US Politics

Kermit.de.frog

Tried to find a general US politics thread.

Anyway, there are elections today most notably for New York mayor that may provide a bit of a barometer on where the nation stands.

Guardian live blog here. Should be streams of the counts later.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/nov/04/us-elections-2025-live-new-york-city-new-jersey-virginia-california-latest-news-updates-live?filterKeyEvents=false#maincontent

Mamdani is a bit of a rare exotic species here like Bernie Sanders for American politics - came from nowhere, appeals to the yoof - a "Democratic SOCIALIST" (Communist in American English) set to destroy New York.

With Mamdani likely to win expect some fireworks from Trump later on.

Also California is rigged etc...

I'm here for it 😀

Rjd2

Nothing wrong with criticizing Zohran on his policies and whether he can implement them in what's likely to be a hostile environment if he wins, but the racism it has triggered from MAGA has been deeply unpleasant, for that reason alone I hope he wins.

Podge_irl

There is a chasmic difference between them. One is a pretty bog standard politician and one is currently dismantling everything the US used to stand for and destroying the very threads holding the country together. That is a bit different from promising rent controls.

For Petes Sake

Virginia Governor looks like it's flipping to the Democrats and quite substantially.

Rjd2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963674#Comment_123963674

Her opponent spent millions on anti trans advertisements and well yeah that didn't work out.

It would be silly to read to much into these results, those who voted Dems haven't turned into hardcore leftists overnight, heck plenty of them may vote GOP in the near future, but "its the economy stupid" is still as relevant as ever in 2025 and after voters got the fake populism of Trump, their is an opening here for the dems to do very well.

Brendan Bendar

Mamdani elected MoNY.That was the 'easy part.

This lad is of the 'left wing' Democrat,Muslim, x rapper born Uganda and his main plank for getting elected was to reduce the cost of living in NYC …state subsidies for stores …free public transport… reduced rents etc.

What interests me now is ..can he achieve his promises?

It will be a bit comparable with our situation in Ireland where the left wing have been promising broadly similar stuff.

Lets see if the implementation matches the rhetoric.

I wish him luck with that.