“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 New York Times' Mara Gay and The Dispatch's David Drucker discuss the New York City mayoral race and the Democratic gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey and Virginia and what those races say about the party today.