Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee in New York City’s mayoral race, is facing off against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent, on Election Day.
Voters will also pick a new governor in New Jersey and Virginia and decide on a ballot measure in California to redraw its congressional district maps.
Nearly 1.5 million people had cast their ballots in New York City by 3 p.m. Tuesday - with hours more to go before the polls close - but already far outstripping the 1.1 million who voted in the 2021 election.
New Yorkers can continue to vote until 9 p.m. ET when polls close. In other states where elections were taking place, polls close in Virginia at 7 p.m. ET, in New Jersey at 8 p.m. ET, in California at 8 p.m. PT and in Texas at 7 p.m. local time.
President Donald Trump has baselessly claimed voting in California was "rigged."
California Governor Gavin Newsom dismissed Trump’s claims as “the ramblings of an old man that knows he’s about to LOSE.”
Key Points
- Americans head to the polls in New York, California, New Jersey, Virginia and Texas on Tuesday
- 'No credible bomb threats:' New Jersey officials speak out after Election Day scare
- Here's how to find your polling place
- When do polls close?
- 'Confident, not complacent': DNC chair says as first major test of Trump's term underway
What races to watch this Election Day
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Rachel Dobkin
There are several high-profile races to look out for as we head into election day.
New York City’s mayoral race
- Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani is facing off against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.
- Mamdani is leading in the polls with 43.9 percent of voter support in a new Atlas Intel poll. Cuomo is trailing with 39.4 percent, followed by Sliwa with 15.5 percent.
Virginia’s gubernatorial race
- Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, a Republican, is running against former Democratic congresswoman Abigail Spanberger in the governor’s race.
- Spanberger is leading in the polls with 54 percent of voter support in a new Research Co. poll, compared to Earle-Sears’ 46 percent.
New Jersey’s gubernatorial race
- Former state legislator Jack Ciattarelli is the Republican choice in New Jersey, up against Democratic Representative Mikie Sherrill.
- New Jersey’s gubernatorial race is much closer than Virginia’s. In the same Research Co. poll, Sherrill leads Ciattarelli by just three percentage points, 51 to 48 percent.
California’s ballot measure
- Californians will be voting on whether to approve new congressional maps as Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom pushes for redistricting in response to Texas’ own redistricting efforts in favor of Republicans.
Mamdani throws support behind housing-related proposals in New York
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Alex Woodward
Besides choosing their next mayor, New Yorkers will be voting on four major housing-related proposals intended to address the city’s affordable housing crisis — a key pillar of Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani’s campaign.
The measures, which were developed under Mayor Eric Adams’s administration, would shift power away from the New York City Council, dramatically changing the balance of power when it comes to land use and development issues by elbowing out neighborhood decision-making and concentrating more authority in the mayor’s office.
The city council — warning that a concentration of power in the mayor’s office would be a disaster under a mayor who is bad on housing issues — has called on New Yorkers to vote against them.
Mamdani’s campaign, until today, has kept quiet about how he planned to vote for them. On Election Day, he voted in favor.
“I think we need to urgently build more housing… across the five boroughs,” he said. “And we also need to ensure that that housing is high quality, creating high-quality union jobs.”
Opposition from city council “is driven by a commitment to their communities and a deep concern about investment in those communities,” he said. “I share the commitment to that investment.”
Chuck Schumer refuses to say he who voted for
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Rachel Dobkin
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has refused to say who he voted for in New York City’s mayoral race.
"Look, I voted and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help New York City,” Schumer told reporters Tuesday, per NBC News.
Schumer has not endorsed Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani or former Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and New York Governor Kathy Hochul have endorsed Mamdani.
Watch: Cuomo pushes New Yorkers to hit the polls
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Rachel Dobkin
GET OUT AND VOTE! ️
— Andrew Cuomo (@andrewcuomo) November 4, 2025
It’s the greatest privilege we have to vote—don’t take it lightly.
Use your power, use your voice, and VOTE today!
Polls close at 9 PM EST. Visit https://t.co/cmZ7ZjZyEI to find your nearest site.#VoteforCuomo pic.twitter.com/1otit1vsxH
In photos: Virginians cast their ballots before polls close at 7 p.m. ET
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Kelly Rissman
Trump threatens ‘legal and criminal review’ of voting if Newsom’s Democratic redistricting measure wins in Californi
21:20
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Kelly Rissman
With hours to go until polls close on California’s House redistricting ballot initiative, President Donald Trump and his aides are already attempting to undermine the result with seemingly unfounded claims of widespread fraud.
