{"id":356216,"date":"2025-11-05T00:32:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/356216\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:32:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:32:31","slug":"nyc-waiting-on-mamdani-vs-cuomo-election-results-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/356216\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Waiting on Mamdani vs. Cuomo Election Results (Updates)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/intelligencer\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmhl6zntd001h3b79fpnb3g94@published\" data-word-count=\"72\">Given the many excesses of Trump 2.0, and the desperate desire of Democrats for signs of a backlash, the results of off-year elections in New Jersey, Virginia, California, Pennsylvania, and New York City would have inevitably been interpreted as in part a referendum on the turbulent first year of the 47th presidency. But Trump has also gone out of his way to make himself an issue on November 4 in various ways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/intelligencer\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmhl70fzk001j3b79lx4r6emv@published\" data-word-count=\"32\">He has all but become Andrew Cuomo\u2019s most important backer in New York City, and his threats to punish Gotham for the likely election of Zohran Mamdani is overshadowing the entire campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/intelligencer\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmhl70ou6001k3b793kvsfwu5@published\" data-word-count=\"29\">He has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/04\/new-jerseys-race-for-governor-puts-trump-to-the-test-00634393\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">directly campaigned<\/a>\u00a0for New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli, whose decision to embrace Trump this time around (after keeping his distance four years ago) was a major gamble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/intelligencer\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmhl70vwm001l3b790x33w2ny@published\" data-word-count=\"29\">He\u2019s made a lot of noise in opposition California\u2019s Prop 50, which was already being framed by its sponsors as all about retaliating for the president\u2019s gerrymandering power grabs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/intelligencer\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmhl71003001m3b79akch0soi@published\" data-word-count=\"35\">And even in a contest where he did not make an endorsement, the Virginia governor\u2019s race, his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/03\/trump-endorses-republicans-earle-sears-00633218\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">snub<\/a>\u00a0of GOP nominee Winsome Earle-Sears has become a last-minute preoccupation, signaling that Republicans have given up on their candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/intelligencer\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmhl7193m001n3b79g34u2htg@published\" data-word-count=\"36\">A Democratic sweep of these races would not just be a setback for Trump\u2019s party; it would also put to rest the claim that 2024 signaled a pro-GOP alignment of the electorate for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Given the many excesses of Trump 2.0, and the desperate desire of Democrats for signs of a backlash,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":356217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5297,138135,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,10205,60025,13144,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,138136,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-356216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-liveblog","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-mayoral-race","18":"tag-remove-interruptions","19":"tag-the-city-politic","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-well-do-it-live","27":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115494279314620957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}