Red, white and (increasingly) blue. How Democrats look to take advantage of state 'trifectas'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Michigan Democrats want to expand state civil rights law to include anti-discrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity.
48% : As with abortion, Michigan voters did much of the heavy lifting by approving a wide-ranging constitutional amendment last year to create early voting; block stringent voter ID rules; and expand absentee voting.
47% : The Minnesota Senate pushed through a bill by a 34-33 party-line margin to ensure abortion is a "fundamental right" in the state.
45% : And in Maryland, the 64-member Black caucus has an ambitious agenda, such as eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana possession and ending so-called "odor searches" where police can stop a motorist because they say they smell marijuana.
33% : "It was really important for the first time for many of us to not be on defense around this fundamental right of reproductive freedom and access to abortion, to go on the offensive and make sure we were codifying it," Gov. Tim Walz, who signed that measure Tuesday, told USA TODAY.
33% : That began in January with a measure introduced on the first day of the session that eliminates a 1931 law that criminalized abortion.

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