A panel of regular MSNBC hosts — including Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell and Rachel Maddow — spent some time during their election night recap questioning whether or not the ballroom President Donald Trump is building at the White House had been part of the reason Republicans fared so poorly in several high stakes elections.
The major elections in play were the New York City mayoral election, the New Jersey gubernatorial election, and several key elections in Virginia — and all of them were won handily by the Democrats (or the Democratic socialist, in the case of New York City) in those races. And according to O&#8217;Donnell, he&#8217;d heard from at least one voter who cited &#8220;the demolition&#8221; being done in the White House&#8217;s East Wing — to prepare for Trump&#8217;s ballroom plans — as his motivation for getting out to the polls.
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BRAINWORMS: MSNBC, on two occasions, gave credence to the idea of ballroom construction being a factor in tonight&#8217;s election results <a href="https://t.co/WyYnV43qnN">pic.twitter.com/WyYnV43qnN</a>
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&#8220;Rachel, I was struck by something Vaughn Hilliard reported from a voter in New Jersey, saying that this voter was out there today voting because of, quote, this is what Vaughn said, the phrase he used, &#8216;the White House demolition,'&#8221; Lawrence said. &#8220;Donald Trump tearing down the East Wing of the White House — that sent a voter to the polls in New Jersey. Surely it sent thousands of voters to polls all around the country.&#8221;
&#8220;And the mind reels at how many ways, if you&#8217;re a Republican candidate, Donald Trump can ruin your campaign any day of your campaign,&#8221; he added, clearly amused by his own assessment, and several others on the panel laughed as he continued. &#8220;Let&#8217;s just assume Donald Trump was determined to do this to the White House. No one in the Republican Party could say to him, &#8216;Could you wait until November 5th? Could you just — November 5th. Don&#8217;t do anything before then.'&#8221;

