Election outcomes reside: Trump left to lick wounds as Mamdani and Newsom savor enormous night time for Democrats

Before the ballots were counted last night, the Comedy Central show’s hosts Jordan Klepper and Ronny Chieng assessed the candidates’ final messages to voters and took issue with Andrew Cuomo showing off his lucky SUV, which just so happens to be a very similar model to that used by OJ Simpson in his notorious 1994 break for freedom.

The president moved quickly last night to distance himself from a dire slate of election results for Republicans across the country and to demand his party finally end the government shutdown and “get back to passing legislation.”

And you can see why.

Discussing a disastrous night for conservatives on Sean Hannity’s primetime Fox News show, two right-leaning pollsters were in no doubt about why it had come about.

“Shutdown, shutdown, shutdown,” said Matt Towery. “That had a big effect on this election. We saw many Republicans start to go down as the weeks continued to go with the shutdown. Tomorrow, the legacy media is going to say it was Donald Trump. It’s not. It was the shutdown.”

“The shutdown is everything,” agreed Robert Cahaly. “You’ve got so many people who depend on the government for either aid or a paycheck and when that is stopped they’re going to blame the party in power. And when the Republicans have the House, the Senate and the president, they don’t understand all the details of [the] filibuster – they understand the Republicans are in control and that check’s in jeopardy.

“And so when that check is in jeopardy, when that aid is in jeopardy and whether it’s actually in jeopardy or whether they just perceive it’s in jeopardy, they’re going to vote their pocketbook even if they, ideologically, feel a little different way.”

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Republicans, particularly recently pardoned ex-congressman George Santos, have been fuming at their official nominee for refusing to suspend his campaign to give Cuomo a clear shot at Mamdani, accusing Sliwa of splitting the vote.

But would his departure from the race really have been enough to beat the progressive?

Prominent Israeli politicians have attacked Mamdani’s victory, claiming that his views are “not far from those of the fanatic jihadists” who carried out the October 7 attacks.

Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs and combating anti-Semitism, describe Mamdani’s victory as a “turning point” for New York.

“A supporter of Hamas, someone whose views are not far from those of the fanatic jihadists who murdered three thousand people 25 years ago,” Chikli continued.

Avigdor Liberman, chairman of the Yisrael Beytenu opposition party, branded Mamdani as a “racist.”

“Just three decades after the Twin Towers disaster, New York has elected a racist, populist, and openly Shiite Islamist as its mayor,” Liberman wrote.

Neither politician gave evidence for their claims against Mamdani.

Earlier in the campaign, Mamdani said that Hamas had committed a “horrific war crime,” but also condemned Israeli activity in Gaza.

During his victory speech, Zohran Mamdani spoke directly to his wife, Rama Duwaji.

“To my incredible wife, Rama, hayati,” he said, using the Arabic word for “my life.” “There is no one I would rather have by my side in this moment, and in every moment.”

Duwaji has appeared with her husband throughout the election, but Mamdani says that his wife is an “incredible artist who deserves to be known on her own terms.”

She was born in Texas but grew up in the Persian Gulf.

Upon returning to the U.S. and studying at Virginia Commonwealth University, she moved to New York City.

While living in NYC, she met her future husband, a little-known assemblyman, on the dating app Hinge.

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Trump has ducked the blame for the devastating losses suffered by the Republicans on November 4.

The GOP was defeated in two gubernatorial races, the NYC mayor race and California passed a bill which could give Democrats five seats in the House of Representatives.

“‘TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,’ according to Pollsters,” the president raged on Truth Social.

His post came minutes after Zohran Mamdani was announced as the winner of the NYC race.

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According to the current results, Mamdani still would have won the election even if every Curtis Sliwa voter had cast their ballot for Andrew Cuomo.

At the moment, 97.1 percent of the votes are in with Mamdani winning 1,029,196 of the vote share.

Meanwhile, Cuomo is sitting on 849,816 votes and Sliwa has taken home 145,543.

During the election, Mamdani’s critics encouraged Sliwa to drop out in order to turn Cuomo into an anti-Mamdani vote.

However, according to these figures, that still would not have been enough to swing the vote in Cuomo’s direction.

Combining Sliwa and Cuomo’s support would have yielded the former New York governor 995,359 votes.

That would leave with a deficit of 33,837 votes if he wanted to beat Mamdani.

Gavin Newsom says that Donald Trump is “underwater” in “every critical category.”

“He promised to make us healthier and he promised to make us wealthier,” Newsom said. “We’re sicker and poorer. And he fundamentally understands that.

“Why else, why else would he call Greg Abbot saying he’s entitled to five seats?

“Why else is he trying to rig the midterm elections before one vote is even cast?”

Newsom added that he believes that Trump did not “count” on Californians voting to pass Proposition 50.

Aftab Pureval has defeated J.D. Vance’s half brother, Cory Bowman, in the Cincinnati mayor’s race.

Pureval’s re-election has cemented the Democrats’ control of Cincinnati’s government.

Bowman is the founder of The River Church, a Christian worship group which has been accused of encouraging its congregants to speak in tongues.

Vance shares a father with Bowman, although the pair did not grow up together. They eventually reconnected when Vance was 13 years old.