The first big primaries of the year begin next week. And it will start with a bang when Texas and North Carolina have their contests.
Much of the attention has been on the Senate races. Texas' ugly Republican primary between incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and MAGA Attorney General Ken Paxton has Democrats thinking they can flip a seat, creating a contentious primary between James Talarico and Rep. Jasmine Crockett.
In North Carolina, Donald Trump's feud with Republican Sen. Thom Tillis drove Tillis into retirement. Polling shows the state's former Democratic governor Roy Cooper has a real shot to win.
But what's happening down ballot in House races is perhaps just as important for the future of the Democratic Party as it may dictate not just whether Democrats win a House majority, but what kind of House majority. Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, one factor has remained constant: Democratic voters hate the leaders of their party.
This has made some voters willing to take a risk and vote for more left-wing candidates in safer seats. Look no further than New York City making Zohran Mamdani mayor. And this month, in the primary for the special election to fill Mikie Sherrill's old seat in New Jersey's 11th district, activist Analilia Mejia beat a former congressman and a slate of more establishment candidates.
This all bears striking similarity to when Republicans saw the Tea Party wave that produced a crop of hellraisers in the 2010s who paved the way for Trump.
From college kids in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to the suburbs of Chicago to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas to the heart of Mamdani's New York, here's Inside Washington's slate of races that might show whether Democratic voters are mad enough to make a change.
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