President Donald Trump leans on lawmakers to end the country’s longest government shutdown, leftist Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi finally hangs it up, and Border Patrol sets a new record on illegal crossings as officers face increased resistance.
It’s Friday, November 7, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mrn-251107">the video version can be seen on The Daily Wire</a>:
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Shutdown Enters Day 38</h2>
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Topline: The government shutdown has entered its 38th day, as Donald Trump puts new pressure on Republican leaders to invoke the nuclear option to bring an end to the stalemate. 
This is the longest shutdown in history. In the first month, unless they were federal employees or tourists in D.C., most Americans probably did not notice any significant impact on day-to-day life. But that could change by the end of this week with expected delays to air travel.
Air traffic controllers have been working without pay for more than a month now. Some have called in sick, resulting in serious staff shortages that are worsening by the day. Many of those who are on the job have been working long shifts, six days a week. As a result, starting Friday, the FAA will require at least 40 airports to cut back their flight offerings.
In total, the FAA says it’s reducing overall flight capacity by 4% on Friday, and eventually working up to 10% across what it calls “high traffic” areas. Hundreds of thousands of travelers are expected to be impacted.
Compromise coming? Republicans are holding firm, saying they will not agree to a budget that offers billions of taxpayer dollars for healthcare subsidies that will eventually make their way to illegal immigrants.
Democrats on the Hill huddled for a luncheon on Thursday afternoon to discuss their broader strategy. Another vote to potentially reopen the government may be held on Friday, according to a Senate source familiar with negotiations.
The Senate will have a procedural vote on the House-passed continuing resolution, and they’re hoping to amend it with a later end date, along with a three-bill spending package &#8211; otherwise known as a minibus.
The minibus includes three full-year appropriations bills: Agriculture-FDA, Military Construction-VA, and Legislative Branch. There is a chance the Senate Democrats could block it. Republicans need 60 votes, so five Democrats will have to vote with the GOP to reopen the government.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Pelosi Packs Up</h2>
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Topline: After several decades in Congress and two stints as the speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi has announced that she’s not running for re-election.
The timing of Pelosi’s announcement comes right after California voters approved Proposition 50, the state Democrats&#8217; initiative to redraw California’s congressional map, earlier this week.
It had been reported for weeks that Pelosi was debating whether to run for re-election, so the timing did not surprise many. But Pelosi’s departure will give other leftists in her San Francisco-based district room to launch their campaigns.
The response: President Trump had some strong words for his longtime adversary:
“I thought she was an evil woman who did a poor job, who cost the country a lot in damages and in reputation. I thought she was terrible,” Trump said of the news of Pelosi’s retirement.
President Trump also noted that Pelosi had lost grip of the party over time. Toward the end of her time in Congress, a rift had opened between her and some young progressives in her caucus, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has for some time been the one to navigate those inner-party battles. But Pelosi has still played a major role in shaping the political landscape, not only on Capitol Hill but nationwide as well. For instance, she played a significant role behind the scenes, pressuring then-President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.
Who comes next?: It is going to be open season in the Bay Area for her seat. A bevy of people have jumped in or shown interest. California state Senator Scott Wiener, a progressive activist, has jumped in. AOC’s former chief of staff has jumped in, as well.
Pelosi’s daughter, Christine Pelosi, has been floated as a pick. Pelosi may also be looking at a San Francisco County supervisor as her successor. The tech world may also be influential in the race.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Historic Border Success</h2>
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Topline: Federal border authorities saw another month of historic lows for unlawful crossings, marking a major accomplishment for the president.
The situation at the border is entirely different from what it was under the Biden administration. October saw the lowest number of illegal crossings on record, with just 30,000. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks told The Daily Wire that the Trump administration is seeing real success at the border. That success shows that despite past talk about Congress needing to act, border security really happened with just a stroke of a pen after Trump was inaugurated the second time.
Banks also said that while the government hasn’t yet achieved operational control at the border, it is much closer than ever before. He noted that several days ago, roughly 100 people crossed the border, a decrease from 10,000 to 12,000 a day under former President Joe Biden.
“Operational control is going to be when we can apprehend anything that enters this country and have zero gotaways, and we&#8217;re closer than we&#8217;ve ever been,” Banks said. “But we are not even close to being done.”
In addition to sealing the border, Border Patrol agents are also working to help ICE with mass deportation raids.
