“There are a lot of similarities” in Democrats’ current position and the 2018 campaigns, said Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., who, as a House member, chaired his party’s congressional campaign arm during Trump’s first midterm election cycle.

The race between Democrat Abigail Spanberger and Republican Winsome Earle-Sears will, regardless of the result, install the commonwealth’s first female governor.