City Journal Reacts to Election Night
City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
4.7 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Charles Fain Lehman, Rafael Mangual, John Ketcham, and Pirate Wires's Mike Solana analyze the results of New York City's mayoral election.
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| 0:00.0 | We're live from New York. |
| 0:10.3 | This is a city channel special guest, Mike Solana. |
| 0:12.7 | I was saying, I was saying before we got on Mike that we're just going to go in order of like loud anger. |
| 0:18.5 | So it's going to be you and then it's going to be me and then it's going to be |
| 0:22.1 | Ralph so it's like who's going to be on the bottom of the anger totem pole because you try to you |
| 0:28.5 | pretend to be reasonable when you're on camera this is true you act you act like you're a reasonable |
| 0:32.7 | person I do not act like a reasonable person I've never I've never pretended to be a reasonable |
| 0:36.8 | person we learned we learned before we on mic that John lives in one of I do not act like a reasonable person. I've never, I've never pretended to be a reasonable person. |
| 0:44.7 | We learned, we learned before we had on Mike that John lives in one of the jurisdictions that is projected to vote for Curtis Sliwa. |
| 0:46.8 | So he's a Slewa American. |
| 0:48.3 | In a sea of blue. |
| 0:52.6 | The only little speck of red in a sea of blue. |
| 1:44.6 | I'm holding the line. You know, I grew up, line. I grew up in Ocean County. Wait, wait, wait, what? I said I grew up in Ocean County, New Jersey. So I'm watching all of these results come in from the Jersey and Governor's Race. And they're like, oh, my, and then here's like this Ocean County. It's just like bright red. And I know all about Ocean County. I, yeah, that was, I'm unhappy with that result. That is not a good result. What's the result for New Jersey? Yeah, Cheryl won. Yes, look at that. Oh, yeah. No, they called it almost immediately. Wow. Yeah. I was the same thing in, in Virginia. Jason Miarres lost lost to Jay Jones, the one who talked about killing people's children. So that's not like that. That's wild. They just have no, that's, what Jay Jones said was unambiguous. He was like, I want this woman's kids to die. Like that's just like crazy. They will vote for anything. They, as long as that, right. |
| 1:48.0 | And like, well, so the other interesting thing, somebody, somebody was talking with this, |
| 1:53.9 | uh, Virginians as a general rule are more likely to vote for a Republican for attorney general. Like there's a, you know, there's a five point effect or something for Virginia and AG specifically because they just perceive it as a law and order role. |
| 2:01.7 | That didn't even matter. |
| 2:02.8 | It's just like... |
| 2:04.0 | But that result, I mean, that really could. |
| 2:05.9 | I mean, essentially every single Democrat who clutched their pearls at the things that Donald Trump said that were allegedly uncouthous was full of it. |
| 2:15.9 | Yeah. |
| 2:16.6 | Great. |
| 2:17.4 | I mean, it's like why even, you know, like, talk about like Trump's effect in terms of |
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