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Morning and glory and evening, Grace, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. It's Wednesday, the day after the election and the Republicans got thumped, to quote George W. Bush in 2006. And because the GOP got thumped, there's nobody person to talk to than Congressman Tom Swazzi, Democrat of New York. But he's sort of like me, except he's wrong about politics. He's Catholic, a lawyer. He's...

But you're a CPA. I'm on a CPA, too. I'm not a CPA. I'm not a CPA. But I heard about you

from our mutual friend. He said, oh gosh, you guys are the same person by different mother. No, he's

wrong about everything. But I want to get the view from a Democrat about what

happened last night and why. And by the way, how's your hangover with Comrade Mom Dani as your mayor now?

Yeah, that's going to be a big issue. But I don't, I, I came out against Mom Dani. I came out

for Cuomo instead, which wasn't easy to do itself. So did I, which was really hard to do.

I say I'm a Democratic capitalist, not a Democratic socialist.

There you go.

Listen, the Democrats won, Mamdani won, Cheryl won, Spamberger one,

much for the same reason as Donald Trump won.

They talked about affordability of the cost of living.

That's what people care about. That's the number one. If you poll the American people who say, what is the issue you care about the most? They're going to say affordability. And so that's what they all talked about. Now, I disagree with the prescriptions that Mamdani made. I'm more inclined to go along with Cheryl and Spanberger.berger uh but you know that's that's if democrats can get back to focusing on the issue of affordability they'll do much better

and they should they have to talk about the things people care but what do people care about they

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