ICE under attack: The Daily Wire spoke with an ICE agent who was the victim of an attack, just one instance in the 1,000% increase in assaults on ICE under the Trump administration.
One agent who spoke with The Daily Wire was recently attacked by an illegal immigrant who had multiple convictions. The suspect had sexually assaulted a child and had numerous DUIs. He also illegally re-entered the United States.
At one point, while ICE officers were attempting to arrest the illegal alien, he tried to run from the officer. The illegal alien tried to escape by attacking the officer with a metal coffee cup that was full of hot coffee. He threw the cup at the officer, splitting the officer’s lip and giving him second-degree burns on his body.

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Morning Brief: Shutdown Day 38, Pelosi Packs Up, And Historic Border Security

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When I was Susannah Luthi&#8217;s editor years ago, she kept pitching stories about a California lawmaker named Scott Wiener. One day I asked her: I realize these policies are crazy, but why do we care so much about some random state senator?
She responded that one day, Wiener was going to run for Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s seat in Congress, and all these stories would be incredibly relevant. I trusted her and saved that email.
Susannah was right. Two weeks ago, Wiener announced he was running for Pelosi&#8217;s seat. And now Pelosi is hanging up her hat after 40 years in Washington. It&#8217;s finally happening.
Like Zohran Mamdani, Scott Wiener is the frightening face of a new Democratic Party, in which letting children get transgender surgeries is just the tip of the iceberg. From letting the state take gay kids away from their parents to legalizing pedophilia, Wiener makes even the most radical member of Congress look like a moderate.
No one knows more about Scott Wiener than Susannah, and she&#8217;s been right about him so far. We should all pay attention. — Tim Rice
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If you think men don’t belong in girls’ bathrooms, kids shouldn’t get irreversible sex changes, or cops should stop street prostitution of minors, Scott Wiener probably thinks you’re a bigot.
Indeed, it seems easy to offend Wiener, the San Francisco Democrat running for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D.) seat — and anyone who holds mainstream or conventional views on biology, women’s or parents’ rights, or conservative governance frequently does.
Last month, Wiener found it “<a href="https://x.com/WomenAreReals/status/1982259108108743044" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gross</a>” that San Francisco women turned up at his annual Halloween event to protest his transgender policies. He called the late Charlie Kirk a “vile bigot”<a href="http://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wiener-responds-governor-newsoms-comments-transgender-women-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> before</a> and<a href="https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1967604784757940280" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> after</a> the conservative activist was brutally, publicly murdered. Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk are also “bigots,&#8221; and Republican diplomat Richard Grenell is a “<a href="https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1673352593530294273" target="_blank" rel="noopener">self-hating gay man.</a>”
The people he approves of are very different — like a<a href="https://www.thesisters.org/roma" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> gay porn-purveying drag queen</a> from the anti-Catholic drag troupe Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, whom<a href="https://abc7news.com/post/sister-roma-state-capitol-protest-the-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence-honored-in-sacramento/13348438/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> he honored</a> on the California Senate floor as “one of the very best community leaders,” as well as San Francisco’s former soft-on-crime district attorney George Gascón, with whom he has<a href="https://scott-wiener.medium.com/moving-toward-decarceration-191c99638896" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> collaborated</a> on legislation. San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair, a public nudity-and-group sex festival whose attendees are<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1nmtl0l/first_time_at_folsom_street_fair_tips/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> advised</a> to watch out for men peeing on one another, is a “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=777812248385874" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beautiful community</a>” that Wiener is “proud to stand up for.”
Wiener’s personal proclivities loom large in the California State Senate, where he’s served since 2016. But they could soon have national relevance: Weiner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-trans-leftist-launches-bid-for-pelosis-seat-before-she-has-a-chance-to-announce-retirement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> his intent to run for Pelosi’s seat a full two weeks before the veteran California Democratic operator announced she would retire after four decades in Washington.
Pelosi’s retirement will kick off a brutal succession bid in California. The former speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/potential-pelosi-successor-pushed-a-bill-so-woke-even-the-new-york-times-has-doubts?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Potential+Pelosi+Successor+Pushed+A+Bill+So+Woke%2C+Even+The+New+York+Times+Has+Doubts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly favors</a> San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan as her successor.
But Wiener is a real contender — which is bad news for anyone who wants California to keep its policies to itself.
<h3>Justice For Pedophiles</h3>
In the Golden State, Wiener has pushed socially seismic policies that allow male sex offenders live in female prisons if they claim to be transgender, to exempt gay sex offenders from the state registry if the minor is at least 14 and within a 10-year age gap, and to make California a “haven” for out-of-state kids to come for sex changes without their parents’ consent.
