Trump damaged as Mamdani’s NYC mayor win tops huge night for Democrats: Live

Prominent Israeli politicians have attacked Mamdani’s victory, claiming that his views are “not far from those of the fanatic jihadists” who carried out the October 7 attacks.

Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs and combating anti-Semitism, describe Mamdani’s victory as a “turning point” for New York.

“A supporter of Hamas, someone whose views are not far from those of the fanatic jihadists who murdered three thousand people 25 years ago,” Chikli continued.

Avigdor Liberman, chairman of the Yisrael Beytenu opposition party, branded Mamdani as a “racist.”

“Just three decades after the Twin Towers disaster, New York has elected a racist, populist, and openly Shiite Islamist as its mayor,” Liberman wrote.

Neither politician gave evidence for their claims against Mamdani.

Earlier in the campaign, Mamdani said that Hamas had committed a “horrific war crime,” but also condemned Israeli activity in Gaza.

During his victory speech, Zohran Mamdani spoke directly to his wife, Rama Duwaji.

“To my incredible wife, Rama, hayati,” he said, using the Arabic word for “my life.” “There is no one I would rather have by my side in this moment, and in every moment.”

Duwaji has appeared with her husband throughout the election, but Mamdani says that his wife is an “incredible artist who deserves to be known on her own terms.”

She was born in Texas but grew up in the Persian Gulf.

Upon returning to the U.S. and studying at Virginia Commonwealth University, she moved to New York City.

While living in NYC, she met her future husband, a little-known assemblyman, on the dating app Hinge.

Trump has ducked the blame for the devastating losses suffered by the Republicans on November 4.

The GOP was defeated in two gubernatorial races, the NYC mayor race and California passed a bill which could give Democrats five seats in the House of Representatives.

“‘TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,’ according to Pollsters,” the president raged on Truth Social.

His post came minutes after Zohran Mamdani was announced as the winner of the NYC race.

According to the current results, Mamdani still would have won the election even if every Curtis Sliwa voter had cast their ballot for Andrew Cuomo.

At the moment, 97.1 percent of the votes are in with Mamdani winning 1,029,196 of the vote share.

Meanwhile, Cuomo is sitting on 849,816 votes and Sliwa has taken home 145,543.

During the election, Mamdani’s critics encouraged Sliwa to drop out in order to turn Cuomo into an anti-Mamdani vote.

However, according to these figures, that still would not have been enough to swing the vote in Cuomo’s direction.

Combining Sliwa and Cuomo’s support would have yielded the former New York governor 995,359 votes.

That would leave with a deficit of 33,837 votes if he wanted to beat Mamdani.

Gavin Newsom says that Donald Trump is “underwater” in “every critical category.”

“He promised to make us healthier and he promised to make us wealthier,” Newsom said. “We’re sicker and poorer. And he fundamentally understands that.

“Why else, why else would he call Greg Abbot saying he’s entitled to five seats?

“Why else is he trying to rig the midterm elections before one vote is even cast?”

Newsom added that he believes that Trump did not “count” on Californians voting to pass Proposition 50.

Aftab Pureval has defeated J.D. Vance’s half brother, Cory Bowman, in the Cincinnati mayor’s race.

Pureval’s re-election has cemented the Democrats’ control of Cincinnati’s government.

Bowman is the founder of The River Church, a Christian worship group which has been accused of encouraging its congregants to speak in tongues.

Vance shares a father with Bowman, although the pair did not grow up together. They eventually reconnected when Vance was 13 years old.

California has voted to pass Proposition 50, which will allow Democrats to redraw district lines in the state. It is projected that the Democratic Party may be able to flip 5 seats in the House of Representatives through the measure.

The bill was supported by California Governor Gavin Newsom, former Vice President Kamala Harris, Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Hillary Clinton.

The vote was passed by a majority of 63.8 percent and has sent shockwaves through the MAGA leadership.

Trump branded the vote as a “giant scam” and said that a “very serious legal and criminal review” is underway. However, he failed to say which governmental department will investigate the vote.

And, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told reporters that the vote in California was “rigged,” but refused to provide any evidence while addressing the press.

“It’s absolutely true that there’s fraud in California’s elections,” Leavitt said. “It’s just a fact. It is just a fact.”

“Rigged fraudulent ballots that are being mailed in the names of other people and the names of illegal aliens who shouldn’t be voting in American elections,” she continued. “There’s countless examples, and we’d be happy to provide them.”

It is unknown what evidence, if any, she is planning to provide.

She also confirmed that the Republicans are looking to pass an executive order from Trump which will prevent mail-in voting in California.

The U.S. Supreme Court will be weighing up the legality of Trump’s tariffs today, after the president slapped hefty levies on imports coming into the United States.

Earlier this year, Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act which allows the president to regulate international transactions in the event of an emergency.

Now, the Supreme Court will decide if Trump was legally allowed to invoke that 1977 Act.

Controlled by a right-wing majority, the Supreme Court has until July 2026 to decide on the legality of Trump’s actions.

Lower courts have ruled Trump’s invocation of the EEPA Act as unlawful, making this ruling even more important.

Trump has claimed that winning the case will make America into the “Richest, Most Secure Country” in the world, while losing it will mean that the “Country could be reduced to almost Third World status.”

A coalition of 12 states and small businesses have sued the government over the tariffs, which have increased costs on U.S. consumers.

Those states include Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Vermont.

The non-partisan Tax Foundation says that Trump’s tariffs have led to an average tax increase per household of $1,200.

By 2026, this number will rise to $1,600.

Democrat Mikie Sherrill thrashed her opponent Jack Ciattarelli, in the New Jersey gubernatorial race.

Sherrill won 56.2 percent of the vote, compared to her Republican counterpart’s share of 43.2 percent.

In her speech, though, she said she wants to fight for everyone in New Jersey, including the people who did not vote for her.

Sherrill also referenced the “No King’s” protests which have swept across the U.S.

“We’re going to follow Lady Liberty’s beacon. We’re not going to give in to our darker impulses,” she said. “Here in New Jersey, we know that this nation has not ever been, nor will it ever be ruled by kings. We take oaths to a Constitution, not a king.”

Sherrill is a US Naval Academy graduate, as well as a former helicopter pilot and federal prosecutor.

Her victory in New Jersey was just one of the huge wins celebrated by the Democrats this evening.