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| Ran against some strong progressives and beat them in a primary and then went out and beat the Republican in a race that Republicans really tried very hard to win. | ||
| They spent, you know, $20 million or something trying to win this election. | ||
| They thought they could do it. | ||
| And against a sort of far more moderate candidate who, again, beat a progressive, beat progressive candidate she won. | ||
| So it's, you know, it's a mixed message. | ||
| All right, Mike and Cheryl, it looks like she's coming out to talk to her supporters on this election night 2025 live coverage here on C-SPAN. | ||
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Wow. | |
| But man, with this vote, you guys just screamed from the rooftops. | ||
| People in the country have heard you. | ||
| I hear you too. | ||
| This was a tough fight, and this is a tough state. | ||
| But I know you, New Jersey. | ||
| And I love you. | ||
| I fought for you. | ||
| I've spoken with thousands of you over this last year. | ||
| I know your struggles. | ||
| I know your hopes. | ||
| I know your dreams. | ||
| So serving you is worth any tough fight I have to take on. | ||
| And I am incredibly honored to be the next governor. | ||
| When I was 18, I raised my hand and I swore to defend the Constitution. | ||
| And that moment defines me. | ||
| It taught me that leadership means carrying the weight of other people's hopes, standing firm when it's easier to bend, and always putting the common good above personal gain. | ||
| And I know how hard it can be to serve in these times. | ||
| And I just got a call from Jack Cittarelli, and I want to recognize him for stepping up. | ||
| I love our history. | ||
| And our state motto has always stuck with me. | ||
| In 1777, New Jersey was one of the first states to choose a motto. | ||
| Anybody? | ||
| Liberty and prosperity. | ||
| I'm going to get some more civics education going. | ||
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We'll get that known by all. | |
| But it was a demand for freedom from oppression and a commitment to creating better opportunity and a better future. | ||
| That idea has defined us for almost 250 years. | ||
| We fought for liberty at the crossroads of the American Revolution, turning the tide for our young nation at the battles of Trenton and Princeton. | ||
| We offered prosperity as we built the nation during the Industrial Revolution. | ||
| We've been the cradle of scientific discovery, inventing everything from the light bulb to the laser. | ||
| Liberty and prosperity. | ||
| I've seen the genius in that motto over the last year because both are essential in our democracy. | ||
| And as the president is backing away from this ideal, cutting snap, ripping away health care, terminating gateway, we here in New Jersey are bound to fight for a different future for our children. | ||
| We see how clearly important liberty is. | ||
| We know that no one in our great state is safe when our neighbors are targeted, ignoring the law and the Constitution. | ||
| But prosperity is equally essential. | ||
| Liberty alone is not enough if the government makes it impossible for you to feed your family, to get a good education, or to get a good job. | ||
| So in this country, that shouldn't be too much to ask. | ||
| But right now, all of it seems at risk. | ||
| Governors have never mattered more. | ||
| This state, I am determined to build prosperity for all of our citizens. | ||
| And I've heard from thousands of you about what liberty and prosperity mean to you, what it's going to take for your family to thrive. | ||
| So I hear you, Newark. | ||
| I'm going to work with communities from the ground up so all of our neighbors thrive. | ||
| So I'm going to declare a state of emergency on day one to drive down your utility costs. | ||
| I hear you, Westfield, so I'm going to make sure our kids are safe online and schools have the resources they need to address the mental health crisis. | ||
| I hear you, Jersey City, so I'm going to hold government accountable, balancing individual liberty with collective responsibility, ensuring people are safe, healthy, educated, and free to pursue their dreams. | ||
| I hear you, New Jersey. | ||
| Good government doesn't just manage problems, it solves them. | ||
| So I'm going to continue to listen and work with you to move our state forward. | ||
| Because I have learned so much as I've traveled our state. | ||
| Our innovations, our businesses, our inventors and entrepreneurs have amazed me. | ||
| But it's the people, the people that have left the biggest mark, especially those who are fighting for prosperity for their entire communities. | ||
| I was moved during my block walk in Trenton with Shanique as she spoke so passionately about the promise of her city and her neighbors despite the challenges. | ||
| I love the group of young men from Monroe who've been hard at work on this campaign. | ||
| They want a seat at the table and they're ready to fight for their future. | ||
| The little girls who come up to me to say that they're going to be a governor or they're going to be a president. | ||
| It reminds me of my own belief that anything was possible. | ||
| Akeem's team, who worked their budget, knocked over 60,000 doors. | ||
| the kids who will succeed in Trump's vision of this country, but they will in mine. | ||
| the men and women in labor union jobs at a time when our to make it hard for working people You know what? | ||
| They don't just fight for their brothers and sisters in labor. | ||
| They fight for all of us. | ||
| For working families everywhere, so everyone has a shot. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
| Thank you to each and every person here tonight and across the state who's worked hard over the last year. | ||
| Thanks to the thousands of volunteers who made millions of calls, texts, and canvases. | ||
| To everyone who's ready to stand and demand a better future for our kids and our families. | ||
| To my running mate, Dr. Dale Caldwell, you've served our state so well, and I'm proud to have you by my side as we embark upon this new chapter for New Jersey. | ||
| To my team who put together a campaign the likes of this team has never seen and helped in our efforts to create a great future for New Jersey. | ||
| And thanks to my family who put up with missed soccer games, lacrosse games, football games, volleyball games, swim meets, and rugby games. | ||
| All to put up with this. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
| And a special thanks to my husband, Jason. | ||
| Through four kids, two dogs, a hamster, numerous goldfish, five campaigns, an insurrection, and two impeachments, you have been a truly amazing partner. | ||
| So thank you to everyone who's joined me in fighting for a better future. | ||
| I know these are tough times. | ||
| I know not everyone voted for me, but I'm working for everyone. | ||
| Every single one of you. | ||
| When we all do better, we all do better. | ||
| So tomorrow begins a new day. | ||
| And at each new day in New Jersey, the sun rises over the Statue of Liberty. | ||
| A daily reminder of her promise. | ||
| Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. | ||
| Here's that her lamp lights the path to the golden door. | ||
| That golden door is New Jersey. | ||
| It always has been. | ||
| And that expectation is well deserved. | ||
| Especially after this election, where we chose we're going to follow Lady Liberty's Beacon. | ||
| We're not going to give in to our darker impulses. | ||
| Here in New Jersey, we know that this nation has not ever been, nor will it ever be, ruled by kings. | ||
| We take oaths to a constitution, not a king. | ||
| We've chosen liberty, the very foundation of democracy, and we've chosen prosperity necessary to create opportunity for all. | ||
| So, New Jersey, to quote the boss, the future is now. | ||
| Roll up your sleeves, let your passion flow. | ||
| The country we carry in our hearts is waiting. | ||
| Governor-elect Mikey Sherrill wins in the Garden State tonight, becoming only the second female governor of the Garden State. | ||
| You can see the confetti has come down at her headquarters in New Jersey. | ||
| She's talked to her supporters, and that's part of our live coverage here on C-SPAN on Election Night 2025. | ||
| We want to bring you an update leaving New Jersey going to Virginia. | ||
| Jay Jones, the Democratic candidate for Attorney General, has been declared the winner by the Associated Press. | ||
| They're projecting him to beating Jason Mieres, the Republican candidate there, with 87% of the vote in, 52.2% for Jay Jones, 47.4% for Jason Mieres, the Republican incumbent. | ||
| Joining us as part of our election night coverage this evening, Evan McMorris Santoro of Notice. | ||
| What do you make of these numbers? | ||
| Jay Jones, first of all, his candidacy, declared the winner by the Associated Press. | ||
| We thought it might take a little bit longer tonight, not performing as well as Abigail Spamberger, but he's got the check mark. | ||
| I mean, he carried with him an immense amount of baggage. | ||
| I mean, this scandal around these text messages that were uncovered that he sent were, you know, they're awful. | ||
| I mean, he apologized for them. | ||
| He said they were awful. | ||
| Voters apparently believed that. | ||
| But this just goes to show how embarrassing this night is proving to be for Republicans, because Jason Jones was a national rallying cry for Republicans. | ||
| They activated over this. | ||
| They talked about it constantly. | ||
| Ads were ran about this. | ||
| And, you know, it was sort of a soft spot in the Democratic ticket, right? | ||
| Whereas the Democrats sort of did this thing where they all sort of stuck with him. | ||
| They condemned his comments. | ||
| They didn't call for him to drop out. | ||
| This was seen just a couple weeks ago as maybe a huge problem for the Democrats in Virginia. | ||
| But in the end, it turns out, voters were more interested in punishing Republican policies and Republicans, it seems like, than punishing this guy for saying these horrible things that he did on text messages about his political opponents. | ||
| It is a big wake-up call moment for Republicans who think that they have their message going forward. | ||
| They have a lot of explaining to do. | ||
| People are not happy with them, or a guy like Jay Jones would not have one. | ||
| That's how I victory. | ||
| To me, that's how I feel about it. | ||
| And Democrats win the governorship. | ||
| They win the lieutenant governor in Virginia. | ||
| The Attorney General goes to Democrats, Jay Jones. | ||
| What is happening in the House delegates? | ||
| It seems the Democrats are poised for their biggest majority. | ||
| They've had there since like 1989. | ||
| I mean, this is a dramatic shift for this state that has been sort of teetering. | ||
| Are we purple? | ||
| Are we red? | ||
| Are we blue? | ||
| What are we doing? | ||
| They're blue after tonight. | ||
| That's what they're doing. | ||
| We're already seeing some Republicans try to characterize that to push this result away. | ||
| As you're going to see in the next couple of days, everybody's as they process this are going to tell you why they either matter more than they do or they don't matter at all. | ||
| And, you know, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, recently tweeted earlier tonight that, you know, looking at these results, it just shows that Virginia is shifting really far to the left, and that's what's going on. | ||
| But really, you know, Yunkin is a Republican. | ||
| He's governor. | ||
| He was fairly popular. | ||
| You know, this is a place where Republican messaging around social issues was very effective in past elections, which they tried to do again in this governor's race. | ||
| A lot of ads about trans rights, for example, that just didn't work at all. | ||
| They had this sort of moment where they had this candidate with Jay Jones who really had this massive scandal, polarizing scandal, and they had the Democrats on the back foot couldn't capitalize on it. | ||
| This is not simply like, well, poof, I guess Virginia is a blue state again. | ||
| The pressure above all of that, of course, is that the President of the United States went and tried to fire a significant amount of people who live in Virginia. | ||
| And this is that thing of like, this is why these first year elections are so important. | ||
| They seem like they're not. | ||
| Like, I don't know. | ||
| We have a bunch of them coming up next year. | ||