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President Donald Trump claimed on Thursday that Democrats, if they returned to power, would waste no time in remaking the Supreme Court in its entirety. Two key figures on the Left — former Attorney General Eric Holder and longtime Democratic strategist James Carville — appear to be on the same page.
&#8220;The Democrats will terminate the Filibuster in THE FIRST HOUR, if and when they assume &#8216;control&#8217; or power. Republicans have what the Democrats want — We should do it, NOW, and have the greatest three years in History!&#8221; Trump said Thursday via his Truth Social platform, largely in an effort to prompt Republicans to force an end to the ongoing government shutdown.
Carville essentially predicted exactly that on his &#8220;Politics War Room&#8221; podcast Thursday morning.
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🚨NEW: James Carville says he&#8217;d &#8220;BET A LOT OF MONEY&#8221; that Dems will *PACK SUPREME COURT* if they regain power in 2028🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/SQRQntC6Nj">pic.twitter.com/SQRQntC6Nj</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1986454405042843670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I want to talk to Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Alito, Justice Barrett, Justice Kavanaugh, Justice Gorsuch, I might be forgetting one,&#8221; Carville began, likely omitting Justice Clarence Thomas from his list of more conservative members of the Supreme Court.
&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna tell you what&#8217;s gonna happen. A Democrat is gonna be elected in 2028, you know that, I know that,&#8221; he declared. &#8220;There&#8217;s gonna be a Democratic House, there&#8217;s gonna be a Democratic Senate. The Democratic president is gonna announce a special transition advisory committee on the reform of the Supreme Court.&#8221;
Carville said they would claim that the Supreme Court &#8220;has lost the faith and trust of the American people&#8221; and use that to justify recommending packing the court to restore &#8220;balance&#8221; and thus restore faith in the institution. And while he did not explicitly predict the end of the filibuster, it is far more likely that Democrats would have a simple majority in the Senate rather than a filibuster-proof majority going into 2028 — meaning that in order to pass such a controversial measure, they might be forced to first address the filibuster.
&#8220;They&#8217;re going to recommend that the number of Supreme Court Justices go from nine to 13. That&#8217;s gonna happen, people,&#8221; he insisted. &#8220;That&#8217;s gonna happen to you. They&#8217;re going to win, they&#8217;re gonna do some blue ribbon panel of distinguished jurists, and they&#8217;re going to recommend 13 and a Democratic Senate and House are going to pass it and the Democratic president is going to sign it, because they have to do an intervention so we can have a Supreme Court that the American people trust again.&#8221;
&#8220;I would bet a lot of money that that&#8217;s gonna happen,&#8221; he said.
Holder said something similar just two days earlier, claiming that the district court judges had been doing a great job in trying to check President Trump — but that the Supreme Court was damaging its own reputation.
&#8220;It pains me to do this, but I think the Supreme Court is a broken institution,&#8221; he said, and much like Carville said, he argued that if Democrats control the House, Senate, and White House, they would have to do something to address the fact that the court persists in ruling against Democrat interests.
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Former AG Eric Holder says that SCOTUS is a &#8220;broken institution&#8221; now that they&#8217;ve ruled in favor of the Trump administration on key cases.
Translation: When/If Democrats retake control of DC, they will immediately move to abolish the filibuster and pack the court.
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— Media Lies (@MediasLies) <a href="https://twitter.com/MediasLies/status/1985732240781799445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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According to a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjHoVmenp-o">CBS News/YouGov poll</a>, Americans believe the blame for the ongoing government shutdown should be spread out pretty evenly between President Donald Trump, Democrats, and Republicans — but if legacy media outlets were not doing yeoman&#8217;s work on behalf of the Democrats, might the people see the situation differently?
According to a <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2025/11/05/study-tv-news-spends-shutdown-playing-defense-democrats">study published</a> by the Media Research Center, broadcast coverage on the three major networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) went out of the way to avoid any commentary that might suggest the Democrats were in any way responsible for the shutdown.
MRC pulled data from the evening news broadcasts across all three networks throughout the entire month of October — the first 31 days of the shutdown — and found that there had been 67 reports that addressed the topic. On those 67 reports, the overwhelming majority of the coverage — 87% — presented a positive view of Democrats. That imbalance translated to 83 statements that criticized Republicans over their role in the shutdown, versus only 12 statements that delivered similar criticisms of Democrats.
In addition, the networks appeared wholly disinterested in digging into how the shutdown had begun — and largely avoided addressing the number of times Democrats had voted to keep the government shut down despite being offered the opportunity to vote for a &#8220;clean&#8221; Continuing Resolution (CR), as well as separate legislation that would fund payment for members of the military or SNAP benefits.
&#8220;On both ABC and CBS, only 12.5 percent of reports on either network mentioned this basic detail,&#8221; the MRC report read, referencing the Democrats&#8217; repeated votes against a clean CR. &#8220;On NBC, that fact was included in just 31 percent of newscasts.&#8221;
When votes were mentioned, occasionally the parties were left out entirely, leaving the viewers to draw their own conclusion about where the roadblocks lay. Correspondent Tom Costello, for example, delivered the following line on October 30, as fears began to mount about travel disruptions due to a shortage of air traffic controllers: &#8220;Delta and United [Airlines] also urged Congress to pass a clean resolution, known as a CR, to end the shutdown,&#8221; he said – but his statement leaves out the fact that a clean CR has already come up for a vote in the Senate more than a dozen times – and that Democrats were the ones voting against it.
Costello did finally point out the fact that the airlines were backing the Republicans on this particular issue — but not until he made an appearance the next morning on &#8220;TODAY,&#8221; MRC noted.
Even CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper had to marvel at just how effective the messaging had been — and he conceded that Democrats were largely responsible for the shutdown, even if they&#8217;d managed to convince the people otherwise.
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CNN exposes Democrats for shutting down the government and trying to mislead the American people.
JAKE TAPPER: &#8220;Democrats are the ones that are not voting to fund the government&#8230;&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/9sTlM9hCwI">pic.twitter.com/9sTlM9hCwI</a>
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&#8220;Democrats are the ones that are not voting to fund the government. Now, I understand why they’re doing so, they’re doing so because of health care and they want to fight, and they want Republicans to negotiate, et cetera, et cetera,” Tapper said on Tuesday. &#8220;The messaging by Democrats around this shutdown has been sharper than I’ve seen Democrats on any issue in a long time.&#8221;
&#8220;They have convinced voters, Democratic voters and independent voters, that it’s the Republicans’ fault. And just on the numbers, that might not be actually accurate in terms of who’s voting to open the government and who isn’t,&#8221; he added.

