Election outcomes reside: Trump allies rip ‘horrible’ candidate as Democrats pummel Republicans in essential elections

Polls have closed in New York, Minnesota, Colorado and Texas as of 9pm ET.

All eyes are on the New York City mayoral race where democratic socialists Zohran Mamdani has become a rising political star.

Shortly before closing time, the New York City Board of Elections announced that a record breaking two million voters cast their ballots.

Democrat Mikie Sherrill has bested Republican Jack Ciattarelli to become the next governor of New Jersey.

Her win robs Republicans of the party’s best chance of an upset this election night.

The race was called a little before 9:30 p.m., an hour and a half after polls in the Garden State closed.

New York restaurateur Keith McNally announced he will offer a free glass of champagne if Zohran Mamdani wins the mayor’s race.

‘I think today’s election for Mayor of New York is one of the most important elections ever held in America,’ he said.

‘If, at one point tonight, it looks like Mamdani is going to win, all customers and staff at Balthazar, Morandi and MInetta NY will be offered a glass of champagne on the house.’

State Senator Ghazala Hashmi won the race for Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor’s office.

She is the first Muslim woman elected to a statewide office in the country.

Hashmi defeated Republican talk-radio host John Reid, who was the first openly gay man to receive a major party’s endorsement for statewide office in Virginia.

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani appears to have defeated former governor Andrew Cuomo for the New York City Mayor’s race, according to the Decision Desk HQ.

Speaking to supporters in Richmond on Tuesday, Spanberger noted that America’s founding fathers didn’t choose to call Virginia a Commonwealth by accident.’

‘They chose it to signify that our government would be based on the power of the people — united for a common good, not for a political party, not for a president, not for a monarch, but for the common good together,’ she added.

Spanberger’s victory stands as a significant boost for Democrats in a state that has become increasingly competitive in recent years.

Shortly before the polls close at 9pm ET, the New York City Board of Elections announced that a record breaking two million voters cast their ballots.

It is the first time since 1969 that two million voters turned out.

The board also said if you are on line when polls close at 9pm, you will be allowed to vote.

Donald Trump’s 2024 co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita said the Virginia’s Governor race is an example of why picking the right candidate is important.

‘A Bad candidate and Bad campaign have consequences – the Virginia Governors race is example number 1,’ he said.

New York City Comptroller Brad Landers slammed Donald Trump for his Truth Social post calling Jewish voters who support Zohran Mamdani for mayor ‘stupid.’

‘I’m the highest ranking Jewish elected official in New York City government,’ Landers told NBC News.

‘[Trump] said any Jew that supports Zohran Mamdani is stupid. He doesn’t get to decide how Jews make up their mind in this race. New Yorkers don’t want Donald Trump telling us who to vote for.’

Landers lost to Mamdani in the Democratic primary for mayor and has since endorsed his one-time opponent.

Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams said on X that his office has been receiving complaints from people hoping to vote today, despite there being no election.

‘We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today,’ he said.

‘Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry.’

Cory Bowman, a Republican who is Vice President JD Vance’s half-brother, lost the Cincinnati mayoral race to incumbent Democrat Aftab Pureval.

Pureval was first elected mayor in 2021.

Democrat Mikie Sherrill appears to have defeated Republican Jack Ciattarelli for the New Jersey Governor’s race, according to the Decision Desk HQ.

Sherrill is a four-term US representative and former Navy helicopter pilot who beat a crowded field for the Democratic nomination

Ciattarelli is a former state assemblyman and small business owner backed by Trump.

New Jersey’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Representative Mikie Sherrill has an edge with independent voters, exit polls show.

She bests Republican hopeful Jack Ciattarelli 52 percent to 45 percent, according to CNN.

That puts Sherrill in prime position to win the race, which was the Republicans’ best chance of an upset this election night.

In a private 2022 exchange with Republican Delegate Carrie Coyner, Democratic Attorney General candidate Jay Jones shockingly suggested that his political rival, then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert, deserved to be brutally murdered.