| This is all local issues. | ||
| But the fact is, this is the first time people got to really weigh in on how they feel about how this presidency is going. | ||
| Is this a report card? | ||
| And in Virginia, I think that's probably right. | ||
| And in Virginia, a place where this president's policies are particularly acutely felt, right? | ||
| His ideas of how to remake government, his ideas of how to change the way things work have been flatly, flatly rejected to the tune of the fact that Jay Jones won his election. | ||
| And this is a conversation the Republicans are going to have to have with themselves in the next couple of days. | ||
| But this is really more of a night than any of us thought Democrats are going to have walking in to today. | ||
| I talked to a lot of people before I came to talk to you all, and I had nobody saying to me, well, Jay Jones, we know we've got that one. | ||
| We're good. | ||
| They were very cautious about that one, and they were very skeptical about it. | ||
| And it is more narrow. | ||
| This does show that voters are upset by this scandal. | ||
| And obviously, it's very polarizing and a lot of conversation about it. | ||
| But to be unable to capitalize on that, it just shows what a whole Republicans are in, at least tonight. | ||
| And that follows a modest win by Kamala Harris in 2024 in Virginia, whereas 52% to 46%, barely 6% there for Kamala Harris. | ||
| President Trump losing by almost 6 percentage points in 2024, it was 10 percentage points in 2020. | ||
| So he made up ground. | ||
| And I expect the electorates will be somewhat different, but one of the stories that we saw coming in was that the places that Kamala Harris needed voters to turn out, they were turning out at 100% plus in this election for Spanberger. | ||
| Like they were like huge, huge numbers in this northern Virginia area where a lot of these federal workers live. | ||
| And places that the Republicans needed and that Trump had relied on, like in like Southwest Virginia, you saw those numbers like very below where they even were in 2021, the last governor's race. | ||
| Those are early numbers. | ||
| I haven't checked on those since then. | ||
| But this sort of narrative, it just shows if you, the momentum, the energy, the enthusiasm was fully with Democrats in a way that people didn't expect. | ||
| You know, this is a party that people thought was kind of in an electoral wasteland, I would say, like seven hours ago. | ||
| And now we're in a totally different, a totally different perspective. | ||
| Winston Earl Sears needed Glenn Yunkin numbers from 2021, not President Trump numbers from 2024. | ||
| Right, and she was a flawed candidate, too, right? | ||
| I mean, she had a lot of issues. | ||
| She never really got the full-throwed support of the president. | ||
| She never really was able to sort of capitalize on that energy. | ||
| A lot of Republicans didn't really like her very much. | ||
| They didn't spend a lot of money to help her. | ||
| But, yeah, like she was Yunkin's LG, and he did come out and try to support her. | ||
| But the numbers that, you know, these polls that have been really bad all along, but the results were even worse than the polls. | ||
| Let's go to Lacey, who's in Blacksburg, Virginia, an independent. | ||
| Lacey, who did you vote for? | ||
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Lacey's like, oh, yeah, I know all about. | |
| Hey, Lacey, in Blacksburg, Virginia. | ||
| It's your turn, independent caller. | ||
| Who did you vote for? | ||
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Yeah, I know. | |
| She does it. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I'm going to put Lacey on hold. | ||
| Let's go to Knoxville, Tennessee, Gwen, Democratic caller. | ||
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Gwen, what's your reaction to? | |
| Good evening. | ||
| What's your reaction to Election Night 2025 so far? | ||
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I am thrilled. | |
| I feel like people are waking up to the fact that our nation is pretty much in the hands of lawless people. | ||
| And especially with this business about food supplements, people are going to go hungry. | ||
| Health. | ||
| Health also. | ||
| What they want to make inroads on health. | ||
| And now the president is saying until people come in, come back to the Congress, until they come back to Congress and go into session, that he will not give benefits and so forth. | ||
| This is threatening. | ||
| ICE is terrifying. | ||
| American troops on American streets as a police force is terrifying. | ||
| And I see people waking up. | ||
| Hey, Gwen, can I ask you, in 2026 for the midterm elections, what kind of Democratic candidates do you want to see? | ||
| Do you want to see more Zorhan Mamdanis, or do you want to see moderate candidates like Abigail Spamberger and Mikey Sherrill? | ||
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I want to see people who care. | |
| And apparently all of these people care. | ||
| I am happy with anyone who puts the people ahead of their own selfish ambitions. | ||
| I read a thing on the internet just the other day. | ||
| Everything Trump does is for a party of one, himself. | ||
| I want people who are for the people. | ||
| All right, Gwen, we will leave it at that. | ||
| Evan McMorris Antoro. | ||
| You know, there's a story that Democrats tell that we don't talk about that very much. | ||
| They've been in the political wilderness for a long time. | ||
| And that story is the 2024 election was very, very close. | ||
| And in all the special elections since that election, Democrats have overperformed and leading up to tonight, which they will tell you is just a straight line shot from 2024 election night to tonight, momentum building for them. | ||
| We don't usually talk about this because they have not been winning. | ||
| They've not been in charge. | ||
| But what the caller was talking about, this idea of she's just sort of happy that all of these Democrats have won, that is a very powerful moment for Democrats who are trying to think about what they need to do next. | ||
| Because if they can build a coalition that has all their pieces in it, we've seen before, you know, they can win elections when they do that. | ||
| It's felt right, it's felt lately that it's been very divided. | ||
| But if you have a lot of candidates, a lot of voters out there saying, you know, listen, as long as you're not Trump, as long as you're different than the president and you are offering me something that says that maybe you care about me, I'll give you a look. | ||
| That's a very, very powerful thing for Democrats, something that Democrats themselves have been saying has been happening for months and months and months. | ||
| And maybe they have a bit more credibility tonight to say it. | ||
| Yeah, and the approval ratings for President Trump heading into tonight, this is a poll from NBC News. | ||
| 43% of those polled by NBC said they approve of the President Trump's job performance, 55% disapproving. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, they're not great numbers, but he has not had great numbers for a long time. | ||
| The thing about the interesting about him is he is not governed in that way. | ||
| He is governed as a guy who has great numbers and a huge mandate. | ||
| And this has been seen as a real asset by a lot of folks who like the president. | ||
| They think that this kind of presidency is a huge asset for them. | ||
| They promised a very dramatic shift in a different kind of politics, and they think that they were delivering it. | ||
| This is one of those referendums on that politics. | ||
| And it seems like a lot of voters, at least the voters who wanted to get up off the couch today and go vote, didn't like it. | ||
| We're watching tonight the New York City mayoral race. | ||
| As we've told you, Zo Ron Mamdani declared the winner. | ||
| We're waiting for Zo Ron Mamdani, the mayor-elect, to come out and speak. | ||
| We're also, there are his headquarters there in New York City. | ||
| And we also have cameras tonight at Andrew Cuomo's headquarters, who ran as an independent after losing the Democratic primary, the former governor, plagued by sexual misconduct allegations. | ||
| And we're waiting for the former governor to come out and speak to his supporters as well. | ||
| We're hearing that as any minute. | ||
| Candidate remarks are part of our coverage here on C-SPAN, and we'll bring them to you when we see the candidates. | ||
| Evan McMorris in Toro, what do you expect to hear from Andrew Cuomo? | ||
| What's his future here? | ||
| It's interesting. | ||
| On primary night in New York City when he lost, and I think he was very surprised by it. | ||
| A lot of people are surprised by that turnout. | ||
| He kind of had this sort of look. | ||
| He was like, I guess, you know, Mamdani did okay, and people want to do this. | ||
| We've seen him now kind of be a bit more fired up and energized. | ||
| It'll be interesting to see. | ||
| I mean, this is a guy who was a very, very powerful New Yorker. | ||
| Obviously, the long legacy. | ||
| And that does seem to be over now, I think. | ||
| But we'll see how he greets that moment. | ||
| All right. | ||
| We'll continue to watch the two headquarters there on your screen, Momdani and Cuomo. | ||
| Let's go to New Jersey, though. | ||
| Pat in Keyport, New Jersey. | ||
| Republican caller Pat, how did you vote today? | ||
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I voted today. | |
| I waited till today to vote because in order to vote early, I would have had to drive to the next town. | ||
| So I voted at my local voting place, which is like a five-minute walk from my home. | ||
| And Pat, who did you vote for? | ||
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I voted for Citarelli. | |
| It appears that it's a lost cause, but I think New Jersey is a lost cause. | ||
| But my interest right now is what's going to happen in New York City. | ||
| What are the globalists going to do when Momdani takes over in January? | ||
| What's going to happen to the people of New York City? | ||
| Are they going to be left to rot? | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| Pat's concerns there with the mayor-elect. | ||
| Republicans have tried to frame Zorhan Mamdani as what ahead of this election. | ||
| Oh, the ultimate boogeyman, sort of like this communist, dangerous, radical Islamophobia stuff has come up in it. | ||
| I had an interesting conversation with a Republican strategist not long ago who was saying, you know, we're so excited about Momdani. | ||
| Really thrilled about having this guy and be able to run ads against him and talk about how every other Democrat is a mom dying Democrat. | ||
| And, you know, that does make sense. | ||
| It's a pretty classic political strategy, not always effective. | ||
| But there is this sort of thing about the tides turning. | ||
| We've talked about the ages and the changes of the electorate. | ||
| You have a candidate who is young, who has captured the attention of the young, who has a huge internet following, incredibly famous, incredibly popular with young voters, and he's not a Republican, and that's supposed to be good for the Republicans. | ||
| It doesn't totally wash for me, but I understand what they're saying. | ||
| What's interesting about what the caller mentioned is this idea of what happens next when Mom Danny takes power. | ||
| She mentions, you know, what shadowy groups are going to do. | ||
| It's the President of the United States, the Republican President of the United States, who has promised to punish New York for his election. | ||
| So we'll see if that actually happens and what that actually looks like. | ||
| But the Republican Party has now made a huge part of its sort of future plan, making life in New York miserable to punish those voters for supporting Mamdani. | ||
| And, you know, that is the kind of rhetoric and policy that they did leading up to tonight. | ||
| So we'll see what kind of impact that has in 2026. | ||
| What kind of power does the mayor of New York City have? | ||
| Well, I mean, a lot of power, right? | ||
| I mean, the interesting thing about the job is, of course, while it's an ideological victory, a lot of what the mayor has to do is, you know, get the trash picked up on time, you know, the schools, you know, make sure the snow plows work, all that stuff. | ||
| And so this is what's an interesting, this is why it's such an interesting test to have Mamdani take this job. | ||
