From New York, this is Democracy Now.

We know and have known for months that Donald Trump would favor Andrew Cuomo as the mayor.

They share the same donors.

They share the same small vision.

They share the same sense of impunity.

It's election day in many parts of the United States here in New York.

Democratic Socialist mayoral candidate Zoran Mandani spoke out Monday after President Trump

and Elon Musk endorsed former Governor Andrew Cuomo.

We'll get the latest on the New York mayoral race and other critical races, as well as Proposition 50 in California.

Then former Vice President Dick Cheney has died at the age of 84.

He was a key architect of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the U.S. torture program after 9-11.

What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do.

If I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the right same course of action.

We'll speak to the nation's John Nichols, author of The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney,

unlocking the mysteries of the most powerful

vice president in American history. Then to Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Carol

Lenig and Aaron Davis about their blockbuster new book, out today, Injustice, how politics

and fear vanquished America's Justice Department. All that and more

coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

It's Election Day here in the United States, voters in New Jersey and Virginia casting their ballots for governor. Meanwhile, voters in California will be weighing in on a new set of congressional maps pushed by Governor Gavin Newsom that could give Democrats a five-seat advantage in Congress. That's in response to the GOP-led Texas State Legislature

passing congressional maps earlier this year that would enable Republicans to pick up five

additional House seats. Here in New York City, Democratic nominee Zoran Mandani is running against

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