And these laws have already wreaked notable havoc. One of the first male inmates to enter California’s female prison is standing trial for allegedly raping two women cellmates — with the judge<a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/pronoun-use-center-rape-case-involving-former-chowchilla-central-california-womens-facility-prisoner-tremaine-carroll/15696730/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> insisting</a> that the offender be referred to as a woman throughout the proceedings, even though he impregnated at least one female inmate.
Wiener also authored a bill that decriminalized streetwalking because he found anti-loitering laws “discriminatory” against transgender people and “people of color.” The law has effectively blocked cops from taking trafficked minors off the streets and led to an uncontrollable<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/magazine/sex-trafficking-girls-la-figueroa.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> spike in sex trafficking</a> of young girls, so much so that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/potential-pelosi-successor-pushed-a-bill-so-woke-even-the-new-york-times-has-doubts?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Potential+Pelosi+Successor+Pushed+A+Bill+So+Woke%2C+Even+The+New+York+Times+Has+Doubts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even the New York Times</a> finds the law problematic.
But Wiener shows no signs of backing down. His critics say it’s due to the personal nature of his policy stances, which make it impossible to get him to moderate his legislation.
“Since I’ve been going to Sacramento to his legislative hearings, I’ve seen him treat us pretty badly, in public, during sessions,” said Julie Lane, co-founder of Women Are Real, a Bay Area feminist advocacy group that fights gender ideology. “He’ll have long discussions on his committees and as soon as it’s an issue we’re involved with, he’ll leave the room, or get on his phone, or say we’re ‘anti-trans activists.’”
“He won’t listen to us.” 
<h3>“He’s Looked At As A Bully”</h3>
Wiener was born in Philadelphia and grew up in New Jersey, where, after graduating from Harvard Law School, he clerked for the state supreme court justice who wrote a <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16151905477157446342" target="_blank" rel="noopener">landmark 1975 decision</a> deeming that a trans-identifying man should be treated as female in a marriage contract and could collect spousal support after his divorce.
He moved to San Francisco in 1997, practicing in a now-dissolved corporate law firm and working in the city attorney’s office before he was elected to the county’s Board of Supervisors.
There, according to one conservative local, he was “popular and moderate and even likable” when he first started.
“What we’ve learned over time is that career politicians start slipping further left year after year. And the farther up the ladder they go, they get even more left,” said Richie Greenberg, a leader of the successful recall campaign of the city’s former left-wing district attorney Chesa Boudin.
Greenberg added that many San Franciscans see Wiener as a “carpetbagger” who went to Sacramento as a state senator to force changes in the city that he couldn’t make as a local lawmaker.
“What he supports is often not agreed on by constituents here, and that’s what gets locals upset,” he said. “He’s looked at as a bully, among other things. He has passed legislation that has stripped away the ability of cities to control things.”
Wiener touts his past post on the national board of directors of the Human Rights Campaign — a radical George Soros-funded organization behind the push to force transgenderism into the medical system and K-12 schools.
He’s done the same thing in the state legislature. Wiener has proved a powerful figure on the California state senate’s public safety committee, where he’s fought to soften criminal penalties and permit open public drug injection sites. Last year, he caused a furor when he opposed making it a felony to purchase 16 and 17-year-olds for sex, stating that “Sending an 18-year-old high school senior to state prison for offering his 17-year-old classmate $20 to fool around isn’t smart criminal justice policy.”
Those who have opposed him in hearing rooms or in the real world say he either ignores them completely or hits them with emotional arguments divorced from reality.
Consider SB 132, his 2020 law that allowed men into female prisons — and which, from its early days, led to a long string of complaints by women that some of their male cellmates were threatening, harassing, and assaulting them.
Amie Ichikawa, founder of the group Woman II Woman, which advocates for women prisoners, said Wiener’s office has answered her about other, unrelated issues but continues to ignore her reports about this law.
“I had gotten a phone call about a rape, and I said, ‘I need to speak to Sen. Wiener about SB 132 and the people taking advantage of it — I can’t take another phone call about another rape,’” Ichikawa said. “I never got any responses to that.”
Later, she went to the state capitol and personally handed Wiener letters from female inmates themselves about SB 132. “The letters were pleading with him and the governor to remember them, said that we’re all survivors of sexual abuse, how can you do this to us?” she said.
