1030: Voters Everywhere Strike Back Against Trumpism

The Next Level

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In the first major set of elections of Donald Trump’s second term, voters deliver a rebuke to Trumpism. Democrats win gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, and Zohran Mamdani wins the mayoral race in New York City after Trump endorses Andrew Cuomo. JVL, Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller react on Election Night to what these results mean in the fight against MAGA, assess the leverage Democrats may have gained in the government shutdown debate and take stock of the political landscape a year out from the 2026 midterms.

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0:00.0	You know what I love about tonight?
0:01.3	We don't have to look back now.
0:03.0	We don't have to just keep looking back.
0:04.2	We can start looking forward.
0:05.9	We're not going back.
0:07.1	We're not going back.
0:09.6	Hello, everyone.
0:14.3	This is JVL.
0:16.4	Welcome to the next level.
0:17.5	I'm here with my best friends, Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller of the bulwark.
0:22.2	We are live from New York and Virginia and eventually from California and Proposition Land.
0:29.8	And also from New Jersey, which is a place I hear is wonderful.
0:34.3	And we are going to be doing a show for you live it'll wind up getting posted
0:39.4	onto the next level feed for people who weren't able to be with us live later on so bear
0:45.5	with us it'll be a little bit rougher and more wheels off than normal guys not not a big night
0:53.2	a huge night for Democrats, I think.
0:57.3	And I would like to start in Virginia, if that is okay with you guys.
1:02.0	It was called first.
1:04.8	Abigail Spanberger won very big.
1:10.3	It looks like right now she's looking,
1:12.2	she's trending towards like 55% vote share.
1:16.4	If so,
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