Democrats See Big Election Wins From California To New York City
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🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson.
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| 0:16.5 | Hi, this is Heather Van Alst of Somerville, Massachusetts. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky, heading down to the ring to compete at the National Horse Show with my horse clickbait. This podcast was recorded at. |
| 0:31.4 | 9.35 in the morning on Wednesday, November 5th. Things may have changed by the time you hear this, |
| 0:37.6 | but I will still be spoiling clickbait, |
| 0:40.4 | or Levi, as we call them in the barn. |
| 0:42.5 | Absolutely rotten for letting me live out one of my long-time dreams. |
| 0:46.8 | Here's the show. |
| 0:51.9 | That's awesome. |
| 0:53.0 | I heard the clip-clop, clip-plop, and I was like, where are we going to be? See, we're talking about the horse race today. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, Mara, that is so good. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith, senior White House correspondent. I'm Domenica Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. And I'm Mara Liason, senior national |
| 1:12.5 | political correspondent. So senior. It's the old people show today. So there were big wins for |
| 1:18.8 | Democrats up and down the ballot last night in the states that had elections. And today, we are |
| 1:24.5 | unpacking those election results. And can I just start with this? Were you too |
| 1:29.3 | surprised by the results? Because I have to say, I was a bit surprised by how significant the margins were. |
| 1:36.4 | I was surprised. It shows there's a lot of enthusiasm on the Democratic side, giant turnouts, big margins. |
| 1:43.6 | A lot of people expected Democrats to win, but they |
| 1:46.1 | were watching to see by how much. And I think we learned last night that the political laws of |
| 1:52.5 | gravity have not been repealed. When you have an unpopular president whose policies are unpopular |
| 1:58.4 | and people are dissatisfied with the economy and the cost of living, |
| 2:02.8 | that president's party, the incumbent party, loses. And that law has not been repealed. There's |
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