| Because generally, when you have these ideological candidates, they can sort of go up there and they can make a lot of speeches and do a lot of rhetoric stuff because, you know, they're in Congress or they're a senator or something like that. | ||
| Mamdani has to prove progressive politics by making it easier to get your trash picked up, right? | ||
| It has to be easier to ride the subway. | ||
| It has to be a nicer experience to try to go and deal with the government bureaucracy because he runs all that now. | ||
| And that'll be a big test for him. | ||
| Some of the powers he does not have is sort of like wave a magic wand and have the whole state taxation policy change and the housing policy and how the buses work. | ||
| He has to work with other people to make that happen if he really wants to make that happen. | ||
| But he does now have to carry his banner into the real nuts and bolts of where politics are in people's lives. | ||
| And that's what makes it such an interesting experiment because now he's got to own calling the wrong snow day or whatever that stuff is. | ||
| That is what really gets mayors in trouble, right? | ||
| With 89% of the vote in, he's at 50.3% of that Zora Momdani with the check mark next to his name, 41.6% for Andrew Aquomo. | ||
| How big of a margin does he have to have to declare a mandate and what does that mean? | ||
| Well, I think his people will declare a mandate no matter what, right? | ||
| Ever since the primary, they've been declaring a mandate. | ||
| I do think that we have seen in the general election a concerted effort by Mamdani and his team to broaden their support base to actually show other folks who are not immediately drawn to him that maybe there's a connection. | ||
| I mean, maybe there's a place for him for them and his coalition. | ||
| I think the number that he's looking at right now maybe shows that that's not been a totally proven case yet. | ||
| And he has a lot of work to do when it comes to that. | ||
| Polls did not show this being as close as it's looking. | ||
| But look, 50% of the three-way race, that's a pretty good number for anybody. | ||
| But his campaign prior to tonight has acknowledged that they have work to do with some New Yorkers. | ||
| And now he has to go out there and try to make that happen. | ||
| We'll continue to talk about that New York mayor race and the big apple tonight. | ||
| We want to go to Lacey, though, who's in Blacksburg, Virginia, an independent caller. | ||
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Lacey, who did you vote for? | |
| Hello, yes. | ||
| I voted for Spamberger for governor. | ||
| And I voted for her based on the fact that I look at the Trump presidency and what has taken place in Virginia as a result of the Trump presidency and how that affects us, number one, with the immigration. | ||
| And I feel that this election of Spamberger is a rebuttal or a reproof of the administration's attacks on not only this state, but the state of New York and the state of Virginia, which we see this democratic sweep of the positions that are open as far as governor and the state legislatures. | ||
| So what my particular question is to the panel is how does this affect the rest of the nation as it pertains to future elections that come up in 26 and 28 and the future of the nation as it pertains to these three elections moving forward. | ||
| All right. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Thank you, Caller. | ||
| Evan, Miss Prime Minister. | ||
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It's a great question. | |
| It's exactly my question. | ||
| But no, you know, what's interesting about tonight is, you know, this is a history does dictate this kind of night for the party out of power, as has been said earlier in the evening. | ||
| You can imagine what this was like in 2009 when Obama just won and we saw Republicans win in places like Virginia and New Jersey and things like that. | ||
| But what's interesting about that is that for this presidency, particularly for this moment in Republican politics, they have spoken a lot about sort of changing political dynamics and sort of breaking down a lot of those old rules, right? | ||
| Like the midterm election historically would favor Democrats simply because Trump is a Republican and is president. | ||
| But this Republican Party has said, no, we're building an operation and we're building a machine to change that reality. | ||
| We have all this money. | ||
| We're going to run a different way. | ||
| And also they point to how bad the Democratic brand has fallen, how low the Democratic brand has fallen as an opportunity to change some of these dynamics. | ||
| They didn't change those dynamics. | ||
| So suddenly a conversation that was about a midterm election that was like, I don't know, Trump is very different. | ||
| Republicans are very different. | ||
| Electric's very different now. | ||
| Maybe looking to the past, maybe that's not the right thing to do. | ||
| Maybe we shouldn't think about history. | ||
| Maybe some of these things don't stick to this president or stick to this Republican Party. | ||
| I would say that now, looking at this result and being such a historical win for Democrats, but along the lines of what kind of should happen in an election like this, that would suggest that maybe looking forward, political gravity does apply even to Trump. | ||
| We are 364 days. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Listen, 2026. | ||
| But I am saying that I think that there, but I am saying that there was, you could, I think that there are plenty of people who could have believed that this night could have gone very, very differently based on sort of the way Trump carries himself, the way this GOP presents itself and the way it runs a political operation. | ||
| Now they're sort of set in the place that a lot of presidents find themselves in, which is like, how do you go back to your party now and say, you got to follow me and do what I say right before you have to go out and run in the midterm elections after you think about those last elections, right? | ||
| There are a lot of Republicans now who are thinking about what do I have to do to keep my job. | ||
| Does tonight change the dynamics over the government shutdown? | ||
| We're at day 35, you know, making history tonight on election night with the government shutdown as well, as it now is the longest in U.S. history. | ||
| I don't, I really don't know the answer to that question. | ||
| And the reason why I don't know the answer to that question is that this government shutdown has been so different from any of the others. | ||
| We have not seen, this has not been a running open negotiation between ideological sides, figuring out a way to, you know, sort of through this. | ||
| This has been about entrenchment. | ||
| And I don't know if you are a Democrat tonight, are you saying, look, entrenchment is great. | ||
| We should be more entrenched. | ||
| We should stay as entrenched as we possibly can. | ||
| If you're a Republican, maybe you're saying, maybe we should not be as entrenched. | ||
| Maybe we need to do something different. | ||
| But in order to do that, you have to then, you know, sort of cross the president. | ||
| And that has proven very difficult for Republicans to do. | ||
| So I don't really know what is going to happen with the shutdown after this, but I do know that the conversation around it is going to be very interesting tomorrow on Capitol Hill. | ||
| Let's go back to the Associated Press and the numbers for the Virginia governor's race. | ||
| It's now 91% of the votes in, and you can see Abigail Spanberger with 57% of that vote, about 43% for Winsom Earl Sears, the lieutenant governor under Glenn Youngkin and the Republican candidate here in 2025. | ||
| Here's what Winsom Earl Sears had to say to her supporters earlier tonight. | ||
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I'm really not even supposed to be here. | |
| Think about it. | ||
| I mean, I'm like an immigrant from another country, and yet you all have given me the opportunity to do this. | ||
| This is such an amazing thing for me. | ||
| Really, even when I had the protesters from the other side, I looked at them in wonder. | ||
| They thought they were hurting me, but they weren't, because I thought to myself, this is America. | ||
| It's amazing that we can protest each other and go home and cook dinner for the kids and not wonder who's coming to get us. | ||
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And we must never lose that. | |
| America is such a wonderful place. | ||
| I don't think we know that. | ||
| I'm watching people teach their children to hate their country. | ||
| Why would you do that? | ||
| Where else are you going to go? | ||
| And so I thank you. | ||
| I thank you for giving me this very great opportunity. | ||
| And it started, of course, when you gave my father the opportunity to come to this great country with, again, you heard me, his dollar at 75 cents. | ||
| And that's what started the trajectory of my life, where I became, of course, a Marine, a business owner, CEO of certain organizations, And then a delegate and now Lieutenant Governor, second in command. | ||
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I have to tell you, I am like everyone. | |
| I wanted to wait until every single ballot was counted just because I have faith. | ||
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And I wanted to wait. | |
| I wanted to wait because I know that God had called me for this purpose. | ||
| And so remember now that God has called prophets. | ||
| And sometimes the prophets were even beaten and some of them were killed. | ||
| And so we understand that victory to the Lord looks a lot different than what we think of as victory. | ||
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Victory starts with obedience. | |
| Obedience. | ||
| Never forget that. | ||
| So before I say anything else, although I've said everything, I want to thank you because you believed in me. | ||
| You who voted for me and who worked so hard to make our dream for Virginia come true. | ||
| I still want to continue to thank God for this journey and his grace that brought me again to this wonderful country, this wonderful Commonwealth. | ||
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And a special gratitude goes to my family, my wonderful husband of 39 years, and my wonderful children, Janelle and Kacha. | |
| Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earl Sears, the Republican candidate for governor in 2025, suffering a defeat tonight to Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate there, the former Congresswoman, former CIA agent. | ||
| and she is declared the winner by the Associated Press with 91% of the vote in. | ||
| You can see that Abigail Spamberger has a 14-point margin there. | ||
| And then moving on to Lieutenant Governor Gazala Hashmi, also declared the winner by the Associated Press earlier tonight. | ||
| She also with a sizable lead. | ||
| And then Jay Jones, the Attorney General. | ||
| It's Democrats all the way down the ticket here for Virginia tonight, Evan McMorris Santoro. | ||
| And the run legislature, too. | ||
| It's a trifecta at this point for Democrats in that state. | ||
| We're going to go now to New York City. | ||
| Andrew Cuomo is addressing his supporters. | ||
| Let's go live there. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. | |
| Thank you. You're taking my time. | ||
| You're taking my time. | ||
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First, let me let me. | |
| I love you too. | ||
| I love you too. | ||
| Let me acknowledge part of my special campaign team. | ||
| We have from the right Teleflundaval, the new son-in-law, husband of Mariah. | ||
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We have Mariah Cara Michaela. | |
| I want to thank our campaign chairman, Bill Mulro, our great campaign manager, Greg Goldner. | ||
| I want to thank Mayor Adams, who stepped out of the race to make us more competitive. | ||
| And that was a very gracious thing to do. | ||
| I want to thank Mayor Bloomberg, who gave us his support, Governor David Patterson, all the unions. | ||
| And I am blessed. | ||
| I am blessed to have the people in this room. | ||
| You have been a phenomenal team, great friends. | ||
| You are superstars. | ||
| Even more, you are New York Patriots. | ||
| This campaign, this campaign was the right fight to wage. | ||
| And I am proud of what we did and what we did together. | ||
| This campaign was to contest the philosophies that are shaping the Democratic Party, the future of this city, and the future of this country. | ||
