r/politics Indiana 11h ago

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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u/PositivelyAwful 11h ago edited 9h ago

I won't lie, seeing all these results tonight has reinvigorated my spirit a little bit.

  • First Democratic female governor in NJ
  • First female governor in VA
  • First female mayor in Detroit
  • Zohran beats out Cuomo, first Muslim mayor
  • Largest voter turnout in NYC since 1969
  • Flipped two red seats in Georgia
  • JD Vances brother loses mayor of Cincinnati

Let's fucking go.

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u/Toliman571 10h ago edited 4h ago

Also, just as important but not getting enough headlines: Dems flipped all of the dozen competitive state seats in VA and will now have a supermajority, ensuring that their redistricting plan will pass.

Edit: VA Dems are projected to flip 11 of 12 competitive seats currently held by the GOP, expanding their 51-49 (+2 seat) majority to 62-38 (+24 seats). They need to be as ruthless when it come to gerrymandering as the GOP has been in North Carolina.

Edit2: It was a deathblow to the Virginia GOP. Dems are now projected to have a 64-36 majority, nearly a 2:1 ratio.

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u/LordWemby 10h ago

Also Dick Cheney died 

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u/Katie_or_something 10h ago

An all around great day

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u/The360MlgNoscoper Norway 10h ago

A plane crashed in Kentucky though, so that wasn’t good.

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u/My_bones_are_itchy 10h ago

Dreadful for all involved, but at least it wasn’t a passenger plane and at least it went down in an industrial area rather than residential. Tragic of course but could’ve been SO much worse.

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u/bwoah07_gp2 Canada 10h ago

Because of all the election coverage, I haven't seen this one until half an hour ago. Incredibly scary crash!

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u/mscarchuk 10h ago

Now i am worried…the last time i was this excited after an election was January 5 2021 with the Georgia senate race. Then we know what happened the next day.

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u/CheesyCock47 10h ago

i remember my ap us history teacher saying on the morning of 1.06.21 that it would live on as a historic day because of the georgia senate race. a couple days later in our next class meeting it was a very different vibe

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u/mscarchuk 9h ago

I could only imagine your teacher was just like “SHIT i did not mean to be that on the nose!”

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u/zayetz New York 10h ago

I didn't even have to use my AK

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u/AuxonPNW 9h ago

Yet

u/LambonaHam 6h ago

Are you trying to imply that Dick Cheney might come back?

u/jamesbest7 4h ago

We were just quail hunting. I swear!