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Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville took a page out of George Bernard Shaw&#8217;s &#8220;Pygmalion&#8221; and gave it a sickening twist, claiming on Wednesday that he could recruit a &#8220;convicted pedophile&#8221; and coach that candidate to a win over a Republican.
Carville — the brains behind former President Bill Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;it&#8217;s the economy, stupid&#8221; — cracked the off-color &#8220;joke&#8221; on his &#8220;Politics War Room&#8221; podcast in the wake of sweeping victories for Democrats in Tuesday&#8217;s elections. The joke was primarily a reference to Virginia Attorney General-elect Jay Jones, who won his election despite the revelation that he had once texted a colleague about wishing violence on a political opponent.
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🚨NEW: James Carville jokes about running &#8220;CONVICTED PEDOPHILE&#8221; after Dems elect Jay Jones🚨
&#8220;I&#8217;m personally gonna find a convicted pedophile and run him in a race just to see if he could beat a Republican.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/TezDWiiz7h">pic.twitter.com/TezDWiiz7h</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1986144071673352355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Laughing as he laid out his plan, Carville said, &#8220;I’m personally going to find a convicted pedophile and run him in a race just to see if he could beat a Republican. I’m not sure. I’m not going to say that a convicted pedophile could win.&#8221;
&#8220;And by the way, the guy that was running against [Jones] ran a pretty good campaign,&#8221; Carville said, speaking of incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares (R-VA). &#8220;He ran ads &#8230; if you think &#8230; the most interesting thing, drum roll, I&#8217;m going to give y&#8217;all the most interesting piece of news of the cycle, even more interesting than Bucks County. The Republican legislator who released the texts lost. And Jay won.&#8221;
Carville continued to laugh as he added, &#8220;I mean it&#8217;s just — just a little tidbit. Hey, you got some baggage out there with Trump, people. Just know that.”
Carville made headlines recently when he argued that President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;collaborators&#8221; should be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/james-carville-fantasizes-about-trump-collaborators-paraded-in-the-streets-like-post-war-nazis">treated like Nazis</a> in post-war Europe, and be paraded through the streets in orange jumpsuits with their heads shaved so that the people could spit on them.

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James Carville Says He Could Coach A 'Convicted Pedophile' And Beat Republicans

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Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) tore into Virginia Attorney General-elect Jay Jones — who won Tuesday’s election despite the cloud of scandal that threatened to engulf him — on Wednesday, saying that he was no less concerned about Jones’ ability to carry out the duties of his office in an unbiased manner.
Youngkin mentioned the scandal that had followed Jones, stemming from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/is-the-virginia-way-dead-ag-jason-miyares-breaks-down-whats-really-at-stake-in-jay-jones-race">text messages</a> he’d sent three years earlier that advocated the assassination of then-state House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican, and suggested that Gilbert and his wife should have to watch one of their young children die.
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&#8220;I am incredibly concerned about the Attorney General elect&#8217;s to do the job based on the text that he sent. They were abhorrent, and I think that they, once again, reiterate that you can&#8217;t come into this job, if… <a href="https://t.co/btyNg2qgtE">pic.twitter.com/btyNg2qgtE</a>
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“I am incredibly concerned about the Attorney General-elect’s ability to do the job based on the texts that he sent. They were abhorrent, and I think that they, once again, reiterate that you can’t come into this job if you are espousing death on a political enemy, the death of children, and the death of law enforcement,” Youngkin posted on X.
“And I believe, just as I&#8217;ve always believed that that disqualifies him for the job,” the governor continued. “The next administration&#8217;s going to have to figure out how to deal with that because they have law enforcement, that they&#8217;re going to need to make sure, feel good about doing the job. They&#8217;re going to have to make sure that parents with children feel safe.”
“And that’s going to be a challenge going forward. My position has not changed; that there is absolutely no excuse for what he wrote. None. And we live in a society today that I think has lost its way, at least some folks have, on their willingness to almost accept violence and political violence as a solution,” Youngkin concluded.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears lost her bid for the governor’s mansion on Tuesday, meaning that Youngkin will soon be replaced by Democrat <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spanberger-still-sells-merchandise-with-jay-joness-name-despite-attempts-to-distance-campaigns">Abigail Spanberger</a>, who initially condemned Jones’ text messages, but stopped short of calling for him to step away from the race.