The president took to Truth Social just hours after polls opened across the Golden State to claim that the “unconstitutional” vote on whether to temporarily adopt a congressional district map to counter GOP-led redistricting efforts in Texas is “a giant scam” because “the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED.”
Trump then added: “All “Mail-In” Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are “Shut Out,” is under very serious legal and criminal review. STAY TUNED!”
Andrew Feinberg has the story.
WATCH: 91-year-old Mamdani voter goes viral on CNN interview
21:10
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Kelly Rissman
NYC votes tally: How many ballots have been cast in the high-stakes mayoral race?
21:00
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Kelly Rissman
More than 735,000 people cast their ballots in New York City’s mayoral race during the nine days of early voting.
As of 3 p.m. ET Tuesday, more than 1.4 million people have voted, according to the NYC Board of Elections.
Ballots are still being cast. Polls close at 9 p.m. ET.
— NYC Board of Elections (@BOENYC) November 4, 2025
Trump doles out more endorsements — but notably not for Virginia's GOP gubernatorial candidate
20:50
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Kelly Rissman
The president has handed out a series of endorsements for Republican candidates over the last two days.
Yet he still has not thrown his support behind Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears.
Trump urged residents in Virginia and New Jersey, where two gubernatorial races are playing out, to “VOTE REPUBLICAN” but didn’t mention the GOP candidate by name.
If she wins, Earle-Sears, the sitting lieutenant governor of the state, could become the first Black woman to be elected governor of any state.
Fewer resources to protect against voter intimidation, expert warns after NJ bomb threats
20:40
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Kelly Rissman
Expert warns of ‘troubling pattern’ after bomb threats at New Jersey polling places.
“Bomb threats at polling places in New Jersey today follow a troubling pattern. Election officials are now seeing coordinated threats not just in federal election years, but in off-year local elections too. This is becoming a consistent tactic to disrupt voting and intimidate election workers,” Tim Harper, a senior analyst at the Center for Democracy & Technology, said in a social media post.
Emailed threats were sent to several polling places in New Jersey Tuesday morning, disrupting voting; law enforcement has since determined they weren’t credible.
“We’ve already seen the stakes: in 2024, over 100 bomb threats tied to Russian-linked actors targeted election operations nationwide. Because of strong preparation and federal support, voting continued with minimal disruption,” he said.
But in March, the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center, which provided real-time threat detection, was defunded.
“And unlike in past cycles, CISA did not issue public guidance this year about likely threats to voting operations. That leaves state and local officials with less warning and fewer resources — even as threats increase,” Harper said.
White House is developing 'executive action' to combat election fraud as Trump claims California voting is 'rigged'
20:30
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Kelly Rissman
When asked about President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that voting i California was “rigged,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the White House is “looking into” executive action on elections.
The administration is working on an executive order “to strengthen our elections in this country,” she said at a Tuesday press conference, but provided few details beyond that.
“And like any executive order, of course, any executive order the President signs is within his full executive authority and within the confines of the law,” she added.
'The president does not support me': Cuomo clarifies after Trump calls him 'capable'
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Kelly Rissman
On Monday, President Donald Trump cautioned against voting GOP mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa, claiming a vote for him “is a vote for Mamdani,” whom he has described as a “communist.”
Instead, the president suggested voting for Andrew Cuomo.
“Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job. He is capable of it, Mamdani is not!” he wrote on Truth Social.
Speaking to Fox News Tuesday, Cuomo, who is running as an independent candidate, said: “The president does not support me. The president opposes Zohran Mamdani.”
Trump believes Mamdani is a “communist” and an “existential threat,” Cuomo added. “I believe he’s a socialist and an existential threat.”
WATCH: Leavitt backs Trump's baseless California election fraud claim
20:10
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Kelly Rissman
Kentucky official reminds residents that they can't vote in NYC race
20:00
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Kelly Rissman
Kentucky’s Secretary of State reminded residents that they can’t cast ballots today — because the state isn’t holding an election.
The reminder came after the state received calls about polls being closed, Michael Adams said in a social media post.
