Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein. Managing editor at the Borg. Here, my bud, John Avlon,

who's looking sharp for post-election morning. You look good. Look at me. I look terrible.

You know, I feel rough, but, you know, compensating. But we got a big day ahead. There's a lot of

data to go through and writing to be done.

Well, John's up in New York, which was not the epicenter, but one of the epicenters of the election night last night for a historic election of Zara Mandani as the next mayor of the New York City.

Let's nerd out a little bit.

You've been crunching the data on what happened here.

And tell me what you've been finding and what your takeaways are.

Well, first, the big picture is if you look down ballot, Democrats made gains in every swing district.

And we'll talk about New York City, but New York City is inherently an outlier, right?

From a national perspective, the fact that Mikey Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger, both won decisively, right? And they are centrist members of Congress, former members of Congress,

who have national security, military backgrounds, and they focused on affordability.

They didn't get dragged into a lot of the culture worst stuff. And they won, I mean, overwhelmingly. I mean, virtually, literally every district

in New Jersey voted more Democratic than it did last year. The big swing counties all went

for Mikey Sherrill. And Citarelli performed well in places like monmouth

but again every county in new jersey moved in the democrats direction and this is a state that

trump i mean had a 10 point gain in 2024 over his 2020 numbers so that shows a a number of things. One, the Latino voters who

went for Trump last time did not show up this time or actively voted against him. But also this

message works. And that's why there's the continuity between the two in Virginia. I mean,

there were, I think, five counties that did go more Republican, but they were all under 10,000. I mean, Loudoun County,

which, you know, a decade ago had been a prototypical swing county, went 29 points for Abigail's

Banberger. And people should remember Loudon. Loudon was the, uh, was the bellwether for Harris.

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