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Michael and Us

#667 - A War Room with a View

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Society & Culture

4.5697 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Just as Zohran Mamdani's New York mayoral campaign has written a new playbook for Democratic Party politics... we look back at the old playbook. We investigate THE RETURN OF THE WAR ROOM (2008), D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus's sequel to their 1993 documentary classic. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus Jack Califano's shots of CPAC - https://x.com/LukewSavage/status/1986174741481234616

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm back, back in the New York blue.

0:05.0

I'm back in the new year.

0:08.0

Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan. Here as always with.

0:11.0

Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone.

0:13.0

It's morning in America.

0:15.0

Liberalism is back on the menu, folks.

0:17.0

That's right. We got Abigail Spanberger elected governor of Virginia.

0:20.0

They said it couldn't be done.

0:22.1

Could a former CIA spook with a graduate degree in business get elected in the state of Virginia?

0:27.6

But, you know, sometimes anything is possible. Yep, Trump's done for now. So I said that I wasn't

0:33.3

going to follow election night in New York because I don't even live in New York.

0:36.7

Isn't this hipster over here? It's not my city. And it's like, I'm tired of getting, you know, emotionally invested in political races in countries and cities that aren't mine. Yeah, that's fair. So I thought, oh, maybe I'll just go to bed and I'll check in the morning. But I just happened to glance at my phone at 9.30 p.m. on Tuesday. It's like, oh, don't, he won. Don't worry. It's fine.

0:56.4

Yeah, the decision desk. morning. But I just happened to glance at my phone at 9.30 p.m. on Tuesday. It's like, oh,

0:54.7

he won. Don't worry. It's fine. Yeah, the decision desk, whatever that account is,

0:59.4

they call every race. I forget who that's affiliated with, but they called it at 903. I mean,

1:05.6

it was clear he was going to win. And the only question was by how much, I had thought going into election day that

1:12.4

this is Zora and Mom Domini, by the way. If you're listening to this like 20 years in the future,

1:18.2

you know, the new mayor of New York. Really, I think one of the most significant political events of

1:23.3

the past 15 years, one of the most significant left electoral victories in the 21st century,

1:29.2

in my opinion, it's even more incredible that he managed to get over 50%. We're still waiting

1:34.5

on, I think, about the last 7% to come in. I'm not really sure why that hasn't been counted yet.

1:39.4

I have not seen the final tally. The only kind of slight curve ball was that Cuomo did a bit better than

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