“You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry,” he wrote.
We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry. https://t.co/O71e7asXaW
— Michael Adams, KY Secretary of State (@KYSecState) November 4, 2025
When do polls close?
19:50
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Kelly Rissman
Election Day is well underway.
Here’s when some polls close on Tuesday across the country:
- New York: 9 p.m. ET
- Virginia: 7 p.m. ET
- New Jersey: 8 p.m. ET
- California: 8 p.m. PT
WATCH: Mamdani reacts to Trump's threat to defund New York City if he wins mayoral race
19:40
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Kelly Rissman
National Jewish coalition slams Trump for making 'scapegoats' of Jewish Americans
19:31
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Kelly Rissman
In a Truth Social post Tuesday morning, the president slammed any Jewish person who casts a vote for New York City mayor frontrunner Zohran Mamdani as "stupid.”
"There is no room for antisemitism in this city and in this country...that is something I personally believe," Mamdani said in June. The Democrat has been repeatedly attacked for his history of pro-Palestinian support and criticism of Israel over its war in Gaza.
Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, condemned Trump’s remarks.
“President Trump has repeatedly labeled Jews who do not vote the way he wants them to as 'disloyal,' 'stupid,' or worse – dividing the Jewish community into 'good' and 'bad' camps. He scapegoats Jewish Americans while often reinforcing dual loyalty tropes and normalizing antisemitic attacks on those he deems 'bad,’” Spitalnick said in a statement.
“Treating Jews as political footballs only makes our community – and all communities – less safe. This is not about partisan politics – it’s about our fundamental safety.”
Cuomo suggested that Trump’s comments went too far. Asked if he agreed with the president’s comment, the former governor said: “I don't know if that's true.”
Maine to vote on red flag law, two years after state's deadliest mass shooting
19:23
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Kelly Rissman
Two years after Robert Card carried out the deadliest shooting in the state’s mass history, Maine voters will decide whether to make it easier for family members to petition a court to restrict a potentially dangerous person’s access to guns.
If passed, the measure would establish a red flag law, or an Extreme Risk Protection Order.
As of November 2025, 21 states have red flag laws, according to Everytown for Gun Safety.
In October 2023, Card, an army reservist, opened fire in two locations in Maine, killing 18 people and injuring more than a dozen others. Concerns about Card’s mental state were raised about by both his family and the army before the mass shooting, raising questions as to whether authorities could have done more to prevent the tragedy.
An independent commission later found that there were missed opportunities to intervene and seize his guns.
Influential banking boss says he will support Mamdani if he wins New York mayor's race
19:08
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Kelly Rissman
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has broken ranks with his fellow New York business leaders to “offer to help” Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani if he wins Tuesday’s election to City Hall.
As residents of the Big Apple go to the polls, the young progressive looks on course to secure a victory over independent candidate Andrew Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.
However, there has been considerable conservative resistance towards Mamdani’s affordability agenda, with President Donald Trump coming forward Monday to urge citizens of his old hometown to reject his “communist” platform and back Cuomo, prompting the Democrat to accuse Trump in turn of feeling “threatened” by his campaign.
Read the full story.
Bernie Sanders gives his opinion on NYC mayor's race to The Independent
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Eric Garcia
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the democratic socialist senator and vanguard for the left, chatted with The Independent on his way back to his office ahead of what might be the biggest coup for his wing of the Democratic Party: Zohran Mamdani becoming the next mayor of New York City.
As of right now, many of the top Democratic leaders, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibran (D-N.Y.), have yet to endorse Mamdani. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries offered a bog-standard endorsement, though Gov. Kathy Hochul has very enthusiastically endorsed Mamdani.
"Those are two votes, I suspect Mamdani is gonna get up more than two votes," he told The Independent. "I'm not into predicting elections, but mandami has run a brilliant campaign."
Early voting has shown many parts of Mamdani's base of support have turned out in huge droves, including young people, Latinos and Asian-Americans. Sanders hoped this coalition deliver him the Democratic nomination for president in 2016 and 2020, but never materialized.
When asked about Mamdani's appeal with Latino voters, Sanders, who tapped into Latino support to the extent he earned the nickname "Tío Bernie," pointed to how he has appealed to other racial demographics as well.