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Minneapolis Democratic incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey successfully defended his office despite a challenge from his left in Democratic socialist Omar Fateh, the candidate some have compared to New York City&#8217;s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Minneapolis uses ranked-choice voting, and Frey was able to pull together majority support after the third round of tabulation. After the first round, he already had a clear lead over Fateh — 41.8% to 31.7%.
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Tabulation is complete for the Mayor. Jacob Frey is the unofficial winner. <a href="https://t.co/KTODcbQebb">https://t.co/KTODcbQebb</a>
— Minneapolis Elections &amp; Voter Services (@VoteMpls) <a href="https://twitter.com/VoteMpls/status/1986125347428180150?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Throughout the campaign, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-omar-fateh-the-radical-somali-american-democratic-socialist-running-for-minneapolis-mayor">the Somali-American</a> attempted to capitalize on the type of messaging that had made Mamdani resonate in New York City — but with more limited success.
Among other things, he promised on the campaign trail to make Minneapolis the &#8220;last line of defense&#8221; against President Donald Trump and a &#8220;safe haven&#8221; for everything from illegal immigrants and abortions to transgender hormones and surgeries.
Fateh took direct aim at Frey on his campaign website, saying, &#8220;With Donald Trump back in the Oval Office, the progress towards equity and justice that our communities have worked so hard to create is in jeopardy. Mayor Frey has said that our approach to fighting Trump is extreme — he’s wrong.&#8221;
The Democratic socialist also adopted similar policy positions to Mamdani&#8217;s on making things — housing in particular — more affordable, promising to implement a rent freeze if elected, and calling for additional expenditures on housing designated for &#8220;LGBTQ+ and BIPOC people,” because he said they were “some of the highest at risk for losing their housing, being over-criminalized by [Minneapolis police], and being harassed by their employer.&#8221;
Fateh was initially endorsed by the local Democratic Party in the Minneapolis mayoral race over Mayor Frey.
&#8220;This endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual. It’s a mandate to build a city that works for all of us,&#8221; Fateh said at the time.
But Frey argued that the endorsement was unlawful due to the process by which the group had voted, and that resulted in the Constitution, Bylaws &amp; Rules Committee of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) withdrawing the endorsement later.

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‘Minnesota Mamdani’ Omar Fateh Loses Election Bid In Minneapolis

