Will there be buyer's remorse in NYC?
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech in New York City gave voters a clearer picture of who he really is. Will there be buyer's remorse? Hear from CNN's Van Jones and Scott Jennings.
Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator.
Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter.
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| 0:00.0 | It's identity politics. |
| 0:03.1 | It's look at me. |
| 0:04.3 | I'm not as well off as you. |
| 0:06.0 | I am struggling because I am Senegalese or an abuela or an auntie or Ethiopian. |
| 0:11.6 | This guy does not care about America. Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast. |
| 0:28.0 | A little bit different today with our wildcard Wednesday because we have to focus on last night's elections in New York, Virginia, New Jersey, and here in my home state, Minnesota. |
| 0:36.7 | All very depressing, but we have some thoughts on it |
| 0:40.8 | that we're going to get to. Quick note, you may hear some whimpering in the background. My dog, |
| 0:46.3 | Jersey, underwent ACL surgery. He's out for the season. And so he's in rehab and it hasn't been |
| 0:53.8 | going too well. Having said that, here we go, folks. |
| 0:58.1 | We knew Zohran Mandani was going to win last night. I mean, we pretty well knew that. There was a faint |
| 1:03.9 | hope that Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo, might sneak in there and steal some votes. He didn't. He didn't |
| 1:09.8 | run a good campaign. He got behind early |
| 1:12.5 | and he couldn't make up ground late. And this guy, Mom Dani, seems to have captured, but some sort of |
| 1:18.0 | imagination of the young people in New York City. I will say this. I have a dear friend who |
| 1:22.4 | lives in New York City. I texted him this morning. I said, what do you think of your new mayor? |
| 1:26.6 | And what I got back was the throwing up emoji. |
| 1:30.2 | So there are a lot of New Yorkers who are very, very worried. |
| 1:34.0 | And I think for very good reason, we've talked about this before. |
| 1:37.9 | He's a socialist. |
| 1:39.0 | He's a communist. |
| 1:40.6 | He's a Marxist. |
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