He never responded.
Last year, one of Wiener’s Republican State Senate colleagues responded to the growing reports of SB 132’s safety risks by introducing a bill that would have established separate housing for the trans-identifying males and banned convicted sex offenders from moving into women’s prisons at all.
Wiener opposed these proposed reforms during a hearing and claimed the state’s sex offender registry targeted “LGBTQ people.”
“We also know that LGBTQ people have been massively and disproportionately targeted and subjected to being slammed onto the sex offender registry,” Wiener<a href="https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/258956?t=1479&amp;f=e17600b674ef3117c38ca500eb9270ff" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> said</a> at the time. “That’s the whole history of the sex offender registry.”
<h3>&#8220;Just A Little Bit Off&#8221;</h3>
A longtime Bay Area activist who knows and likes Wiener personally agreed that he fails to look at the true effects of his legislation — although she attributes the reason to the powerful funding groups behind progressive policies he pushes.
“I think he has good intentions,” said Naomi Akers, whom Wiener nominated for the San Francisco Entertainment Commission in 2010. “I think there are a few things that are just a little bit off because I don’t think he’s getting informed from the community, but from a funder-driven activist agenda that is bypassing the community.”
Formerly incarcerated herself, Akers said most former prisoners within the prisoner rights organization she worked with opposed SB 132, but said, “I guess we have to go along with it.”
“I said something about it, and I got fired,” she said.
Akers saw similar issues with Wiener’s SB 357, which legalized “loitering with the intent to commit prostitution.” The law has been<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/predators-paradise" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> blamed</a> for a spike in sex trafficking and for turning city neighborhoods into dangerous red light districts.
“I think it harms the residents and young women in a community,” she said of the law. “I think it’s unsafe for children and other women walking around. It degrades the safety of a neighborhood and has a detrimental effect on everyone.&#8221;
Parents who have fought Wiener on bills like SB 107, which grants “sanctuary” for gender-confused youth to run away to California for sex-change drugs and procedures, see outright hostility when they voice their opinions in hearing rooms.
<h3>&#8220;Name-Calling Is All He Has.&#8221;</h3>
“Senator Wiener habitually hurls derogatory remarks at us because he cannot engage in a coherent conversation that can justify placing males in females’ spaces,” said Erin Friday, co-lead of Our Duty, a group for parents of gender-confused kids. “He cannot rationalize sex-rejecting interventions, especially the removal of sex organs of children. Devolving to name-calling is all he has.”
In 2023, he co-authored a bill that could have stripped custody from parents who didn’t “affirm” their child’s transgender identity. He blamed public outcry on “a pretty massive misinformation campaign about this bill by the right-wing media,” and claimed opponents wanted “to erase trans kids” and mount “an attack on gay and lesbian kids.”
Yet even as he regularly attacks Californians who oppose him and has consistently voted to lower penalties for violent crime, Wiener has been quick to build up his own defenses — most notably with a co-authored law that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) signed in 2023 to allow politicians to use unlimited donor money for private security.
“Since I was first elected to public office in 2010, we’ve seen a terrifying spike in threats and violence against elected officials — myself included,” he said when the legislation was unveiled. “It’s been harrowing to deal with endless threats on social media; I’ve gotten thousands over the past few years.”
The race to replace Pelosi has yet to take shape, but Wiener seems poised to take the lead. The day he announced his candidacy, he raised more than $730,000 to add to his existing<a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00909283/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> $1 million war chest</a>. His top donors include<a href="https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/24/scott-wiener-raises-730k-first-day-campaign-nancy-pelosi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> powerful</a> unions and real estate developers who have backed his laws to override local zoning laws to build dense housing blocs.
Still, Greenberg thinks Wiener’s public manner could hurt him if the race turns competitive.
“He is lashing out,” he said. “It’s like he and Newsom both took petulant pills. I don’t know what happened in the last few months to make them so angry and so off-putting.”
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When Californians voted to pass Proposition 50 this week, it did more than give Democrats additional House seats. It also launched a new phase of the redistricting wars.
The ballot measure itself marked an escalation in the fight. The California Democratic Party put forth the measure as &#8220;a direct response to a Republican power grab orchestrated by President Trump and state leaders in Texas, who redrew congressional district lines to gain five more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.&#8221;
California Governor Gavin Newsom celebrated Proposition 50&#8217;s passage in explicitly partisan terms Tuesday night, boasting that &#8220;in every critical category, Donald Trump is underwater.&#8221;
Things don&#8217;t show any signs of cooling off. On Wednesday, the California Republican Party sued in federal court to block Proposition 50.
