'If You Can Keep It': The Results Of The 2025 Election

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

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In the first general election since the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term, Democrats won big. But they might also be set to kill a lot of that momentum.

Exit polls have found that in major races across the country — in states like Virginia, New Jersey, New York, and California — the economy and affordability were the biggest issues that drove voters to the polls.

An NPB News poll from October suggests that 63 percent of registered voters believe the Trump administration has fallen short when it comes to the economy.

As part of our weekly series on the state of democracy, If You Can Keep It, we dive into some of the biggest local races and what they tell us about the issues that matter most to you – and what Democrats and Republicans can take away from this year’s results.

But first, we dive into a potential deal to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history that has some critics claiming Senate Democrats are caving to President Trump.

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0:00.0	There's a battle playing out over who should control American universities.
0:04.9	We're going to bankrupt these universities.
0:07.3	In season one, we were guessing what was to come.
0:10.1	Now we know.
0:11.2	We want $500 million from Harvard.
0:13.9	It's season two of The Harvard Plan.
0:16.0	This time, it really is personal.
0:18.3	Listen to On the Media wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	You're listening to the 1A podcast.
0:31.0	I'm Jen White.
0:31.9	And I'm Todd's Willick.
0:35.7	The longest government shutdown in history could be ending soon.
0:39.3	Last night, senators voted 60 to 40 to begin debating on a spending bill to reopen the government. A coalition of eight Democrats broke with their party and voted
0:44.4	with Republicans on the measure. Here's Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota.
0:49.2	From the truly precarious situation we are in with regard to air travel to the fact that our
0:53.3	staffs have been working without pay for a full 40 days now. All of us, Republicans and Democrats, who support this
1:00.0	bill, know that the time to act is now. Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York
1:05.3	voted no, along with the majority of his party. I must vote no. This health care crisis is so severe,
1:12.7	so urgent, so devastating for families back home that I cannot in good faith support this CR.
1:19.6	But many Democrats are unhappy with Schumer and his inability to rally all members of his party.
1:25.8	Those unhappy with the deal includes some of the biggest winners from last week's election,
1:29.9	newly elected New York mayor, Zoran Mandani,
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