New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s crushing victory over actress and activist Cynthia Nixon brought down the curtain on a long primary season last Thursday. Now the candidates are in place for the midterm elections as his fellow Democrats try to rebuke President Trump, recapture Congress and chip away at the Republicans’ stranglehold on the nation’s governorships.

As is often the case with politics in the Trump era, however, nothing is ever easy. Democrats are defending 26 Senate seats to the Republicans’ nine, including 10 in states Trump won in 2016. In about half of these states, the president is still popular, creating the possibility that the GOP will actually expand its narrow 51-49 majority in the upper chamber. Some of the most popular governors in the country are Republicans, including incumbents running for reelection this year in Massachusetts and Maryland, the bluest of states.