The anti-Trump vote appears as strong as ever

President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his role in a pretty grim 2025 election for Republicans.

“I watched that election, which I was not much involved in,” Trump said in the Oval Office alongside Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

“I didn’t support Virginia, the [gubernatorial] candidate. I didn’t do a lot of support for the other candidate [in New Jersey]. They asked me about [New York City mayoral candidate Andrew] Cuomo, and I said, well, it’s a question – do you want a thug or do you want a communist?

“So I wasn’t involved in that stuff too much.”

But however you want to characterize Trump’s role in Tuesday’s off-year elections in Virginia and New Jersey, there is no question they were about him.