CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten on Wednesday revealed that Democrats are faring historically well in the 2025-26 election cycle in ways the party hasn’t seen in nearly a decade and beyond. (Watch Enten’s analysis below.)

Enten remarked on the massive shifts to the left after liberal candidate Chris Taylor’s victory in Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race, a win that occurred on the same night of Democratic candidate Shawn Harris’ better-than-expected results in the Georgia special election for a U.S. House seat.

“Holy Toledo, holy smokes, holy cow,” the data chief said.

In Wisconsin, Taylor outperformed Kamala Harris’ 2024 vote margin in the state by 21 percentage points. Taylor’s victory marked the biggest open-seat win for a liberal candidate in over three decades, per Enten.

Enten argued that the Wisconsin win is part of a pattern of success for the left.

He noted that Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) outperformed Harris in the state by a margin of 10 points in the gubernatorial election back in November. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) also beat the former veep’s margin in her state’s gubernatorial election by 8 points last year.

Enten stressed that these figures are “even better” than those from the 2017-18 election cycle when Democratic/liberal candidates in the Wisconsin, Virginia and New Jersey races outperformed Hillary Clinton’s 2016 margin by 12, 4 and less than 1 points, respectively.

Democrats went on to take the U.S. House in the 2018 midterms.

Holy toldeo! The liberal for WI Supreme Court exceeded Harris 2024 by 21 points. Largest liberal win in an open seat in 30+ years.GA-14, the Dem, exceeded Harris by 25 pts. Largest Dem special overperformance since AL 2017 Sen.All suggests an easy Dem win in the House. pic.twitter.com/e5UalmelsD

Later in the segment, Enten pointed to special House elections from 2025 onward where Democrats outperformed Kamala Harris’ margins in their states by double digits.

While Shawn Harris lost to Trump-backed candidate Clay Fuller in the race to replace ex-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia, he outran the former veep’s 2024 margin by 25 points.

It marked the biggest overperformance by a Democrat in a special congressional election since former Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) won in 2017.

“My goodness gracious! That beat all the other Dem overperformances. And they’ve overperformed in all of them,” said Enten of Shawn Harris’ results.

“So, we’re even getting higher than the highest of heights.”

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