‘Three people, two bullets,’ Jones wrote in the text obtained by Fox News. ‘Gilbert, Hitler, and Pol Pot.’

‘Gilbert gets two bullets to the head,’ the former member of the Virginia House of Delegates continued.

‘Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time.’

Democrat Abigail Spanberger has stormed to victory in Virginia‘s gubernatorial race, securing a decisive win that serves as a pointed brushback to Donald Trump‘s second term.

The former congresswoman and ex-CIA officer handily defeated Republican Winsome Earle-Sears, the incumbent lieutenant governor of Virginia, according to the Associated Press.

Spanberger is set to become the first female governor in Virginia history, succeeding Glenn Youngkin, who rode frustration with the Biden administration to power back in 2021.

Online prediction market Kalshi has estimated that Zohran Mamdani has a 92 percent chance of winning the New York City mayoral race.

The polls in New Jersey closed at 8pm ET and results are expected to come in quickly.

Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli are fighting to succeed term-limited Democratic Governor Phil Murphy.

Polls also closed in Maine, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas.

The race for attorney general in Virginia has yet to be called as Democrats look to be running away with the other two statewide races Tuesday evening.

With 26 percent of the vote in from across the Commonwealth, Virginia’s incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares was shown to be down 2.4 percent to his opponent, Democrat Jay Jones.

Jones was plunged into scandal after the publication of texts he sent wishing death on the then-Republican speaker of the Virginia House of Representatives were made public.

Miyares was shown to be up four points, 46 percent to Jones’ 42 percent in a Suffolk University poll conducted from October 19th to 21st.

Vice President JD Vance’s half-brother Cory Bowman is on the ballot today running for Cincinnati mayor.

Polls closed at 7:30pm ET in Cincinnati where Bowman is the first Republican to run for mayor in the Ohio city since 2009.

He is running against Democratic incumbent Mayor Aftab Pureval.

Voters in the Golden State are considering a Democratic proposal that could erase as many as five Republican districts.

California’s Proposition 50 asks voters to suspend House maps drawn by an independent commission and replace them with rejiggered districts adopted by the Democratic-controlled Legislature. Those new districts would be in place for the 2026, 2028 and 2030 elections.

The measure has been spearheaded by Governor Gavin Newsom, who has thrown the weight of his political operation behind it in a major test of his mettle ahead of a potential 2028 presidential campaign.

New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill and Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Abigail Spanberger shared a DC apartment since they were elected to Congress in the 2018 blue wave.

Nearly one million New Yorkers are preparing to flee the city should democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani win the race for mayor, a poll has found.

Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli are fighting to succeed term-limited Democratic Governor Phil Murphy.

While New Jersey has been a reliably blue state in Senate and presidential election years, it has shown signs of shifting toward the Republican Party.

Sherrill is a four-term US representative and former Navy helicopter pilot.

She beat a crowded field for the Democratic nomination and was leading the race in a compilation of polls collected by Real Clear Politics over the weekend.

Ciattarelli is a former state assemblyman and small business owner backed by Trump.

This is his third run for governor, and he lost a surprisingly close race to Murphy in 2021.

Former congresswoman and ex-CIA officer Abigail Spanberger appears to have handily defeated Republican Winsome Earle-Sears, the incumbent lieutenant governor of Virginia, according to Decision Desk.

Virginia will make history Tuesday by electing it’s first female governor succeeding Glenn Youngkin, who rode frustration with the Biden administration to power back in 2021.

The last time a Republican candidate won the Virginia governor’s race while there was a Republican in the White House was 1973, when Mills E. Godwin Jr. captured the governorship during Richard Nixon’s presidency.

Zohran Mamdani, 34, met his illustrator wife Rama Duwaji, 28, on the dating app Hinge.

She is best known for her illustrations and animations, many of which are pro-Palestine themed and criticize Israel and the Trump administration.