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U.S. District Judge James Boasberg got hit with the business end of articles of impeachment on Tuesday stemming from his role in efforts — undertaken by former President Joe Biden&#8217;s Justice Department — to investigate and undermine President Donald Trump and his allies.
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) filed the articles on Tuesday, saying in an X post, &#8220;I just filed Articles of Impeachment against radical activist Judge James Boasberg. Judge Boasberg abused his power by weaponizing the judiciary against critics of the Biden Administration. As part of the Arctic Frost Investigation, Judge Boasberg signed off on frivolous nondisclosure orders to conceal the fact that sitting US Senators were being surveilled. Not only was this action egregiously improper; it was a gross violation of the separation of powers. Judge Boasberg is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, is unfit for office, and should be impeached.&#8221;
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I just filed Articles of Impeachment against radical activist Judge James Boasberg.
Judge Boasberg abused his power by weaponizing the judiciary against critics of the Biden Administration. As part of the Arctic Frost Investigation, Judge Boasberg signed off on frivolous… <a href="https://t.co/2d3Wxd37wk">pic.twitter.com/2d3Wxd37wk</a>
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Gill filed the articles after learning that Boasberg was the one who signed off on subpoenas that facilitated the surveillance of multiple Republicans in Congress — and barred anyone from informing those members that they were the subject of subpoenas.
&#8220;Chief Judge Boasberg has compromised the impartiality of the judiciary and created a constitutional crisis. He is shamelessly weaponizing his power against his political opponents, including Republican members of Congress who are faithfully serving the American people within their jurisdiction,&#8221; Gill told Fox News Digital in a statement.
&#8220;Judge Boasberg was an accomplice in the egregious Arctic Frost scandal where he equipped the Biden DOJ to spy on Republican senators. His lack of integrity makes him clearly unfit for the gavel. I am proud to once again introduce articles of impeachment against Judge Boasberg to hold him accountable for his high crimes and misdemeanors,&#8221; he added.
The news of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-biden-dojs-watergate-arctic-frost-docs-reveal-massive-operation-targeting-trump-allies">Arctic Frost</a> broke a week earlier, when Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed that the FBI — with the approval of then Attorney General Merrick Garland — had requested some 400 subpoenas relating to 200 Republicans, and had subpoenaed bank records from major Republican donors, PACs, and even Mike Lindell&#8217;s MyPillow.

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Judge Who’s Been Trump Foil Slapped With Articles Of Impeachment Over Arctic Frost Orders

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Ben Shapiro urged New Yorkers to consider the consequences as they headed to the polls on Tuesday to choose a new mayor, pressing them to vote for former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) in an effort to prevent self-described Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani from gaining a foothold in the Big Apple.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s editor emeritus opened his eponymous show on Tuesday with a plea to voters to see through Mamdani&#8217;s &#8220;acting&#8221; and understand the threat he posed to America&#8217;s financial hub — and to understand that even though Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa might be a more ideologically sound choice, a vote for him would likely accomplish little if anything.
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On the show today:
It&#8217;s election day in New York City. Will New Yorkers commit political suicide?
Plus, elections in New Jersey and Virginia could decide the future of the Democratic Party,
and Nick Fuentes touts his victory over JD Vance.
Watch here: <a href="https://t.co/JrWOHVzl0e">https://t.co/JrWOHVzl0e</a>
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1985769862254227776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Alright, folks, it&#8217;s Election Day in New York City, and the question on everyone&#8217;s mind: will Zohran Mamdani — the pro-jihadist, pro-Marxist candidate for Mayor of New York, be elected mayor of the world&#8217;s financial capital?&#8221; Shapiro began.
&#8220;And one of the questions I sort of have to ask here, is if you&#8217;re a Sliwa voter, who are you and why?&#8221; Shapiro continued. &#8220;Truly, because what is the point of your vote? OK, we get it. You don&#8217;t like Cuomo and you don&#8217;t like Mamdani either. OK, welcome to Planet Earth, where most people don&#8217;t like either Cuomo or Mamdani. But I just, I&#8217;m just wondering, what do you get by voting for Curtis Sliwa at this point?&#8221;
&#8220;Do you get one of those hats? Like what precisely is the draw to vote for Curtis Sliwa?&#8221; Shapiro asked. &#8220;Curtis is fine, don&#8217;t get me wrong, and if you&#8217;re in a rational city, maybe he might have an outside shot at being mayor of New York, but he doesn&#8217;t. So what are you doing? If you take your vote and you put it in the Sliwa box, that is a vote effectively for Zoran Mamdani, period. End of story.&#8221;
Shapiro went on to reference a recent Atlas Intel poll that showed Mamdani besting Cuomo — but that in a head-to-head match up, Cuomo would be the likely victor.
&#8220;In that poll, by the way, Sliwa is claiming 15.5% support,&#8221; Shapiro added, noting that the same poll showed Sliwa siphoning the votes that would likely boost Cuomo to victory. &#8220;Guys, no, don&#8217;t do this, don&#8217;t do it. It is not worth whatever points you think you are scoring by not voting for Andrew Cuomo.&#8221;
&#8220;Listen, I don&#8217;t like Andrew Cuomo either,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I think Andrew Cuomo was a terrible governor of New York. I don&#8217;t understand for the life of me why the mayoralty of New York came down to the guy who killed all the old people and grabbed ass and ran out of old people, and an outright third-worlder, I don&#8217;t understand.&#8221;
&#8220;When I say third world, I mean like as a philosophy,&#8221; he clarified. &#8220;Like Zohran Mamdani is a third-worldist, meaning he believes that all the poor places on earth are the fault of Western civilization. He believes that the only reason that there are failing parts of planet Earth is because of colonialism, and because of Western imperialism and capitalism and all that kind of nonsense. So, those are your two choices, but voting for Curtis Sliwa ain&#8217;t gonna fix that.&#8221;