"It's not just Latinos," he said. He is doing well with Latinos because many Latinos are working class. He's doing well with blacks now, because blacks are working he's doing well with the young people because they can't afford to buy a house. You know, he's doing well across the board.”
Already, plenty of Republicans are trying to tie Democrats to Mamdani. But Sanders said Democrats could learn a great deal from his campaign.
"I understand that New York City is not Kansas, it's not Missouri, but all over this country, people are sick and tired of the status quo," he said. "They're tired of the rich getting richer, and working families struggle. They want candidates to be prepared to take on the oligarchs, to fight for working class people. That's what Mahdani is doing so successfully in New York, and I think that that's a lesson that can be learned in every state in this country."
'Confident, not complacent': DNC chair says as first major test of Trump's term underway
18:40
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Kelly Rissman
Voters across the country are casting their ballots in critical races that serve as the first major test of President Donald Trump’s second term.
“We’re confident, but we’re not complacent,” Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, told CNN. “We’re going to keep our foot on the gas and do everything we can in the remaining hours here to turn out as many votes as we can.”
Polls suggest Democrats are projected to win in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races. Surveys also show Democrat Zohran Mamdani leading in the NYC mayoral race.
“When we focus on an economic message right, and we focus on those kitchen table issues, we can win,” Martin told the network. “It’s when we get distracted or pulled into other issues that we start to lose connection with the electorate.”
More than 460,000 people have cast their ballots so far on Election Day
18:30
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Kelly Rissman
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers cast their ballots between the hours of 6 a.m., when polls opened, until noon, according to the city’s board of elections.
That figure tacks onto the more than 735,000 people who voted during the early voting period.
As of noon Tuesday, nearly 1.2 million people have voted in the high-stakes mayoral race.
Polls close at 9 p.m. ET.
— NYC Board of Elections (@BOENYC) November 4, 2025
Republican election group targets 'copycat Mamdanis'
18:27
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Kelly Rissman and Eric Garcia
New Yorkers are still casting their votes in the high-stakes mayoral race, but the National Republican Senatorial Committee has already put out several releases warning about Democrat Zohran Mamdani.
The NRSC issued several releases Tuesday linking Mamdani to Senate candidates, such as Roy Cooper in North Carolina, Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota, James Talarico in Texas, Graham Platner in Maine, Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff in Georgia.
For example, in the release about Platner, NRSC Regional Press Secretary Samantha Cantrell said: “Graham Platner has embraced socialist policies so openly that he has been nicknamed, ‘Maine’s Zohran Mamdani,’ and has won record support from Maine’s Democrat base despite mounting controversies.”
“Democrats have anointed Mamdani as their new leader and voters in battleground states like Maine will reject the radical, copy-cat Mamdanis like Platner in 2026.”
WATCH: Cuomo blasts Mamdani's 'TikTok promises' on Election Day in New York
18:10
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Kelly Rissman
In photos: Cuomo casts his ballot in high-stakes NYC mayoral race
18:00
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Kelly Rissman
A historic moment in Virginia
17:49
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Kelly Rissman
No matter who wins, Virginia voters will elect the state’s first female governor as Democrat Abigail Spanberger and Republican Winsome Earle-Sears go head-to-head.
Spanberger is a Congresswoman and former CIA operative; she’s earned the support of former President Barack Obama.
Earle-Sears serves as the lieutenant governor to Glenn Youngkin. If she wins, she would be the first Black woman elected governor of any state. Trump has not endorsed her.
“I haven’t been too much involved in Virginia — I love the state; I did very well in the state,” the president said last month. “I think the Republican candidate is very good, and she should win because the Democrat candidate is a disaster.”
Obama weighs in on consequential elections
17:35
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Kelly Rissman
Former President Barack Obama urged Americans across the country to vote.
The former president reposted clips of his remarks from a rally in Norfolk, Virginia, this week.
“What’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country,” Obama said at the rally.
“The dangers are now clear. We don’t need to speculate about the dangers to our democracy. They’re here,” the former president said. “Elections matter.”
Elon Musk appears to not understand how voting ballots work
17:24
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Kelly Rissman
Elon Musk, who endorsed independent mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo Monday, is now taking issue with the formatting of the New York City ballots.
In a social media post, the world’s richest person raised concerns about where Cuomo’s name appeared on the ballot.
