Voters will head to the polls across the US on Tuesday for state and local elections that will take the political temperature nearly one year into Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.
Hundreds of local government positions ranging from school board governors and city council officials to judges, mayors and governors will be voted on in dozens of states across America.
But races in the following five states will have national significance, providing the clearest signal yet of how Republicans and Democrats are faring in the eyes of the electorate one year out from next year’s midterm elections, when control of both chambers of Congress will be up for grabs.