| And this coalition transcended normal partisan politics. | ||
| It brought together Democrats and Republicans and Independents, joined by the simple fact that their first allegiance is as citizens of New York City. | ||
| Two million voters, the largest number in modern political history cared enough to show up in a municipal election. | ||
| And 42% voted for us on an independent line. | ||
| That is the highest percentage in modern history. | ||
| Ironically, it is just higher than when Mario Cuomo got 40% on an independent line against Ed Koch in 1977. | ||
| It's also important to note that almost half of New Yorkers did not vote to support a government agenda that makes promises that we know cannot be met. | ||
| We support an economy of jobs, of opportunity, of entrepreneurship. | ||
| That's what New York is, and that's what New York must remain. | ||
| We are a nation of laws, and we believe in law and order, and we need the police to keep society safe. | ||
| We will not make the NYPD the enemy. | ||
| We cherish our diversity. | ||
| And we have no tolerance for discrimination of any kind by race, religion, sexual orientation, or creed. | ||
| And we will not tolerate any behavior that fans the flames of anti-Semitism or diverse attacks. | ||
| Our strength, our strength is our unity. | ||
| Black, white, brown, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, we are one. | ||
| We are the family of New York. | ||
| We believe in interconnection and mutuality and codependence. | ||
| And you attack one of us, you attack all of us. | ||
| That is what it means to be a New Yorker. | ||
| No one and nothing will ever divide us. | ||
| And this campaign was necessary to make that point a caution flag that we are heading down a dangerous, dangerous road. | ||
| Well, we made that point and they heard us and we will hold them to it. | ||
| Also, my friends, feel proud because we accomplished the two important New York characteristics. | ||
| We got up off the mat after the primary and we made it a real race when the media had already commenced the coronation. | ||
| And feel proud because we fought our hearts out and we left it all on the field. | ||
| Congratulations to Zoran Mamdani. | ||
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No, no, no, no, no, no. | |
| No, no. | ||
| That is, no, that is not right. | ||
| That is not right. | ||
| And that is not us. | ||
| That is not us. | ||
| Tonight was their night. | ||
| And as they start to transition to government, we will all help any way we can because we need our New York City government to work. | ||
| We want it to work for all New Yorkers because our city is the greatest city in the world. | ||
| And we will unite for New York City because we love New York City. | ||
| And from the bottom of my heart, I thank each and every one of you. | ||
| I love you for the fight you made, for the soul that you showed, and the example that you set. | ||
| New York City heard us and we will be the better for it. | ||
| Thank you and God bless you. | ||
| Andrew Cuomo, former governor of New York, losing tonight to his bid for mayor of the largest city in the United States. | ||
| We are waiting now a victory speech by the mayor-elect, Zorhan Mamdani, who was declared the winner by the Associated Press. | ||
| There is his headquarters across the city in New York, and we're waiting for him to come out. | ||
| We expect it to be any moment now. | ||
| Evan McMorris Santoro, as we wait, the arms are waving in the air, and the flashes from the cameras have started. | ||
| The signs are going up. | ||
| I think he's coming out. | ||
| So let's go. | ||
| Let's go to his headquarters. | ||
| The music is playing for supporters of Zoram Mamdani. | ||
| They are all waiting for the mayor-elect to come out and address the crowd tonight. | ||
| He, with a resounding vote, was declared the winner by the Associated Press, getting more than 50% of the vote as it stands right now. | ||
| The whole vote's not in. | ||
| don't have 100% yet from the Associated Press, but Evan McMorris Centoro, we got a little bit of a false start there. | ||
| Looks like the arms have come down. | ||
| The signs aren't waving anymore. | ||
| So while we wait for him. | ||
| Well, I mean, these people have been patient for a long time. | ||
| They could have to wait a little bit longer, I guess, to hear it. | ||
| What did you make of his candidacy and the remarks that you heard there from the former governor? | ||
| Cuomo has had such an interesting campaign cycle because, you know, he was sort of out and gone, came back, and everyone just assumed he was going to be the mayor of New York. | ||
| That didn't happen. | ||
| He lost the primary. | ||
| And then he ran a very interesting general election campaign that sort of veered all over the place, right? | ||
| It ended this morning. | ||
| I think he was on Fox News thanking President Trump for his support. | ||
| It was really interesting. | ||
| And then in the end, in this concession speech, he took some shots at Mamdani, but then also did this big magnanimity. | ||
| We're all going to come together. | ||
| If you need me, if I can do anything, please give me a call. | ||
| This has kind of been what Cuomo's campaign has been like throughout the whole cycle, which is sort of, it can't really decide what it is, right? | ||
| Is he a fearmonger about Mamdani? | ||
| Maybe he can work with them. | ||
| Maybe he can figure that, maybe he supports some of the stuff he supports. | ||
| I think that this is sort of an ignominious end to a long political career. | ||
| Maybe there's more to come, but I do think that that speech from what I saw was there's a lot of folks who still want to be really, really angry about this election. | ||
| And Cuomo wants to give them some voice. | ||
| While he did also say to his credit, he did also say, look, we need to all come together and support the mayor. | ||
| It is clear that there are a lot of folks who are really nervous about this. | ||
| And Cuomo, I think, was happy to speak for them. | ||
| He also thanked Eric Adams, the current mayor who dropped out of the race. | ||
| Did he pick up the supporters of Eric Adams tonight? | ||
| Well, it does look like, right, as we look at these final numbers, as they become more and more final, that, you know, we talked about earlier about Sleewa's numbers did not come in very big, that maybe that did happen. | ||
| And I think that, you know, you can look, from what I've seen from what Cuomo's reporters have been talking about today and tonight, you can look at that Eric Adams thing is kind of almost a veiled attack on Sleebo for not dropping out. | ||
| Their belief was if it had been Mano Amano, Cuomo versus Mamdani, Cuomo would have gotten it. | ||
| I don't think that the final result suggests that that's true, but this is kind of the story and they're sticking to it. | ||
| We were just showing the numbers while you were talking and Curtis Sleewa coming in with around 145,000 votes with 90% votes in. | ||
| But when he ran in 2021, we heard New York won Spectrum News say he got over 300,000 votes. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| So whatever votes, like I said, whatever votes were really into stopping Mamdani, I think Cuomo picked them up. | ||
| The idea of a place like New York, which is not a very Republican place at all, a guy coming with just like, yeah, 100,000 votes, that's fine, but that's not enough to really sway an election where the guy who won won more than 50% in a three-way race. | ||
| It's a tough story for Cuomo, but I do think that you're seeing his supporters stick with this idea that they were kind of robbed of the opportunity to have the race that they wanted to run. | ||
| But they didn't. | ||
| Whatever happened, they didn't get it. | ||
| And now Mamdani is going to be the mayor. | ||
| And those folks have to figure out what they're going to do, right? | ||
| And there is a lot of question about do you continue to have this fight with Mamdani or do you look at the Democratic Party that has become so enamored with this guy in New York City and try to embrace them? | ||
| It is, in the end, a Democratic town. | ||
| And you're in a tough spot if your plan is to not be a Democrat. | ||
| Is he going to be the face of the Democratic Party? | ||
| The Republicans want him to be the face of the Democratic Party. | ||
| I would say if you were to call up Democrats leaders tomorrow, they would give you, well, we have three good options. | ||
| We have Mikey Sherrill in New Jersey. | ||
| We have Abigail Spanberger in Virginia. | ||
| And we've got Jerome Momdani in New York City. | ||
| Pick the one you want. | ||
| We've got them all, right? | ||
| But I do think that there are Republicans who are going to want that to happen. | ||
| They do feel like this is a very powerful thing that they can do. | ||
| But as I said before, I'm not clear on why that's such a great strategy for them. | ||
| We have not, I mean, Mamdani has just sort of been this unstoppable force since he arrived on the scene. | ||
| And it wasn't that long ago that when Eric Adams won the mayor's race in New York, this was supposed to be a sign, a national sign that this was the kind of candidate that Democrats needed to pick because this is the kind of candidate that voters wanted. | ||
| And now all of a sudden, when it becomes Mom Donnie who wins, is that this New York is this crazy outlier place and no one should pay any attention to it at all? | ||
| And it just goes to show that a lot of times people are just kind of naked up as they go along. | ||
| But I will say that it's not so much that Mamdani is the face of the Democratic Party, but he is absolutely now 100% the most famous progressive in America. | ||
| And everything he does will reflect on the progressive movement one way or the other. | ||
| Is he the leader? | ||
| I don't know if he's the leader. | ||
| I think that they would argue that the AOC and Bernie are still very powerful people. | ||
| But he's the one with the most sort of actual governing power is Mom Donnie. | ||
| And he has brought a bunch of new people into progressive politics. | ||
| And now he has to carry that on his shoulders. | ||
| He has to figure out how to actually produce results that benefit his movement and not stand in its way. | ||
| I think it's going to be a really interesting time in New York and also a very, very, very tough job for Mom Donnie. | ||
| Excuse me. | ||
| If you were a Bernie Sanders supporter during his presidential bids, what are you thinking tonight? | ||
| You're thinking that this is what you were saying should happen all along. | ||
| That what you were saying from the very beginning was if Democrats hadn't gotten in the way, if Democrats could, you know, establish Democrats had gotten out of the way, you could have an election about economics and affordability and trying to sort of rebalance the economy in a way that's a bit more fair to people who are really struggling right now. | ||
| This is the kind of politics that Bernie said he wanted to run, but would end up happening. | ||
| That's not the campaigns that he really kind of got to run for president. | ||
| But there is a case to be made here that this is actually kind of the maturing of that Bernie movement, that folks who are brought into politics by Bernie are now able to be as so talented at running it that they can actually create a situation where they can win a race like this. | ||
| So I think Bernie supporters are looking at this and saying this is exactly what we have been saying all along. | ||
| Let's tease the top of the hour because we are just a few minutes away from polls closing in California, 11 p.m. Eastern time. | ||
| CNN is reporting long lines in California with polls set to close in just minutes. | ||
| What do you think happens here if there are long lines in California on an off-year election for a ballot initiative? | ||
| Democrats say that that favors them, that this is what they wanted to see, that turnout favors them for this Prop 50, for this redistricting fight. | ||
| And this is one of those things where the voters are acting in a way that people would not have expected when this sort of thing kicked off, especially in a place like California, right? | ||
| There were some notions at the very beginning of this whole process. | ||
| And we haven't seen the results yet. | ||
| Know what's going to happen, but that they would be turned off entirely by the idea of partisan gerrymandering in a place where they really were proud of the fact that they didn't have it as much. | ||
