Election Recap: Did America Just Pivot?
Native Land Pod
iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
On episode 104 of Native Land Pod, hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers go through this week’s election results and take an account of how our Black candidates (and voters) performed.
The race for NYC’s mayor dominated the airwaves, where Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani won. BUT there were other important races. Black mayors were elected across the country, the governor race in Virginia and New Jersey went solidly Democratic, and State-level elections in the South saw typically conservative seats flip blue. Folks are wondering if Mamdani is the new “face of the Democratic party” which WE think is missing the point.
NLP is joined by President Biden’s former press secretary (the first Black woman to hold the job) Karine Jeane-Pierre to discuss some of the election results and Democrat’s media strategy. In her new book, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside Party Lines, Karine shares some pointed critiques of a party she no longer identifies with, and our hosts ask some pointed questions of Karine.
And our hosts respond to your questions! There’s an interesting one about infiltrating the Republican party and another from a chef asking who is keeping our legacy “recipes.”
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Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Tiffany Cross as host and producer, Andrew Gillum as host and producer, Bakari Sellers as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; LoLo Mychael is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | NativeLand Pod is a production of IHart Radio and partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:13.6 | All right, what's up, everybody? |
| 0:15.2 | It's your favorite podcast. NativeLampod and I'm Andrew Gillam, sharing this wonderful stage with my beautiful co-host, Angela Rai, Bacari Sellers, Angela Rai. |
| 0:25.7 | Oh, again, two of you, you're such a big personality. |
| 0:30.4 | Tiffany Cross. |
| 0:31.4 | Do it over. |
| 0:32.9 | No, we're not doing it over. |
| 0:34.7 | Because at dinner last week, I want you to know, Tiffany Cross looked me dead in the face. |
| 0:38.9 | Dead in the face. He said, Andrew, what you ordering? Andrew, what you ordering? Oh, no, we're not doing it over. You know how he responded? He went like this. And I was like, what's the problem? I didn't even realize I said that he flipped me off, y'all. And for those who are listening, |
| 0:54.6 | she flicked everybody off just so in case you didn't see it. |
| 0:57.9 | And, uh, uh, uh, I didn't even realize I said he flipped me off y'all. And for those who are listening, she flicked everybody off just so in case you didn't see it. |
| 0:57.8 | In that case, we will not be doing your introductions over again, people. |
| 1:01.6 | But this is episode 104. |
| 1:03.9 | And I am here with Tiff Bakari and Angela Rai. |
| 1:08.6 | And we're happy to be with you as we recount the days of past and future. |
| 1:15.1 | And more importantly, we've got some, I think some great content coming up, y'all. |
| 1:19.7 | What's on your mind, Bakari, Angela Tiff? |
| 1:23.9 | Well, for me, I mean, I just think that Democrats had an amazing week. |
| 1:28.0 | I mean, you can't count a race that Democrats lost in the elections. |
| 1:32.4 | But what are the lessons that we take from them? |
| 1:35.0 | Can you repeat them? |
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