Polls have just closed in Virginia, and the state typically reports its results quickly.

In recent elections, the state has reported that around 90 percent of its votes were counted within three hours of the polls closing, according to reports.

In New York, the polls will close at 9pm ET, and the Board of Elections is expected to release results as they are calculated.

They will likely provide regular updates of the results online.

Polls will close in New Jersey at 8pm ET, and they are also know for sharing results quickly after.

Polls have closed in Virginia where voters are deciding who will be the state’s first female governor.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger, 46, and Republican Winsome Earle-Sears, 61, are battling it out to replace term-limited Governor Glenn Youngkin.

Voters are also determining if Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares should get another term or if Democratic challenger Jay Jones should replace him. All 100 seats in the House of Delegates also are up for election.

Earlier today, Donald Trump claimed any Jewish voter in New York City who casts a ballot for Zohran Mamdani is a ‘stupid person.’

‘Any Jewish person that votes for Zohran Mamdani, a proven and self-professed JEW HATER, is a stupid person!!!’ he wrote on Truth Social.

Several hours later, the president praised Jewish voters in New Jersey who supported Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli for governor.

‘I just heard that 32,000 Orthodox Jews around Lakewood and Jackson, New Jersey, have showed up BIG for Jack Ciattarelli,’ Trump said.

‘My friends in this Great Community know how important this Election is to New Jersey, and to our Country. There is still time to vote!’

He added, ‘I am asking ALL PATRIOTIC CITIZENS OF THE GREAT STATE OF NEW JERSEY, including all Kollel and Yeshiva students who haven’t voted yet, to please GET OUT AND VOTE FOR JACK CIATTARELLI. You can win this Election for Jack! VOTE FOR JACK, WHO HAS MY COMPLETE AND TOTAL ENDORSEMENT.’

The president is typically eager to endorse candidates he believes can win, and he even spent much of the last 24 hours firing off endorsements on his Truth Social app.

Whenever a candidate he backs does win, Trump has been quick to take credit, in part, for lending the aspiring politico his MAGA brand.

Though as the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia come to a close, and conservative candidates Jack Ciattarelli and Winsome Earle-Sears continue to trail in most polls, the president has decided to forgo any last-minute campaign stops to bail them out.

Instead, Trump is opting to campaign from home.

Virginia voters are making history as they cast their ballots to elect the state’s first female governor.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger, 46, and Republican Winsome Earle-Sears, 61, are battling it out to replace term-limited Governor Glenn Youngkin.

If elected, Earle-Sears, who is the state’s current lieutenant governor, would also make history as the first black woman elected governor in any state.

Earle-Sears was born in Jamaica and immigrated to the US at the age of six, according to her campaign website.

She served in the Marine Corps and was the first black female elected to statewide office.

Her policies include cutting government spending and lowering taxes, being ‘tough on crime’ and deporting criminal illegal immigrants. She also opposes allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports.

Spanberger, a former congresswoman, was born in New Jersey, and she started her career as a postal inspector before becoming a CIA case officer.

She has campaigned on lowering healthcare costs and addressing housing affordability through policies such as incentivizing the construction of starter homes.

She has also pledged to defend women’s reproductive rights by codifying them in the state’s constitution.

Democratic strategist Mally Smith, former Senior Political and Coalitions Advisor for the Kamala Harris campaign in North Carolina, told the Daily Mail that he has been ‘hearing rural Republican turnout is incredibly low in Virginia.’

If this continues to hold true, Democrats are going to have a great night up and down the ballot,’ Smith added.

Polls close in Virginia at 7:00 PM EST.

Virginia will make history Tuesday by electing it’s first female governor.

As voters began to cast their ballots this morning, several polling precincts in New Jersey were closed due to bomb threats.

‘Law enforcement responded to threats that were received by email,’ in seven different counties, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin wrote in a statement on X.

The threats involved polling places in Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Passaic counties.

Some of the locations were quickly cleared and reopened, according to authorities.