| But it does seem that folks are either turning out in droves to defend it, which the polls have not suggested that that is true, or they are willing to abandon it because they feel like the elections have become unfair and that the figures are being put on the scales by the other side. | ||
| And that is not an outcome that anybody would have predicted last year. | ||
| We are waiting for the mayor-elect Zorhan Mamdani to address his supporters in New York City. | ||
| And we are just about a minute away from polls closing in California. | ||
| We're watching closely. | ||
| Proposition 50: Do California voters say yes or no to redrawing their congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterm elections? | ||
| Evan McMorris Santoro, Proposition 50 isn't just for 2026, though. | ||
| We're talking about the next three elections. | ||
| That's right, but it's also sort of a triggered, it's kind of this, it's triggered by what Republicans do. | ||
| It's this whole new approach that Democrats are having to take now when it comes to redistricting. | ||
| They say they have to take it because of what the Republicans are doing. | ||
| But we're having this, it is an absolute tectonic shift in the way politics works in this country because now we are talking about, we just draw the lines, I don't know how many times. | ||
| We just draw them every year, we draw them every month, I don't know. | ||
| But there is a situation where Democrats thought for a long time that if they led by example, they showed that, you know, they gave voters what they wanted, which was nonpartisan lines and districts that weren't these sort of crazy, you know, weird shapes, that they would be rewarded for that. | ||
| And then they're watching the Republicans do something different. | ||
| In Texas, it began. | ||
| Texas, and now, and a lot of Indiana, a lot of other states are talking about doing this. | ||
| And their Democrats sort of think to the great surprise, I would say probably of some Republicans who are planning this project are trying to come back and push back themselves. | ||
| Well, we already have a check mark. | ||
| This is the Associated Press calling the Proposition 50, it passes. | ||
| They're calling it right now, right as the polls closed 11 p.m. Eastern Time in California. | ||
| That's a big deal because California notoriously takes a very long time to count their votes. | ||
| So that's a pretty good win for them. | ||
| The Associated Press has seen enough seconds after 11 p.m. Eastern Time. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, that's it. | ||
| I mean, this is a huge deal for Gavin Newsom, right? | ||
| He's people think is going to run for president in 2028. | ||
| He put a lot on the line for this, but it also speaks to a kind of conversation Democrats have been having, which is that people really want them to fight. | ||
| They want a Democrat Party that fights. | ||
| That's kind of why we're in this long shutdown that we're in, is that the base has been demanding the Democrats fight as much as they can. | ||
| And Gavin Newsom is suggesting, fine, let's change some rules ourselves. | ||
| Let's change, you know, let's do some uncomfortable stuff to fight. | ||
| And obviously, the voters are rewarding him for making that decision. | ||
| And what does it mean for his political future? | ||
| Well, I would say that pretty much all the marbles were on this for him. | ||
| Had this failed, I don't think his 2028 prospects would be so good. | ||
| Now that they have, now that it has succeeded, it's a huge boon for him. | ||
| And I think it's a big moment to see, you know, he can sort of launch himself from this into a lot of other conversations because he is now kind of a de facto leader of this fight, right? | ||
| He has put this fight very strongly. | ||
| Trump has sued Trump a bunch of times. | ||
| They've fought him in court. | ||
| And now, you know, he made this deal with these Texas Democrats where they had, you know, they had fled the state. | ||
| They had to go home. | ||
| And he said, look, I'll do this ballot initiative to make up for the Republicans are doing in Texas. | ||
| You guys go home. | ||
| Big risk. | ||
| Worked out. | ||
| So, I mean, that's a good sign if anybody, you know, if you like Newsome or if you are Newsome, it's a good day for you. | ||
| So, Texas wants to redraw its maps, potentially pick up five California. | ||
| If Proposition 50 passes, they go forward with this. | ||
| It looks like they will. | ||
| Then predictions are potentially they pick up five in response to Texas. | ||
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That's the goal. | |
| And then, as you said, we're showing right now, our viewers, the California congressional districts. | ||
| And you can see here 43 Democrats, nine Republicans currently representing the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives under this proposed new map, 46 Democrats, four Republicans, and Cook political report saying the two of these Republican districts become toss-ups. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And this is what happens with a lot of these district lines when they get redrawn: you can't actually, you're not actually moving voters around. | ||
| At some point, you run out of like the ability to make these things completely partisan. | ||
| But what's interesting about this is that there's no pretense to any of this. | ||
| This is, we're going to elect five more Democrats and maybe more because Texas is trying to elect five more Republicans and maybe more. | ||
| This is the thing that if you are a voter and you don't like this, you're, I mean, your voting power is being taken away. | ||
| That's what this fight is. | ||
| This fight is we're going to sort all of you into partisan districts and we're going to have a nice, predictable election. | ||
| We're going to know exactly what's going to happen. | ||
| We won't even need to have a night like this. | ||
| You can look at these districts and we can just say, okay, well, they're going to get this many. | ||
| They're going to get this many. | ||
| This is a fight that's sort of happening in real time. | ||
| And as I said, Democrats feel like they have to actually respond. | ||
| But there is a question of the voters, when they see this map, when it's finally done across the whole United States, what are they going to think about this? | ||
| Are they going to like this? | ||
| Are they going to be happy with this? | ||
| Because, you know, this is a huge change to the way our process is supposed to work. | ||
| Well, Republicans are motivated to do this ahead of the 2026 midterm elections because of their margins in the House. | ||
| You have 219 Republicans, 213 Democrats, and three vacancies. | ||
| And I would say tonight, results would motivate them even further, right? | ||
| Because as we talked about before, historically, the midterms do not go well for the president's party. | ||
| They're trying to change that dynamic with a ton of money that they've raised. | ||
| They also had some sort of belief that the Democrats were in such bad straits that they could maybe beat them fair and square. | ||
| Now, I think if you're a person who thinks, well, let's just redraw the lines, let's change the rules of the election. | ||
| That makes it more likely that we can win because Democrats may have some fight in them. | ||
| I think that this gives momentum to that cause. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, California Proposition 50 passing tonight on your screen is the headquarters for Zorhan Mamdani. | ||
| He is the mayor-elect of the Big Apple, and you can see his supporters are anxious for him to come out and talk to them tonight. | ||
| They have been waiting for a long time. | ||
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David is sorry. | |
| Yeah, he's taking his time. | ||
| The crowd is warmed up, and we'll bring you those remarks live when they happen. | ||
| In the meantime, though, let's keep taking phone calls here. | ||
| Paulette, our exceptionally, actually, let's go to David, who's in Riverside, California, Republican. | ||
| David, in Riverside, California, how did you vote on Proposition 50? | ||
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Well, I always vote Republican, which would be against 50. | |
| But, you know, I want to say good evening, Greta, and good evening, America. | ||
| As a Zorhan Mamdani, the next mayor of New York City, he is the most dangerous candidate ever in America that I can see to win a major election. | ||
| I've done the research. | ||
| He won't deny globalizing the antifada, which is violence toward all Jews. | ||
| His father is a professor at Columbia University who advocates terrorist suicide bombing as a legitimate form of warfare. | ||
| Plus, Zoran is for LGBT transgender confused children receiving surgery to deny their gender. | ||
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He's a radical Muslim communist and queer right advocate. | |
| And one person, this is a warning to America that we need to return to the God of the Bible, return to the love of America. | ||
| Be more like Charlie Kurtz, who was a great political advocate and Christian preacher, who was assassinated for his free speech rights on September 10th, just under two months ago. | ||
| It's not too late for Mamdani and America. | ||
| It's not too late constitutionally because he is not eligible to be president. | ||
| He was not born in America. | ||
| We have yet to pick someone like Mom Donnie for president. | ||
| Fortunately, we have a second chance. | ||
| America is coming to the 250-year anniversary. | ||
| We can return to the people we were when we were founded, the Christian people that we were. | ||
| All right, David, there, Republican in California, Evan McMorrison, Toro. | ||
| Those remarks, you know, something that you heard on the campaign trail during this election. | ||
| There was actually a litany of things. | ||
| It was an interesting set of remarks because of how emotional and powerful it is. | ||
| And that is what a lot of this campaign has been about. | ||
| And the caller spoke about a number of topics that have been very potent and powerful for Republicans very recently. | ||
| In 2024, you know, they tied Kamal Harris to a lot of her past left-wing positions on economics and tied her to socialism. | ||
| And that was seen as a very powerful move. | ||
| Obviously, it did not work in New York City this time. | ||
| Different electorate, obviously, but did not really work. | ||
| The argument about trans rights, hugely powerful for Trump and the Republicans in 2024. | ||
| And as I mentioned, they really went hard at it up and down the ballot this evening and today and over the last few months. | ||
| They spent a lot of money on those issues, a lot of money in those ads. | ||
| My colleague at Notice Oriana Gonzalez wrote this amazing story about the sort of internals of that argument with how much money we should put into that fight. | ||
| Those trans rights, it was a huge part of the conversation. | ||
| Voters rejected the conservative position on that, right? | ||
| I don't know that they adopted the most left-wing position, but they rejected their conservative position on that. | ||
| And so, you know, and you talk about the issue of the anti-father, the Israeli issue. | ||
| Another issue that you talked about earlier in the night, another caller called in. | ||
| Voters are trying to shift around on that, too. | ||
| There are a lot of things moving around in politics right now. | ||
| And I can understand why there is such an emotional and really forceful response to that. | ||
| I mean, we're talking about very different things. | ||
| I mean, a super young guy with very left-wing views is now a very powerful person in America. | ||
| And if you don't like those views, it is definitely scary, but it does speak to just sort of how rapid the dynamics are changing at this moment, right? | ||
| Because you can think about how many people in America felt the same way in 2024 when Trump won again, right? | ||
| To hear that coming from the other side, it just speaks to how fast things can switch. | ||
| Democratic socialist versus the characterization that he's a communist. | ||
| The difference? | ||
| A difference is significant. | ||
| I mean, Democratic socialism is a program that's more about, you know, well, first of all, Mohamdani has distanced himself from the DSA itself. | ||
| Like, he's a member of it, but he doesn't adopt all of their ideas. | ||
| What he would say is that what he campaigns on is the idea of making your housing cheaper, making a cheaper place to live. | ||