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Ben Shapiro Rips Into Mamdani As Election Day Unfolds: ‘Will New Yorkers Commit Political Suicide?’

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A legal immigrant unloaded on Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani (D-NYC), saying that he couldn&#8217;t get over how &#8220;phony&#8221; the self-described Democratic socialist had been while on the campaign trail.
The conversation took place on &#8220;The Morning Meeting&#8221; podcast with hosts Mark Halperin, Dan Turrentine, and Sean Spicer as voters headed to the polls in New York City — where Mamdani was squaring off against former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), who is running as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa.
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🚨NEW: Immigrant *LOSES IT* on &#8220;PHONY&#8221; Zohran Mamdani🚨
&#8220;Upper-class Zohran Mamdani eating with his hands — and that fake Ugandan accent — is the phoniest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen! And it just makes my head explode!&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/O3MC5GsN0z">pic.twitter.com/O3MC5GsN0z</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1985782771051348070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Toward the end of the show, the hosts took questions and comments from several who were on the stream — and one took aim immediately at Mamdani.
&#8220;My family and I, we came to the U.S. when I was seven years old,&#8221; he said. &#8220;As you can hear, I have a perfect American accent — as does Zohran Mamdani. And then the other day, I heard him speak in this Ugandan accent, and where did that come from?&#8221;
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&#8220;Just this weird little thing I&#8217;d like to point out,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That controversy, when he was eating rice with his hands. That&#8217;s actually very common in the Philippines, but it&#8217;s only poor Filipinos who do it. A well-to-do Filipino would not be caught dead eating rice with his hands.&#8221;
&#8220;Upper-class Zohran Mamdani eating with his hands — and that fake Ugandan accent — is the phoniest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen! And it just makes my head explode!&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Even more than the free buses and free this and free that, what makes my head explode is that the guy is so phony, and nobody cares!&#8221;

Mamdani

‘So Phony!’: Legal Immigrant Trashes Mamdani, Says ‘It Just Makes My Head Explode’

'So Phony!': Legal Immigrant Trashes Mamdani, Says 'It Just Makes My Head Explode'

