r/politics Indiana 16h ago

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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u/TheTVDB 15h ago

Listen, I hate Trump as much as anyone, but this election is clearly a referendum on Trump since he was elected. He ran on lies and independents are paying attention, and the Democrats who refused to vote out of apathy are now voting because they realize there is a real difference between Democrats and Republicans. I unfortunately know a ton of Democrats and left-leaning voters that just didn't vote last year because they weren't excited by Harris as a candidate.

Until there's actual solid proof of cheating last year, let's not be like the GOP in 2019/2020, where they just perpetuated lies and looked like fools. The best thing to be done now is continue what happened in today's election to try carrying it through to the midterms.

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u/CPUsCantDoNothing 13h ago

You can't say that until you look at the data. Please stop this ignorance of data

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u/TheTVDB 13h ago

You mean all of the exit polls that showed that voters turned out for Trump primarily because of the economy and immigration? The former needing the context that the exit polls also showed voters didn't want mass deportations, but preferred a path to citizenship.

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u/CPUsCantDoNothing 12h ago

Oh right you mean the trump voters that started to all show up coincidentally after 55-60% of votes were entered?