Happy Thursday and welcome to another episode of the Chuck Toddcast.

I've got a pretty packed episode for you.

We're going to do a rundown of what's going on around the country and the states, some state politics of what's happening with AI.

And in fact, it ties into something else I'm going to get to in a minute,

the big beautiful bill and whether what it's going to look like and whether it has any chance

of ever becoming popular. But look, I'm going to start with what is still a seismic earthquake

inside the Democratic Party. And that is the victory by Zoran Mamdani in the Democratic primary.

Apparent victory.

I mean, we got to remind folks, we still haven't had the retabulation in the New York

City mayor's race.

You know, let me throw a bizarre what if out there.

There's an assumption, and I think it's a correct assumption based on the polling we've

seen and certainly the campaign strategies the candidates had of trying to convince their

supporters not to even rank Cuomo in some places and things like that. certainly the campaign strategies the candidates had of trying to convince their supporters

not to even rank Cuomo in some places and things like that.

But let me just throw out a what if here.

If Cuomo closes the gap to just a couple of points and ends up losing the primary

after ranked choice voting, more like that 5149 or a 5248, is that what they're waiting for to see whether

Cuomo will decide to run in a general election? But look, let's, it certainly everybody is behaving

today as if that's not going to happen. And that Mondani is going to be the Democratic nominee.

The question is, what kind of general election is it going to be?

But before we get to that on the New York City side of things, it's been interesting how Democrats

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