| There was some stuff earlier on in the campaign, right, where one of his programs he has proposed is a pilot program where the city sets up some grocery stores in places where there aren't one. | ||
| This was characterized as, oh, he's going to force you to shop at government grocery stores, which would be communist. | ||
| He is not trying to do that. | ||
| He's Democratic socialist. | ||
| He wants to provide a different kind of option, a different kind of way of going. | ||
| But, you know, this is a very powerful word to a lot of people. | ||
| A communist is the word that the president has used about Momdani as well. | ||
| He is not a communist. | ||
| At least he's not. | ||
| I mean, I don't know what's in his head. | ||
| He has not espoused that he's a communist. | ||
| But this, you know, this is the kind of characterization that he's had to face, and it didn't defeat him tonight. | ||
| And we'll see what happens now that he's going to be the mayor. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And we're watching his headquarters in New York City, Zorhan Mamdani. | ||
| You can see his supporters getting addressed tonight and just waiting for the mayor-elect to come out. | ||
| And when he does, we'll bring you his remarks live here on C-SPAN. | ||
| We have other candidate remarks as well. | ||
| If we've missed any tonight, you can find them all on our website, c-span.org. | ||
| You can find results as well. | ||
| Dig into the maps on these key races on our website, c-span.org slash results. | ||
| All of it there. | ||
| And as we continue here on election night 2025, we'll continue to talk about the results in these key races, New Jersey, Virginia, the New York City mayoral race, and the California Proposition 50 redistricting plan that was just declared passed by the Associated Press just seconds after the polls closed at 11 p.m. Eastern Time in California. | ||
| I can see that at the headquarters there, the crowd is starting to cheer and cameras are flashing here. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| Oh, nope, nope. | ||
| We don't have the candidate. | ||
| We don't have the mayor-elect yet. | ||
| Evan McNor Centora. | ||
| He wants to hold out until we're just completely done talking about California. | ||
| Very nice. | ||
| Well, California went quick. | ||
| I know. | ||
| I know. | ||
| We need to have more time. | ||
| He has to come around. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Who do you expect that is there with him tonight from sort of the progressive wing of the party? | ||
| Well, we've seen AOC. | ||
| She's been a strong supporter of his. | ||
| Bernie has been a strong supporter. | ||
| I don't know if he is there. | ||
| But we have also seen some other sort of stalwart New York Democrats who are from the more progressive wing of the party, but are not sort of Democratic socialists. | ||
| Jerry Nadler was a strong supporter of his. | ||
| A lot of folks who ran for mayor against him, Brad Lander, for example, was a strong supporter of Mamdani. | ||
| So I think you're starting to see, at least from the Democratic Party part, his coalition starting to expand. | ||
| I wouldn't be too surprised if you saw some of those folks who definitely did not expect to find themselves in a Mamdani rally at the beginning of this thing showing up and being there. | ||
| What do some of these members of Congress do where their districts touch the city, different boroughs of New York City? | ||
| What do they do? | ||
| Because it's been not only leadership who's been split about whether or not they endorse or support. | ||
| You've seen the New York delegation also, you know, Democrats, not all of them endorsing Mamdani. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I mean, Tom Swazi, a very powerful Democrat, moderate Democrat, he specifically anti-endorsed Mamdani. | ||
| This is going to be, you know, I think if you're running in some of these districts that Republicans have won in the Congress in New York, they're very happy about this because they're going to want to tie their opponents to Mamdani right and left, and Democrats are going to have to figure that out. | ||
| I do think this is one of those things that now that conversation is almost more of a Mamdani question now, because now it's his job to help other Democrats win elections. | ||
| And now, in addition to everything else he has to do, he's got to figure out how to do that because they're there. | ||
| They're going to run for office. | ||
| They're going to say what they have to say, but he has to sort of show that he's not the dangerous radical that the caller suggested that he is. | ||
| And that way, he won't be such a liability to those folks if he ends up being that. | ||
| But this is the challenge for his movement. | ||
| And this is what makes it so interesting to see the next few months. | ||
| It's a challenge for him to figure out how to be helpful to Democrats who are like, I'd really rather you didn't come around too much. | ||
| Every television booker on networks across the country are hoping they can get him on program. | ||
| I think he's going to be very, very busy. | ||
| Maybe that's what he's doing right now. | ||
| That's why he doesn't come out here. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's election night 2025. | ||
| It's 11:15 here on the East Coast. | ||
| The polls just closed in California. | ||
| Proposition 50 has passed there. | ||
| Democrats have swept here tonight in all of these key races. | ||
| 26% of the vote in on this redistricting plan in California. | ||
| And yes, has a check mark next to it from the Associated Press with 62.3% of that 26% vote versus 37.7%. | ||
| Those numbers will change as the vote percentage changes tonight. | ||
| And you were saying, Evan McMorris and Toro, that this is super fast for California because it takes a long time to count votes. | ||
| I mean, think back to 2024. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| We're waiting all night for these little congress weeks for these congressional districts to bring their votes in. | ||
| No, I mean, the momentum was with this pretty much from the beginning. | ||
| There was a conversation in the very beginning about whether or not this was going to be fought very hard. | ||
| But when you saw some folks who like helped to draw the nonpartisan maps come out and say, I'm sorry, I had to support this idea of redistricting because the Republicans have changed the rules, you could sort of see this sort of building. | ||
| And again, this was the opportunity that Californians had to push back against the president's agenda. | ||
| And as we've seen everywhere else tonight, they got a chance to vote. | ||
| They have done that. | ||
| I mean, there are a lot of races down the ballot that we have seen where also that has happened. | ||
| Not everything has been called, but the results have come in from a lot of places have shown that Democrats have just every chance they had to ask someone to vote, those people said, okay, yeah, I'll vote for you because I'm mad at the president. | ||
| It does seem like that seems that that's happened everywhere. | ||
| And this result about these redistricting could not be any more clearly a pushback on the president. | ||
| That's how it was characterized by the supporters of this proposition. | ||
| That's what they said you were getting a chance to do. | ||
| And in fact, it is what you're getting a chance to do because it's the president that is leading this redistricting push across the country. | ||
| So this is a chance that you can push back against it. | ||
| Californians were really, really thrilled to do so, it seems. | ||
| Let's go through the key races tonight. | ||
| Beginning with Virginia and the governor's race there, Abigail Spamberger becomes the first female governor of the Commonwealth. | ||
| And you can see the percentage vote in 95% in her margin of victory. | ||
| Ghazala Hashmi, also on the Democratic ticket, she wins tonight. | ||
| And then for Attorney General, this race was being watched very closely to see if the Jay Jones, the Democrat there, would be able to get a victory, get a W. | ||
| And it appears he did. | ||
| Not a big a margin as Abigail Spamberger, but he did get the check mark tonight. | ||
| And then moving on to New Jersey and the governor's race, Mikey Sherrell becomes only the second female governor of that state. | ||
| And then ending here with California again, Proposition 50 passes in California. | ||
| And let's just go talk about the money for Proposition 50 because according to CalMatters.org, the yes campaign outrays the no campaign, like $97 million to $42 million. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| I mean, those numbers are very, very big, but obviously, California is really, really big. | ||
| But, you know, there were like billionaires that were backing the no campaign, too. | ||
| It's not that hard these days to kind of find money in politics. | ||
| But yeah, that, you know, that obviously appreciates the results in the end. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Dohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, is out on the stage. | ||
| He's going to address his supporters' live coverage here on C-SPAN. | ||
| The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity. | ||
| For as long as we can remember, the working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands. | ||
| Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms callous from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns. | ||
| These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power. | ||
| And yet, over the last 12 months, you have dared to reach for something greater. | ||
| Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it. | ||
| The future is in our hands. | ||
| My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. | ||
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I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life. | |
| But let tonight be the final time I utter his name as we turn the page on a politics that abandons the many and answers only to the few. | ||
| New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change, a mandate for a new kind of politics, a mandate for a city we can afford, and a mandate for a government that delivers exactly that. | ||
| On January 1st, I will be sworn in as the mayor of New York City. | ||
| So before I say anything else, I must say this. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you to the next generation of New Yorkers who refused to accept that the promise of a better future was a relic of the past. | ||
| You showed that when politics speaks to you without condescension, we can usher in a new era of leadership. | ||
| We will fight for you because we are you. | ||
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Or as we say on Steinway, anaminkum wailaikum. | |
| To those so often forgotten by the politics of our city who made this movement their own. | ||
| I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas, Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses, Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties. | ||
| Yes, aunties. | ||
| To every New Yorker in Kensington and Midwood and Hunts Point, know this: this city is your city, and this democracy is yours too. | ||
| This campaign is about people like Wesley, an 1199 organizer I met outside of Elmhurst Hospital on Thursday night, a New Yorker who lives elsewhere, who commutes two hours each way from Pennsylvania because rent is too expensive in this city. | ||
| It's about people like the woman I met on the BX 33 years ago who said to me, I used to love New York, but now it's just where I live. | ||
| And it's about people like Richard, the taxi driver I went on a 15-day hunger strike with outside of City Hall, who still has to drive his cab seven days a week. | ||
| My brother are in City Hall now. | ||
| This victory is for all of them. | ||
| And it's for all of you. | ||
| The more than 100,000 volunteers who built this campaign into an unstoppable force. | ||
| Because of you, we will make this city one that working people can love and live in again. | ||
| With every door knocked, every petition signature earned, and every hard-earned conversation, you eroded the cynicism that has come to define our politics. | ||
| Now I know that I have asked for much from you over this last year. | ||
| Time and again, you have answered my calls. | ||
| But I have one final request. | ||
| New York City, breathe this moment in. | ||
