Four Races To Watch This Election Day
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political correspondent Ashley Lopez, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
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| 0:15.6 | Hi, this is Jeannie. I live in New York City and I am on my way to vote in the New York City mayoral race. |
| 0:21.7 | This podcast was recorded at 106 p.m. on Tuesday, November 4th, Election Day, some places. |
| 0:28.7 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:35.4 | Yay! Voting! It's like the best part. |
| 0:39.7 | I was saying this before, but I'm very jealous of everyone in New York who voted on Halloween because there was a specialty I voted sticker that was Halloween themed. |
| 0:47.0 | I love an I voted sticker. |
| 0:48.1 | That's interesting. |
| 0:49.1 | Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 0:53.3 | I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover |
| 0:54.6 | politics. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. And today on the show, |
| 0:59.6 | it is Election Day, or shall we say, the last day of voting. Virginia and New Jersey will be |
| 1:06.0 | electing new governors. California will decide on whether to redraw congressional maps and New York City |
| 1:12.2 | will have a new mayor. Domenico, let's start with Virginia. Who are the leading candidates there? |
| 1:17.8 | And what are you watching for in that race? Well, those are Democrat, Abigail Spanberger, |
| 1:21.7 | and Republican winsome, Earl Sears. And there are a ton of other races up and down the ballot. |
| 1:29.9 | But those two are the main attraction in the state. And off your election usually goes to the party out of power in Virginia, |
| 1:35.4 | 11 of the last 12 times since 1977. That's been the case. We're talking about Trump being in |
| 1:42.3 | the White House right now. He's a Republican, obviously. So that would put the Democrat at an advantage, most likely. And she's favored to win this race. And we're watching the margins. I think the margin is the thing that's most important in these off-year elections. How much does the political needle move? All right. Let's talk about New Jersey real quick. Who are those candidates? |
| 2:01.0 | And what are you watching for there? The Democrat is Mikey Cheryl, Congresswoman, who's been really |
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