He also noted that the names of his rivals — Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa — appeared twice. This is because Mamdani appears on ballot lines for both the Democratic Party and the Working Families Party while Sliwa appears on the Republican Party ballot line as well as the independent ballot line he created called “Protect Animals.”
Cuomo ran as an independent after losing the Democratic primary to Mamdani. He’s running on the “Fight and Deliver” ballot line.
Trump slams California's Prop 50 as voters head to the polls
17:20
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Kelly Rissman
President Donald Trump called California’s redistricting measure a “giant scam” as voters in the state decide whether to approve a redrawn congressional map that could give California five more Democratic seats in the House.
"The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED,” the president claimed in a Truth Social post Tuesday morning.
Governor Gavin Newsom fired back: “The ramblings of an old man that knows he’s about to LOSE.”
Prop 50 aims to counteract the redistricting efforts in Texas, where lawmakers approved a new map that would mean Republicans are set to pick up five additional seats in the House in the midterm elections.
North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, and Utah have also passed redrawn maps, while Virginia and Indiana are considering following suit.
WATCH: California voters decide on new congressional map
17:10
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Kelly Rissman
Mamdani vows to stand up for New York City against Trump
17:07
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Kelly Rissman
Zohran Mamdani responds to President Donald Trump’s threats to cut federal funds to the Big Apple if he wins the New York City mayoral race.
“We have to stop treating everything that Donald Trump says as if it is law, just by virtue of the fact that he's saying it,” Mamdani said on “Morning Joe” Tuesday morning. “These are threats, many of which go far beyond the actual powers of the presidency, and this is money that New Yorkers are owed. It's not money that we are hoping the president will give us.”
“So, we're going to use the courts. We're going to use the bully pulpit. We're going to use every tool at our disposal to stand up for the people of the city,” the frontrunner said.
Sliwa attacks Cuomo over Covid-19 nursing home scandal
17:00
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Kelly Rissman
Republican NYC Mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa took aim at rival Andrew Cuomo’s past handling of nursing home deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Sliwa posted several photos of seniors, with the caption: “Cuomo’s Covid victims: we can never forget.”
In 2020, Cuomo ordered that nursing homes re-admit residents who were “medically stable.” The directive stated: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.”
New York Attorney General Letitia James released a report in 2021 that found “government guidance requiring the admission of COVID-19 patients into nursing homes may have put residents at increased risk of harm in some facilities and may have obscured the data available to assess that risk.”
The report also found that the Department of Health under Cuomo undercounted the number of nursing home residents who died from Covid-19 by as much as 50 percent.
The following month, Cuomo acknowledged “there was a delay” in coming forward with the data.
Democratic victory in Virginia could be 'love letter' to the world, state party chair says
16:50
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Kelly Rissman
Lamont Bagby, Virginia state Senator and chair of the Democratic Party, said Democratic victories in the state could send a “love letter” to the world.
Some politicos say Virginia could serve as a “barometer” for attitudes toward the Democratic party, CNN’s Kate Bolduan said on Tuesday. If Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears defeats Democrat Abigail Spanberger, she asked, what message would that send?
“Not just the nation, the world is watching. And as our speaker, Don Scott, has mentioned, we plan to send a love letter to the entire world to say that we are standing up for democracy,” Bagby said on CNN News Central.
“We’re standing up for those basic needs that I know that many Virginians are desperate for right now. And their hunger for change, literally and figuratively. And so, we have Abigail Spanberger, Ghazala Hashmi, Jay Jones and 100 members of the house of delegates candidates running to make sure that we deliver on health care, education and many other things that that Virginians are hurting for.”
In photos: Virginia voters line up to cast their ballots on Election Day
16:40
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Kelly Rissman
What to know about 'election monitors' in California and New Jersey
16:30
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Kelly Rissman
The Justice Department announced last month that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions across New Jersey and California “to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law.”
Here’s where to expect “election monitors”:
- Passaic County, New Jersey
- Kern County, California
- Riverside County, California
- Fresno County, California
- Orange County, California
- Los Angeles County, California
“Transparency at the polls translates into faith in the electoral process, and this Department of Justice is committed to upholding the highest standards of election integrity,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement. “We will commit the resources necessary to ensure the American people get the fair, free, and transparent elections they deserve.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom condemned the move, emphasizing that the election being held in California is statewide, not federal.
