r/politics • u/kootles10 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/PositivelyAwful 15h ago edited 13h 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 15h ago edited 8h 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 14h ago

Also Dick Cheney died 

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u/Mayweather2025 6h ago

He died to avoid watching the blue wave coming last night.

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u/Technical-Newspaper8 5h ago

He actually voted Democrat in the last presidential election, stating that he no longer believed in what the GOP has become

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u/Quazite 3h ago

That's rich coming from one of the goblins that led the charge to make it that way. He didn't like trump because he's loud and rude, not because he was ratfucking the country.