| We have held our breath for longer than we know. | ||
| We have held it in anticipation of defeat. | ||
| Held it because the air has been knocked out of our lungs too many times to count. | ||
| Held it because we cannot afford to exhale. | ||
| Thanks to all of those who sacrificed so much, we are breathing in the air of a city that has been reborn. | ||
| To my campaign team who believed when no one else did and who took an electoral project and turned it into so much more, I will never be able to express the depth of my gratitude. | ||
| You can sleep now. | ||
| To my parents, Mama and Baba, you have made me into the man I am today. | ||
| I am so proud to be your son. | ||
| And to my incredible wife, Rama. | ||
| Hayati, there is no one I would rather have by my side in this moment and in every moment. | ||
| To every New Yorker, whether you voted for me, for one of my opponents, or felt too disappointed by politics to vote at all, thank you for the opportunity to prove myself worthy of your trust. | ||
| I will wake each morning with a singular purpose to make this city better for you than it was the day before. | ||
| There are many who thought this day would never come, who feared that we would be condemned only to a future of less, with every election consigning us simply to more of the same. | ||
| And there are others who see politics today as too cruel for the flame of hope to still burn. | ||
| New York, we have answered those fears. | ||
| Tonight we have spoken in a clear voice. | ||
| Hope is alive. | ||
| Hope is a decision that tens of thousands of New Yorkers made day after day. | ||
| Volunteer shift after volunteer shift, despite attack ad after attack ad. | ||
| More than a million of us stood in our churches, in gymnasiums, in community centers, as we filled in the ledger of democracy. | ||
| And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together. | ||
| Hope over tyranny. | ||
| Hope over big money and small ideas. | ||
| Hope over despair. | ||
| We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible. | ||
| And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. | ||
| It is something that we do standing before you. | ||
| I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru A moment comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. | ||
| Tonight we have stepped out from the old into the new. | ||
| So let us speak now with clarity and conviction that cannot be misunderstood about what this new age will deliver and for whom. | ||
| This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt. | ||
| Central to that vision will be the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost of living crisis that this city has seen since the days of Fiorella Guardia. | ||
| An agenda that will freeze the rents for more than two million rent stabilized tenants. | ||
| Make buses fast and free. | ||
| And deliver universal child care across our city. | ||
| Years from now, may our only regret be that this day took so long to come. | ||
| This new age will be one of relentless improvement. | ||
| We will hire thousands more teachers. | ||
| We will cut waste from a bloated bureaucracy. | ||
| We will work tirelessly to make lights shine again in the hallways of NYCHA developments where they have long flickered. | ||
| Safety and justice will go hand in hand as we work with police officers to reduce crime and create a department of community safety that tackles the mental health crisis and homelessness crises head on. | ||
| Excellence will become the expectation across government, not the exception. | ||
| In this new age we make for ourselves, we will refuse to allow those who traffic in division and hate to pit us against one another. | ||
| In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light. | ||
| Here, we believe in standing up for those we love. | ||
| Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall, your struggle is ours too. | ||
| And we will build a city hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of anti-Semitism. | ||
| Where the more than one million Muslims know that they belong. | ||
| Not just in the five boroughs of this city, but in the halls of power. | ||
| Will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election? | ||
| This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another. | ||
| We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about. | ||
| For years, those in City Hall have only helped those who can help them. | ||
| But on January 1st, we will usher in a city government that helps everyone. | ||
| Now I know that many have heard our message only through the prism of misinformation. | ||
| Tens of millions of dollars have been spent to redefine reality and to convince our neighbors that this new age is something that should frighten them. | ||
| As has so often occurred, the billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30 an hour that their enemies are those earning $20 an hour. | ||
| They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long-broken system. | ||
| We refuse to let them dictate the rules of the game anymore. | ||
| They can play by the same rules as the rest of us. | ||
| Together, we will usher in a generation of change. | ||
| And if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. | ||
| After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. | ||
| And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. | ||
| This is not only how we stop Trump, it's how we stop the next one. | ||
| So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you. | ||
| Turn up! | ||
| Trumps of our city have grown far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants. | ||
| We will put an end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks. | ||
| We will stand alongside unions and expand labor protections because we know, just as Donald Trump does, that when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed. | ||
| New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, And as of tonight, led by an immigrant. | ||
| So here is it in Trump when I say this To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us. | ||
| When we enter City Hall in 58 days, expectations will be high. | ||
| We will meet them. | ||
| A great New Yorker once said that while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. | ||
| If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme and let us build a shining city for all. | ||
| And we must chart a new path as bold as the one we have already traveled. | ||
| After all, the conventional wisdom would tell you that I am far from the perfect candidate. | ||
| I am young despite my best efforts to grow older. | ||
| I am Muslim. | ||
| I am a democratic socialist. | ||
| And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this. | ||
| And yet, if tonight teaches us anything, it is that convention has held us back. | ||
| We have bowed at the altar of caution and we have paid a mighty price. | ||
| Too many working people cannot recognize themselves in our party. | ||
| And too many among us have turned to the right for answers to why they've been left behind. | ||
| We will leave mediocrity in our past. | ||
| No longer will we have to open a history book for proof that Democrats can dare to be great. | ||
| Our greatness will be anything but abstract. | ||
| It will be felt by every rent-stabilized tenant who wakes up on the first of every month. | ||
| Knowing the amount they're going to pay hasn't soared since the month before. | ||
| It will be felt by each grandparent who can afford to stay in the home they have worked for and whose grandchildren live nearby because the cost of child care didn't send them to Long Island. | ||
| It will be felt by the single mother who is safe on her commute and whose bus runs fast enough that she doesn't have to rush school drop-off to make it to work on time. | ||
| And it will be felt when New Yorkers open their newspapers in the morning and read headlines of success, not scandal. | ||
| Most of all, it will be felt by each New Yorker when the city they love finally loves them back. | ||
| Together, New York, we're going to freeze the. | ||
| Together, New York, we're going to make buses fast and together, New York, we're going to deliver universal. | ||
| Let the words we've spoken together, the dreams we've dreamt together, become the agenda we deliver together. | ||
| New York, this power, it's yours. | ||
| This city belongs to you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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| next mayor of New York City, the first Muslim American mayor of the Big Apple, with 90% of the vote in. | ||
| He has 50.4% of it. | ||
| Andrew Cuomo, the independent who challenged him for the mayoral seat with 41.6%. | ||
| And Curtis Liwa, the Republican, 7%. | ||
| Joining us is Evan McMorris Santoro of Notice. | ||
| And we've been talking about the outcome of this New York City mayoral race. | ||
| When you take a look at the candidate right there on stage, what do you think about the future of the Democratic Party? | ||
| I mean, this is a triumphant moment for this guy, right? | ||
| He feels, I mean, the power and energy of that speech was just very plugged in. | ||
| They're very excited, and they have a plan. | ||
| Now, he's running into headwinds almost immediately. | ||
| We saw the White House already post something, a version of the New York Knicks logo says, Trump is your president, obviously aimed at Mamdani. | ||
| Tomorrow morning, the New York Post is going to come out. | ||
| I think you can see that front page of the New York Post, which is just sort of like, it's just what's in store for him. | ||
| But this. | ||
| Yeah, let's just read through this. | ||
| On your marks, get set, Zoe, socialist Mamdani wins race for the mayor. | ||
| Talk about this picture here. | ||
| Well, this is everything that Trump and the Republicans and his opponents have been saying about him. | ||
| This is a communist takeover of New York City, the red apple with the R backwards. | ||
| This is a, you know, he has a lot of hard work to do now that he has won. | ||
| But I do think that when it comes to the speech that we just heard, he sounds like a guy who's sort of aware of this. | ||
| Like his movement is ready to have this argument and ready to have this fight. | ||
| He said in his speech, people who have, you know, our expectations are very high for us, and we're going to beat those expectations. | ||
| We're going to do this. | ||
| We know exactly what we're up against, and we're going to try and we're going to actually show that we can do it. | ||
| And this is the vision for the Democratic Party that his side of politics wants to have. | ||
| They want to show that they are folks who can bring a coalition together, win, and then as everybody calls them all kinds of names, they can sort of slough that off and get down to it and get things done that they want to get done. | ||
| And this is a huge moment for that politics, but also a huge burden for Zorhan Mamdani because everybody is going to be coming for this guy. | ||
| Want to show that he doesn't know what he's doing and he's failing and he's faltering, but he is saying we're ready to do. | ||
| We understand that. | ||
| We're ready to go. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| Let's hear from Joseph, who's in Brooklyn, independent voter. | ||
| Joseph, who did you vote for? | ||
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Mamdani. | |
| And what did you hear tonight from the mayor-elect? | ||
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He's amazing. | |
| And the main thing I vote for him, and I think why most people voted for him, is something that there's no polls out there about that. | ||
| But there was multiple demonstrations, all colleges in New York, especially, about the Palestinian in Gaza. | ||
| And he supported him. | ||
| So people in their heart, they remember what's going on, even there's peace right now. | ||
| People support people who support weakness people, the people who suffer in Gaza. | ||
| That's why I think people came out to support him. | ||
| All right, let's take that point. | ||
| There's been a great deal of polling about it, actually, and it has shown that Democrats in particular, but young people across the political spectrum, have shifted away from the traditional way that American politicians have spoken about the nation of Israel. | ||
| There's been much more skepticism about the regime there, talks about trying to change the government U.S. policy towards that country. | ||
| I do think it was a huge sort of door opener for Zoro Mamdani. | ||