Lieutenant Governor Tahesha Way, who also serves as the state’s top election official, said, ‘Law enforcement has determined that there are no credible threats at this time.’

‘We are doing everything in our power to protect voters and poll workers and coordinate closely with state, local and federal partners to ensure a smooth and safe election.’

At least one juvenile was arrested for sending text message bomb threats against the Livingston Park Elementary School polling location in North Brunswick.

The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s office said in a statement that North Brunswick police took an ‘unidentified juvenile’ into custody.

As of 6pm ET, 1,748,698 voters had cast their ballots in the Big Apple, according to the NYC Board of Elections.

That number also includes the record-breaking 735,000 early votes cast.

This year’s voter turnout is the highest since the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, when 1,469,454 voters cast their ballots in the 2001 race between Republican Michael Bloomberg and Democrat Mark Green.

It is also the biggest turnout in at least 30 years when just under 1.9 million voted in the 1993 race between Republican Rudy Giuliani and Democrat David Dinkins.

In the 2021 race between Democrat Eric Adams and Republican Curtis Sliwa, 1,125,258 voters came out.

While high voter turnout is generally considered a good thing, it does not necessarily guarantee victory for any one candidate.

The high voter turnout could bode well for Mamdani’s chance of victory if it is taken as a signal that his campaign has been successful in its mission to motivate previously disillusioned non-voters to turn out.

However the surge could also be accounted for by the unusual circumstances of both Cuomo and Adams appearing on the ballot paper despite failing to secure their party’s nomination.

Megyn Kelly said her former Manhattan apartment has already plummeted in value as wealthy New Yorkers prepare to flee the city, and warned that young Mamdani voters are set to relearn the lesson of history – that ‘socialism always fails.’

‘I’m terrified of this guy getting elected, and I think that’s what’s going to happen on Tuesday. I’m genuinely scared of it. I think this is a terrible, terrible decision,’ she told the Daily Mail.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt hit out at New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for implying the president could be connected to bomb threats at polling places.

‘I think this is just another example of how the Democrat Party unfortunately stands for nothing. All they stand against is President Donald Trump,’ Leavitt said.

Earlier in the day, Mamdani bizarrely shifted blame onto Donald Trump for reports of bomb threats across multiple polling locations in New Jersey.

‘It’s incredibly concerning, and I think that it is an illustration of the attacks we’re seeing on our democracy,’ the Uganda-born candidate responded.

‘We have to understand this as part of the general approach the Trump administration has taken to trying to intimidate voters with baseless allegations of voter fraud as a means of trying to repress the voice of Americans across this country.’

Here is what times the polls close across the country:

• Virginia – polls close 7pm ET
• New Jersey – polls close 8pm ET
• New York – polls close 9pm ET
• California – polls close 11pm ET

Donald Trump has been accused of secretly hoping Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral election, despite supporting his rival Andrew Cuomo instead.

The president gave a last-minute endorsement to Cuomo via Truth Social on Monday – something which could push liberal anti-Trump New Yorkers even further toward Mamdani.

Cliff Asness, the CEO and co-founder of NYC investment firm AQR Capital Management, has warned that Zoharn Mamdani’s rent freeze plan would be a ‘hydrogen bomb’ for the real estate market.

‘A rent freeze is the hydrogen bomb to the atomic bomb of regular rent controls,’ Asness told the New York Post.

‘Rent control is one of the few issues almost all economists agree destroys the city. So let’s triple down. Genius,’ he added sarcastically.

Mamdani has campaigned on a promise of placing a rent freeze on all rent-stabilized apartments across the Big Apple on his first day as mayor.

In New York City, rent-stabilized apartments are a type of unit covered by a policy that protects tenants from sharp price increases.

Landlords are only allowed to raise the rents of tenants in rent-stabilized units by a percentage determined by the NYC Rent Guidelines Board. The mayor appoints members of the board.

Approximately one million apartments in the Big Apple are covered by rent stabilization.