Dave Weigel: Now That's a Landslide

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The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The huge Democratic wins in Virginia, New Jersey, NYC, and California spoke loud and clear—and make Trump’s 2024 supposed ‘landslide’ margin of 1.5% look even more wimpy. Trump is not delivering on his economic promises and the backlash was across the board. Voters are also rejecting the overreach of Stephen Miller’s nativist immigration policy, particularly Latino voters. One of the biggest impacts from Tuesday’s elections is that redistricting suddenly looks like it favors the Dems. Plus, what Mamdani could teach Democrats, and the bad place the Republicans put the party in by focusing on Trump’s random obsessions instead of talking about the concerns of voters.

Semafor’s Dave Weigel joins Tim Miller.
show notes

Dave’s election reaction piece
Dave's book, "The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock"
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0:00.0	So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you.
0:20.0	Turn the volume up. I have four words for you.
0:23.4	Turn the volume up.
0:27.5	Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.
0:28.6	I'm your host, Tim Miller.
0:29.8	Delighted to welcome back to this show.
0:33.4	My friend, politics reporter at Semaphore, author of the show that never ends,
0:34.5	The Rise and Fall of Prague Rock.
0:35.4	We'll get to that at the end.
0:37.3	But we got some politicking to do first.
1:11.1	It's Dave Wigle. David, we'll do some New York mayor's race. But Zohan there, delivered in a message to Grandpa Trump, make sure he was listening. It feels like he was listening last night. He did some bleeding. What did you think was the message it was taken from the president last night? It was really unsurprising. The president's been kind of boring, frankly, about New York. And you could tell that Zoran was bored in talking about it. He was a very on-message candidate, kind of famously. It was a very funny interview did the R.A. Melba where Melbert dares him to connect everything he can back to the cost of living.
1:16.4	But yeah, it wasn't a secret. I think what Republicans and Trump would tell anybody that would listen,
1:21.4	oh, we want this guy to win so we can use him as his foil in every district. And Senate Republicans had a memo today saying, we're going to, here is how every single person we're running against,
1:25.1	we're going to tie to Mamdani in some way. And I think the way it played out in New York, there's so many inputs that went to this is the
1:33.0	highest turnout for a New York mayor's race since I think the Beatles were still a band.
1:37.4	The selector was very different.
1:38.7	Lots of things influenced it.
1:40.2	Andrew Cuomo going around begging people to drop out that helped him.
1:43.3	But the premise of Trump
1:45.3	criticizing Mamdani was often, I don't like his policies and I will hurt the city and take his money
1:50.3	away to punish him. Cuomo kind of went along with that, the whole protection racket idea
1:56.0	of the president and saying he's going to eat you alive, but I know how to deal with them.
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