| Basically, what happened with this, he was the only candidate who stood up there and said very loudly what the streets were kind of saying about this issue. | ||
| And that opened the door for him to talk about everything else that he wanted to talk about. | ||
| I mean, I think it's a very, very important part of his campaign. | ||
| And I don't know if we mentioned this before, but some of the folks who have worked in this campaign that also worked for Obama have mentioned the idea that this is kind of like the Iraq war moment, that voters instantly believe you more because you have credibility in this issue where a lot of other politicians kind of sound wishy-washy or aren't on the right side. | ||
| He walks in saying, I believe in the Palestinian cause. | ||
| And folks go, oh, okay. | ||
| Well, what else do you want to talk about? | ||
| And well, now I believe you. | ||
| I think it was a big part of his victory. | ||
| And it's one of the things that other candidates, Democrats, are taking away from this. | ||
| You are seeing a number of other Democrats shifting their position and shifting the rhetoric about Israel in the wake of the primary win and just the sheer total of polling that has shown that young Americans just feel very differently about this than their parents did. | ||
| Democrats also successful tonight in California. | ||
| Steve is in Anaheim, a Republican. | ||
| Steve, what's your reaction to the Proposition 50 passing in California? | ||
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Hello, Greta. | |
| Looks like you're pulling a long-nighter here. | ||
| Okay, well, let me do a little of your New York candidate first. | ||
| He mentioned, because I listened to his speech, he mentioned Guardi, Goguarde, God, can I just say that guy's name right? | ||
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But he didn't mention Jinkins. | |
| These were two socialist Democrats that ran New York. | ||
| I forget the third mayor that ran it as well. | ||
| So everybody needs to kind of lighten up on the communist and socialist attacks on this guy. | ||
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I mean, we don't know. | |
| His speech sounded pretty good, but it also sounded like, you know, he's promising way too much. | ||
| He doesn't have like an Adli Addison to implement his policies like FDR did. | ||
| But we will see. | ||
| Now, as far as the proposition on 50 that passed over here, looks like we got trunched. | ||
| It looks like two-thirds of the voters voted for this thing. | ||
| So, you know, the Democrats claim that they're for democracy, but they're basically taking all the Republicans' votes that are in the city or city, excuse me, state, and ignoring them. | ||
| So I don't really think this is going, I think it's going to come back and bite them in the ass, to be perfectly honest with you. | ||
| All right, Steve saying Republicans got trounced on Proposition 50. | ||
| 64% of the vote in the yes vote leading 64.6% of that, 35.4% of that, of those 64% votes in no votes. | ||
| Yeah, if that holds, then trounced is the right word. | ||
| The caller, two things from that call are very interesting. | ||
| One, it just goes to show that as we talk about so many folks sitting here, not sitting here, but talking in politics now about, oh, New York, who cares? | ||
| Guy in California knows a lot about what's going on in New York, and a lot of other people across the country do too. | ||
| This is a huge moment in politics, this Mom Donnie Wynn. | ||
| It really is. | ||
| The other thing that's interesting, he mentioned this idea that Democrats are taking away the votes of Republicans in this registraring thing. | ||
| He's exactly right. | ||
| That's what this whole registrarizing fight is about. | ||
| It is about taking individual voters' power away and pushing people into partisan groups to help to bolster one party or another. | ||
| Democrats point to the fact that Republicans kind of started it this time, and so this is why they have to do it. | ||
| That's the whole Prop 50's idea. | ||
| But his notion of will voters not like this or become very upset about this as they sort of see how this develops, it's a huge political question moving forward. | ||
| It really, really is, because he's not wrong. | ||
| They are absolutely trying to say, we don't really care what you believe personally. | ||
| We believe that you live around enough Democrats that we can just make a Democratic seat over here. | ||
| And Republican make a Republican seat over here. | ||
| It's a very different way of looking at how the House of Representatives is supposed to work, but it's one that's aimed at simply numbers and running our system in a very different way. | ||
| And I don't know what voters are going to say about it as it plays out. | ||
| But today, what they're saying is Republicans are doing it, so we are also going to do it. | ||
| And any moment, we're going to hear from California Governor Gavin Newsom, who pushed for Proposition 50. | ||
| We will be able to capture and bring to you his live remarks here from California. | ||
| While we wait, we've got time here for some more phone calls this evening. | ||
| Democrats dial in at 202-748-8920. | ||
| Republicans 202-748-8921. | ||
| And all others, 202-748-8922. | ||
| Paulette in Florida, Democratic caller, your reaction, Paulette, to Election Night 2025. | ||
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I'm so excited and hopeful and prayerful. | |
| We're not worried about the New York Post because we already know that a handful of billionaires control the media and the papers and the cable news. | ||
| But let Mamdani Wynn be a wake-up call to the Republicans and Democrats that cater to these rich corporations while making every regular working person poor. | ||
| There is health care. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And Paulette, I'm going to go to California, the governor, Gavin Newsom, addressing the microphone. | ||
| Well, good evening, everybody. | ||
| And let me underscore, it's been a good evening for everybody, not just the Democratic Party. | ||
| But what a night for the Democratic Party. | ||
| A party that is in its ascendancy. | ||
| A party that's on its toes no longer on its heels from coast to coast, sea to shining sea. | ||
| But it was not just a victory tonight for the Democratic Party. | ||
| is a victory for the United States of America, for the people of this country and the principles that our founding fathers lived and died for. | ||
| And so we're proud. | ||
| We're proud here in California to be part of this narrative this evening. | ||
| We're proud of the work that the people of the state of California did tonight to send a powerful message to an historic president. | ||
| Donald Trump is an historic president. | ||
| He is the most historically unpopular president in modern history. | ||
| In every critical category, Donald Trump is underwater. | ||
| He promised to make us healthier. | ||
| He promised to make us wealthier. | ||
| We're sicker and poorer. | ||
| And he fundamentally understands that. | ||
| Why else? | ||
| Why else would he call Greg Abbott saying he's entitled to five seats? | ||
| Why else is he trying to rig the midterm elections before one single vote is even cast? | ||
| He understands his position at this moment in the United States of America. | ||
| One thing he never counted on, though, was the state of California. | ||
| Instead of agonizing over the state of our nation, we organized in an unprecedented way in a 90-day sprint. | ||
| People from all over the United States of America contributed their voices and their support for this initiative. | ||
| We stood tall and we stood firm in response to Donald Trump's recklessness. | ||
| And tonight, after poking the bear, this bear roared with an unprecedented turnout in a special election with an extraordinary result. | ||
| None of us, however, are naive. | ||
| This is a pattern. | ||
| This is a practice. | ||
| Donald Trump's efforts to rig the midterm election continue to this day. | ||
| And I'll reinforce that in just a moment. | ||
| You're seeing him take action all across this country, not just in Texas. | ||
| You saw what they were successfully able to do in Missouri, what they did in North Carolina, what they're trying to do in Indiana and inevitably in Florida. | ||
| They are not screwing around. | ||
| In June of this year, we saw 4,000 National Guard federalized in the state of California. | ||
| We saw 700 active duty Marines not sent overseas, but sent to the second largest city in the United States of America to militarize our streets. | ||
| We said in June this was a preview of things to come. | ||
| What more evidence do you need than what happened in Washington, D.C., what's happening up in Portland, cities like Chicago? | ||
| When we kicked off this campaign just 90 or so days ago in Little Tokyo in Southern California, in LA at the Democracy Center, Donald Trump sent Greg Bovino. | ||
| He sent his private police force that increasingly appears to have taken an oath of office to Donald Trump, not to the Constitution of the United States. | ||
| He sent them to our kickoff rally to chill free expression, to chill free speech, to intimidate people from participating. | ||
| Just today, In Los Angeles, Donald Trump called up the Border Patrol, sent them to Dodger Stadium, and threw a fastball at free speech, right at the head, free expression, to suppress the vote in America's second largest city. | ||
| Just did that today. | ||
| People in tactical gears sent out to intimidate a community that is already on edge. | ||
| But you see, as we speak, people are still in line. | ||
| People waiting up three hours to cast their vote, to send a message to Donald Trump. | ||
| No crowns, no thrones, no kings. | ||
| That's what this victory represents. | ||
| It's a victory for the people of the state of California and the United States of America. | ||
| And this is a victory that's punctuated with a sober reminder that it's not just the actions that Donald Trump has taken to federalize our guard, to begin the process of militarizing American cities, to intimidate free expression and speech by utilizing ICE and Border Patrol in American cities. | ||
| But he also announced today, right when polls were opening, that this election was rigged. | ||
| That this election was rigged. | ||
| Of course, those are familiar words. | ||
| It's exactly what Donald Trump said after January 6th, that day of love, where he tried to light democracy on fire. | ||
| He tried to wreck this country. | ||
| And he called in to the Secretary of State in Georgia, calling up for 11,000, 12,000 votes, just like he called Greg Abbott, saying he's entitled to those five seats. | ||
| He said this election was rigged and he's moving to look for criminal prosecution and investigations at the Department of Justice. | ||
| He is not screwing around. | ||
| So tonight, I'm proud, but I'm very mindful and sober of the moment we are living in. | ||
| Donald Trump does not believe in fair and free elections, period, and full stop. | ||
| This is not complicated, and it's self-evident to anyone paying attention. | ||
| You start to stack up all of these actions that continue to this moment and will continue in moments to come. | ||
| If you think I'm exaggerating, consider his announcement just a few weeks ago to send rapid response teams all across the United States in all 50 states, tens of thousands of members of the military prepared for urban deployment, a preview of things to come. | ||
| But back to this state. | ||
| Our state of mind was resolute. | ||
| Our state of mind was resolved to stand firm and to stand tall, to not be intimidated, to not be humiliated, to not fall prey to cynicism, to not fall prey to fear and the anxiety of someone that believes in only one thing, shock and awe, to intimidate and exhaust us. | ||
| But we're seeing all across this country, 7 million people strong standing up, not just for themselves, but for each other and for these enduring and historic principles of our founding fathers. | ||
| And I'll end on that. | ||
| Next year is the 250th anniversary of the best of Roman Republic, the best of Greek democracy. | ||
| This fundamental notion of a system of checks and balances, a popular sovereignty, the rule of law, Mr. President, the rule of law, not the rule of dawn. | ||
| And I hope it's dawning on people. | ||
| The sobriety of this moment. | ||
| What's at stake? | ||
| Tonight, as I said, is an extraordinary moment for our party, but again, It's an extraordinary moment affirming those principles. |