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System Update with Glenn Greenwald

Why Did Zohran Win & What Does it Mean?

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

Rumble

Politics, News

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Glenn breaks down the NYC election results and discusses what Zohran Mamdani's victory means for the future of the city and Democratic politics. Plus: Breitbart's John Carney discusses his articles explaning Mamdani's popularity among downwardly mobile Park Slope young professionals. 

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0:00.0

Good evening. It's Wednesday, November 5th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

0:26.6

Tonight, in New York City last night, voters delivered an overwhelming and decisive victory to Zoan Mondani, who very few people even in New York City politics had heard of less than a year ago,

0:39.1

and he's now going to be mayor of America's largest city.

0:42.6

The last night, a witness day virtually complete sweep of victories for Democrats in places like

0:49.3

New Jersey, Virginia, even in Georgia.

0:51.9

It was Mandani's status as a very outspoken critic of Israel, along

0:56.0

with being the first ever Muslim to be elected to lead America's largest city and to self-describe

1:01.1

socialist politics, which provoked an intense and often sometimes utterly unhinged national

1:06.9

discourse about his candidacy and now about his victory. We'll examine what happened last night

1:13.1

and what it means. And we'll also speak to Breitbart's John Carney, who wrote one of the most

1:17.9

interesting and thoughtful analyses today of the voting box that actually delivered Mondani

1:22.8

this sweeping victory. And given that he's writing for Breitbart and other right-wing

1:27.1

journals focuses on right-wing,

1:32.5

journals focuses on right-wing misconceptions about exactly what that voting block is and why they voted for him.

1:34.4

Then former Vice President Dick Cheney died on Monday at the age of 84.

1:40.9

The tributes that poured in from virtually every major Democratic Party leader, including

1:46.0

past presidents and past Democratic nominees, and his large liberal news outlets went far beyond

1:54.0

standard consultances offered when a political leader dies.

1:57.0

In fact, these statements were so effusive that one would have thought that Dick Cheney was one of the most universally beloved and admired political statesman in American history.

2:06.4

But actually, the opposite was true.

2:08.5

Not all that long ago, relatively speaking, Cheney was at least as hated by liberal power centers while in power as Trump is hated by them today.

2:17.8

And Cheney was typically maligned in exactly the same terms as Trump is now, as some unique threat

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