼(Mamdani)告诉美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)，他指出，这样的收入“超过了支付经济议程的费用，也开始证明我们的城市不受特朗普的影响。”
周二的结果与一年前11月的全国大选结果形成鲜明对比，当时川普横扫所有七个摇摆州，在选举人票上决定性地战胜了民主党候选人卡玛拉·哈里斯。
根据民意测验的结果，当时大约三分之二的选民认为经济状况不佳美国广播公司新闻出口民调。47%的选民表示，他们自己的财务状况比四年前更糟糕，这超过了2008年大衰退后立即持有这一观点的比例。
在去年总统大选前进行的民意调查中，通货膨胀和经济一直是选民最关心的问题。
今年早些时候，价格上涨速度有所放缓，但现在确实如此捡起来最近几个月，达到了特朗普上任时1月份注册的同一水平。与此同时，近几个月来，招聘放缓，带来了被称为“双重经济打击”的风险滞胀."
在上的帖子中X周三，副总统万斯淡化了前一天选举的重要性，但他也承认选民的财务担忧的重要性。
万斯说:“我认为对蓝州的几次选举反应过度是愚蠢的。
他补充说:“总统已经做了很多，已经在降低利率和降低通胀方面取得了回报，但我们从乔·拜登那里继承了一场灾难，罗马不是一天建成的。”
万斯说:“我们将继续努力，让这个国家过上负担得起的体面生活，这是我们在2026年及以后最终被评判的标准。”
How the economy flipped from a red to blue issue, according to exit polls
A Navy veteran, an ex-member of Congress and a self-avoweddemocratic socialistwonresounding victories in high-profile races on Tuesday – all carrying the banner of the Democratic party and each addressing widespread concern about affordability.
Despite varied biographies, top-of-the-ballot Democrats across New Jersey, Virginia and New York City each prevailed in contests before electorates who ranked the economy or cost of living as a top issue, according toexit pollsconducted by ABC News.
The bread-and-butter advantage among Democratic nominees marked a sharp turnabout from the presidential election a year ago, when widespread discontent over inflationhelped fuelthe success of President Donald Trump and the Republican control of Congress.
Roughly half of Virginia voters on Tuesday said that the economy was the most important issue facing the commonwealth, and they supported Democrat Abigail Spanberger by more than 24 percentage points, according to ABC News exit polling.
Meanwhile, more than half of New York City voters said cost of living was the most important issue facing the city, dwarfing the other issues measured in ABC News exit polling – and around two-thirds of those voters cast ballots for Democrat Zohran Mamdani.
Taxes and the economy tallied as the two top issues among voters in New Jersey, and similar shares of tax-focused voters supported Republican Jack Ciattarelli while economy-focused voters supported Democrat Mikie Sherrill, ABC News exit polling showed.
Although each candidate has different proposals to lower costs -- with Mamdani being the most vocal about raising the tax rate on the wealthiest to pay for services such as child care -- voters in huge numbers were attracted to their messages.
Speaking to ABC News’s "Good Morning America" on Wednesday, Mamdani said he saw his election victory as a "mandate" to pursue the "most ambitious" affordability agenda for New Yorkers in decades.
He described the first steps toward funding that agenda as pushing to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers -- along with raising corporate taxes to 11.5% from its current level at about 7.25%.
"These things together raise about $9 billion," Mamdani, a 34-year-old member of the state assembly who identifies as a democratic socialist, told ABC News, noting such revenue “more than pays for the economic agenda and also starts to Trump-proof our city."
The results on Tuesday contrast sharply with the outcome of nationwide elections a year ago this November, when Trump swept all seven swing states en route to a decisive electoral-vote victory over Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
Back then, about two-thirds of voters said the economy was in bad shape, according to the results of theABC News exit poll. Forty-seven percent of voters said their own financial situation was worse than it had been four years earlier, which exceeded the share who held that view in the immediate wake of the Great Recession in 2008.
Inflation and the economy consistently ranked as a top concern among voters in polls conducted ahead of last year’s presidential election.
Price increases slowed earlier this year but they havepicked upin recent months, arriving at the same level registered in January at the time Trump took office. Meanwhile, hiring has slowed in recent months, posing a risk of an economic double-whammy known as "stagflation."
In a post onXon Wednesday, Vice President J.D. Vance downplayed the significance of the elections a day earlier, but he also acknowledged the importance of voters’ financial worries.
"I think it's idiotic to overreact to a couple of elections in blue states," Vance said.
He added: "The president has done a lot that has already paid off in lower interest rates and lower inflation, but we inherited a disaster from Joe Biden and Rome wasn't built in a day."
"We're going to keep on working to make a decent life affordable in this country, and that's the metric by which we'll ultimately be judged in 2026 and beyond," Vance said.