Immigrants

Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher appeared taken aback when his guest, actor Michael Rapaport, revealed just how unsafe people feel in New York City — even during the daylight hours.
Rapaport joined Maher on his &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast, where he described a number of situations in which his wife had felt unsafe in New York City — and then told Maher that every scenario he&#8217;d described had taken place between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
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🚨NEW: Bill Maher *STUNNED* as Actor Michael Rappaport tells him how unsafe NYC feels🚨
RAPPAPORT: &#8220;I want people to feel safe in New York City. I want my wife to feel safe. My wife is a tough broad — she doesn&#8217;t feel safe in Midtown Manhattan during the day!&#8221;
MAHER: &#8220;Really!?&#8221;… <a href="https://t.co/6xMwi4b2hu">pic.twitter.com/6xMwi4b2hu</a>
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&#8220;I want people to feel safe in New York City. I want my wife to feel safe. My wife is a tough broad — she doesn&#8217;t feel safe in Midtown Manhattan during the day!&#8221; Rapaport began.
&#8220;Really!?&#8221; Maher appeared surprised.
&#8220;Yeah,&#8221; Rapaport confirmed.
&#8220;Really, like going out for lunch?&#8221; Maher asked, still apparently in disbelief.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying she&#8217;s f***ing shaking in her boots,&#8221; Rapaport clarified, and then described several scenes: &#8220;My wife in the last two or three years has been groped in Times Square, has had a f***ing shoe thrown at her, has been called the N-word and got proposed to on the train by a homeless person — all between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.&#8221;
&#8220;And when my wife got touched in the middle of the day coming out of a play, I&#8217;m not happy with that,&#8221; Rapaport continued. &#8220;I don&#8217;t care that you&#8217;re homeless! Don&#8217;t touch my f***ing wife! It bothered me so deeply that this happened to her, and that she&#8217;s got a shoe thrown at her &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Why a shoe?&#8221; Maher wanted to know.
&#8220;Because a crazy person,&#8221; Rapaport replied. &#8220;Crazy. But when you touch my wife, and my wife is violated, I get to thinking, I&#8217;m sorry that you&#8217;re mentally ill. I&#8217;m sorry that whatever you&#8217;re on, and whatever got you to this place, but you&#8217;re touching my wife at 3 p.m. at 47th and 6th. I want this person put the f*** away forever. Period! And there&#8217;s other women in New York City that also feel uncomfortable and unsafe.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m comfortable saying, &#8216;Put him under the f***ing jail.&#8217; And he should never come out — &#8217;cause God forbid he comes out and does something worse!&#8221; Rapaport concluded, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s not cool for women to feel unsafe during the daytime in the greatest city on earth.&#8221;

Bill Maher

‘Really?’: Bill Maher Shocked To Hear How Unsafe NYC Has Become — Even In Broad Daylight

'Really?': Bill Maher Shocked To Hear How Unsafe NYC Has Become — Even In Broad Daylight

Michael Rapaport

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) suggested on Sunday evening that he might file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission over the fact that President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview with Norah O&#8217;Donnell was edited for time.
Citing the lawsuit filed by Trump over a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview of former Vice President Kamala Harris — just days before the 2024 presidential election — Schumer claimed that he could simply copy and paste the complaint from that lawsuit.
&#8220;Maybe I should file a complaint with the FCC against the Trump White House for editing his unhinged 60 Minutes interview. It will use the exact same language Trump lodged against Vice President Harris,&#8221; Schumer posted via X.
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Maybe I should file a complaint with the FCC against the Trump White House for editing his unhinged 60 Minutes interview.
It will use the exact same language Trump lodged against Vice President Harris.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1985230247093047608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The president&#8217;s rapid response team shot down Schumer&#8217;s claim, however, saying that the edits were not at all the same.
&#8220;They deceptively edited Kamala’s answers to make her look somewhat coherent ahead of an election, you moron — then wouldn’t release the transcript/unedited interview. That’s not the same as editing for time constraints (AND the transcript/unedited interview were both released),&#8221; their response read.
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They deceptively edited Kamala’s answers to make her look somewhat coherent ahead of an election, you moron — then wouldn’t release the transcript/unedited interview.
That’s not the same as editing for time constraints (AND the transcript/unedited interview were both released). <a href="https://t.co/O9sydtk0Br">https://t.co/O9sydtk0Br</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1985369117235597822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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They and others quickly pointed out the fact that CBS had edited the Harris interview in order to make her sound less incoherent — and then had proceeded to slow-roll the release of the full transcript and unedited video. Trump&#8217;s interview, on the other hand, had been published in full along with the transcript on the day the interview aired.
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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr flipped the script on Schumer, saying that as long as he and other Democrats insisted on voting to keep the federal government shut down, the FCC would not be able to address his complaint.
&#8220;Due to the Schumer Shutdown, even your frivolous filing could not be processed by the FCC. But seriously, you should end the Schumer Shutdown-which is imposing real pain on American families-rather than nonsense posting. You should open the government, rather than using Americans&#8217; pain to pander to your far left flank,&#8221; Carr posted.
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Due to the Schumer Shutdown, even your frivolous filing could not be processed by the FCC.
But seriously, you should end the Schumer Shutdown-which is imposing real pain on American families-rather than nonsense posting.
You should open the government, rather than using… <a href="https://t.co/bMzDPQNdVo">https://t.co/bMzDPQNdVo</a>
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1985372971574145280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Maybe you should stop posting nonsense at 1:19AM in the morning and open the government,&#8221; Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) added.
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Maybe you should stop posting nonsense at 1:19AM in the morning and open the government. <a href="https://t.co/ryUL6Jwztv">https://t.co/ryUL6Jwztv</a> <a href="https://t.co/QQKxktFXPw">pic.twitter.com/QQKxktFXPw</a>
— Rep. Mike Collins (@RepMikeCollins) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMikeCollins/status/1985353360757940309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said, &#8220;Why don’t you open the Government, quit trying to starve poor folks and help us fix the broken healthcare system you helped create.&#8221;

