Huge Win for Democrats, Trump Says It’s Because He Wasn’t on the Ballot
MEDIA BUZZmeter
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4.1 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:15.5 | It's the media buzz meter with Howard Kurtz. |
| 0:21.6 | Well, the Democrats are euphoric. |
| 0:24.6 | Many of the media pundits and prognosticators seem pretty happy too as the Democrats |
| 0:30.6 | swept every major race. |
| 0:32.6 | And I think we've just been through a kind of a classic case study of media hype, by which I mean, |
| 0:41.4 | and we're thrown out the buzzers today because there's so many moving parts to the podcast, |
| 0:46.6 | by which I mean that when you strip everything else away, Democrats haven't really had anything |
| 0:53.2 | to celebrate for a year since |
| 0:57.0 | Trump won his second term and made easy work of Kamala Harris. But now that we have these |
| 1:03.7 | off-year elections and, you know, political reporters and junkies and soothsayers, what do |
| 1:10.8 | they do? They like to cover races. And so you got a lot of |
| 1:14.9 | these outwire polls, oh, this race is tightening and that race is tightening. But in the end, it didn't |
| 1:19.5 | matter. The Democrats won by comfortable margins. And you look at New Jersey, where Democrat, |
| 1:31.4 | Mikey Sherrill, became, I believe the first governor in the state. |
| 1:34.2 | I can't think of one, and I used to cover New Jersey. |
| 1:47.6 | You look at Virginia, where Abigail Spanberger easily won her race for governor, first female governor in Virginia's history, and then a little bit more of a mixed reaction in New York City, where, as everybody could see coming, Zoran Mamdani, |
| 1:54.1 | turning back Andrew Cuomo, about a 10-point victory to become the city's first Muslim mayor, |
| 2:00.2 | and he's already under attack. |
| 2:02.1 | I mean, I've talked about this, that the GOP loves the idea of running against Mamdani. |
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