The 2020 presidential campaign loomed into focus on Wednesday, even as thousands of 2018 midterms ballots were still being counted and several key races were yet to be called.
But Democrats searching for a path to the presidency in Donald Trump’s America found little clarity in the results from Tuesday’s elections.
A nation deeply divided along geographic and cultural lines delivered a split verdict in an election cast as a referendum on the president.
“If Dems were looking for an obvious frontrunner for 2020 to emerge from 2018 results, well, you didn’t get one,” said Amy Walter, an elections analyst with the Cook Political Report.