Chuck Schumer

Schumer Wants To File Complaint About ’60 Minutes’ Editing Trump Interview, White House Fires Back

60 Minutes

Kamala Harris

Lawsuit

The Democrat brand, according to CNN&#8217;s chief data analyst Harry Enten, is &#8220;in the basement&#8221; — with multiple polls showing that Americans in near record numbers have an unfavorable view of the party and that no clear leader has emerged to potentially carry the Democrats through the next presidential election.
Enten delivered the news during a Monday appearance on &#8220;CNN News Central,&#8221; where he spoke with anchor Kate Bolduan about the obvious issues plaguing the Democratic Party.
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&#8220;It is total and complete garbage in the mind of the American public.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/7zV62UvT4x">pic.twitter.com/7zV62UvT4x</a>
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&#8220;Democrats at this point are historically divided. It is a complete and utter mess. It is messier than a hoarder’s basement. What are we talking about here? The national early poll leader — 25% plus,&#8221; Enten began, noting that Democrats typically had a standout potential candidate at this point in a regular election cycle. &#8220;Normally, that’s where Democrats are. [Joe] Biden was at 25% plus in 2020. Hillary Clinton was in ’08 and ’16. [Al] Gore was in ’00 and ’04.&#8221;
&#8220;At this particular point, there is no one — no one — in the Democratic race for president who’s polling at 25% plus. The water is quite warm. If you’re a Democrat potentially thinking about running in 2028, jump right in — because at this point there is no front-runner,&#8221; Enten continued.
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Bolduan pressed him on that point, asking whether he thought the lack of a clear frontrunner had any connection to the fact that so many Americans saw the party in a negative light — and Enten agreed.
&#8220;I think that that is in large part what’s going on is one of the reasons why there is no front-runner, nobody wants to put anybody up at the top of their ballot list, is because at this particular point, the Democratic brand is in the basement. It is total and complete garbage in the mind of the American public,&#8221; he explained.
&#8220;The Democratic Party’s net favorable rating — record lows in all three. Wall Street Journal, 30 points underwater. CNN, 26 points underwater. Gallup, 26 points underwater. And that is being driven in large part by discontent within the Democratic base,&#8221; Enten explained. &#8220;The Democratic base wants something different.&#8221;

‘Total And Complete Garbage’: CNN Pollster Says The Democrat Brand Is ‘In The Basement’

'Total And Complete Garbage': CNN Pollster Says The Democrat Brand Is 'In The Basement'

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