“This is about voter intimidation. This is about voter suppression, period,” he claimed in a video message.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta also said that state monitors will be tasked with making sure the DOJ monitors adhere to election laws.
Trump slams Jewish voters as 'stupid' if they vote for NYC mayor hopeful Mamdani
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Kelly Rissman
President Donald Trump has slammed any Jewish person who casts a vote for New York City mayor frontrunner Zohran Mamdani as a "stupid person."
"Any Jewish person that votes for Zohran Mamdani, a proven and self professed JEW HATER, is a stupid person!!!" the president wrote on Truth Social on Election Day.
Mamdani, who has been critical of Israel over its war in Gaza, is no stranger to attacks; his opponent in the race, Andrew Cuomo, even went so far as to call him a "terrorist sympathizer."
The attacks largely stem from Mamdani's history of pro-Palestinian support. The Democratic socialist has pledged to order NYPD to arrest Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — after a warrant was issued by the International Criminal Court — and refused to criticize the phrase “globalize the intifada," but has clarified it's “not language that I use.”
Mamdani, who could soon become the city's first Muslim mayor, has vowed to increase funding to investigate hate crimes, including antisemitic incidents, in New York City.
"There is no room for antisemitism in this city and in this country...that is something I personally believe," Mamdani said in June. "Antisemitism is such a real issue in this city and it has been hard to see it weaponized by candidates who do not seem to have any sincere interest in tackling it, but rather in using it as a pretext to make political points."
Trump admits Republicans ‘likely’ to lose midterm elections unless they go ‘nuclear’ and end Senate filibuster
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Kelly Rissman
One year out from the 2026 midterm elections, President Donald Trump is predicting his own party will fare extremely poorly next year unless senators ditch the filibuster and ram through a host of partisan bills that he says would make the GOP nearly unbeatable in future contests.
In a Truth Social post authored as polls opened for gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey and a closely-watched mayoral election in his former home of New York City, Trump wrote that Democrats “are far more likely to win the Midterms, and the next Presidential Election” unless senators vote to scrap the 60-vote threshold for most legislation in the upper chamber.
The longstanding Senate rule is widely considered to have a moderating effect on legislation moving through Congress because it requires bills to have bipartisan support to get through the Senate.
Andrew Feinberg has the story.
GOP mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa casts his ballot in New York City
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Kelly Rissman
Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa voted early on the morning of Election Day, sporting his recognizable red beret.
Sliwa slammed both Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani and independent candidate Andrew Cuomo.
Regarding the ballot proposals, he claimed Mamdani “waffled” in the debate and “up until the point that he voted.” Mamdani didn’t reveal his stance on the proposals until after he voted Tuesday.
In a message directly to Mamdani, Sliwa said in a video: “You’ve proven to be a typical politician. Where is your soul on this?”
As to Cuomo, he took issue with the former governor calling him “selfish.”
"Selfish! The most selfish person I know is Andrew Cuomo, who feels he's entitled," Sliwa said, according to a Politico reporter. "He's gonna lose again today, and he's not, like a zombie, going to be able to come back from the political dead."
WATCH: Mamdani reacts to Trump's threat to defund New York City if he wins mayoral race
15:53
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Kelly Rissman
'No credible bomb threats:' New Jersey officials speak out after Election Day scare
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Kelly Rissman
The state’s attorney general reported bomb threats sent by email to various polling places across half a dozen counties on the morning of Election Day.
“Earlier today, bomb threats were made to several polling sites. Law enforcement has determined there are no credible threats at this time. We are doing everything in our power to protect voters and poll workers and encourage every eligible voter to exercise their right to vote,” Lt. Governor Tahesha Way wrote on X.
Some polling places have reopened, while voters at closed polling sites are being directed to nearby locations, Attorney General Matthew Platkin said.
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, slammed the threats as a “clear attempt to undermine our democratic system and intimidate New Jerseyans from going to the polls to exercise their right to vote. “
“I’m grateful for law enforcement’s swift response to these threats and for making sure that every voter can safely and securely make their voice heard this Election Day. We will not stand for voter suppression in our state — and I encourage all New Jerseyans to not be deterred as they cast their ballots today,” she wrote on X.
In photos: NJ Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherill casts her ballot
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Kelly Rissman