“Dear Gavin Newsom, I hate to rain on your parade but your celebration over the passage of Prop 50 will need to wait a few days,” Mark Meuser, an attorney with Dhillon Law Group, posted to X. “You have been sued. Your unconstitutional racial gerrymandering is now heading to a federal three-judge panel and maybe to the SCOTUS to determining if your use of race in drawing congressional districts should be enjoined.”
“We are asking the court to require the old maps to be in effect while we litigation your unconstitutional actions,” he continued.
In response, Newsom&#8217;s office said it had not &#8220;reviewed the lawsuit&#8221; and <a href="https://x.com/ZavalaA/status/1986137689935257929" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered</a> best wishes to the opposition: &#8220;good luck, losers.&#8221;
But California isn&#8217;t the only front in the redistricting war. Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed off on a map in September adding one seat favoring Republicans, and North Carolina Republicans also made a move for another seat to likely favor their party last month.
However, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/02/us-redistrcting-congressional-map" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian</a> reported that across the 16 states where mid-decade redistricting could happen in at least some capacity, it could ultimately help Republicans grow their numbers in the House of Representatives.
Notably, Ohio was required to do mid-decade redistricting anyway, which also ended up giving Republicans an advantage.
Still, a potential legal earthquake could make everything even more complicated.<a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/10/15/nx-s1-5567801/supreme-court-louisiana-redistricting-voting-rights-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> NPR</a> recently reported that a Supreme Court case, Louisiana v. Callais, could scrap a section of the Voting Rights Act over how race is considered in the drawing of congressional maps, which could lead to roughly 19 seats being shifted to favor Republicans.
“Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act has been a critical tool in safeguarding the promise that people of color can participate in our democracy on equal terms,” Sophia Lin Lakin, director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, said in an Oct. 15 statement. “It has been our shield against discriminatory maps and our answer to laws designed to suppress the vote.&#8221;
Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Wire that Republicans could end up getting the last laugh.
&#8220;I think the Republicans will, and the reason for that is that, you know, with a few exceptions, Democratic-controlled states have already gerrymandered their states pretty much to the maximum you can,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;So, I actually think even if California is successful, I think with what the other states are doing, I still think Republicans may come out slightly ahead,&#8221; the legal expert continued.
&#8220;Look, what&#8217;s at stake in the Louisiana case is actually very simple: it&#8217;s the conflict between the Voting Rights Act and the 14th Amendment,&#8221; he said regarding the Supreme Court battle.
Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) told The Daily Wire that the mid-decade or &#8220;rolling redistricting&#8221; runs the risk of being &#8220;incredibly destabilizing for the folks who represent these areas and for their constituents.&#8221;
&#8220;I am continuing to advocate for my legislation to stop this whole redistricting domino effect. I think it&#8217;s a really bad thing for the country. I think it is degrading democracy in every state where it happens. I think gerrymandering is wrong, and we need to just put an end to this,&#8221; Kiley explained regarding his legislative pitch to end mid-decade redistricting.
&#8220;I&#8217;m continuing to call for a vote on that bill. I think if it did receive a vote it would pass, and I&#8217;m also working on legislation to just end gerrymandering altogether by the time of the next redistricting after the 2030 census,&#8221; the Republican said.
Kiley added that &#8220;it&#8217;s really hard to say at this point&#8221; whether or not one party will benefit more from the redistricting battle, saying that &#8220;the whole thing might come out to be a wash anyway.&#8221;
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is retiring from Congress when her term ends in 2027, she announced Thursday.
The 85-year-old San Francisco Democrat has continued to serve in the House after being the first and only woman to serve as House speaker, holding that position during two separate terms: from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023.
“For decades, I’ve cherished the privilege of representing our magnificent city in the United States Congress,” she said in a video focusing primarily on her constituents, opening with “Dear San Francisco.”
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“I truly loved serving as your voice in Congress,” she said.
“With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative,” Pelosi continued.
Pelosi’s tumultuous relationship with President Donald Trump featured public showdowns, two impeachments, and a starkly polarized political climate.
President Trump reacted to the news on Thursday morning, saying that &#8220;she was evil&#8221; and &#8220;corrupt,&#8221; according to Fox News. &#8220;The retirement of Nancy Pelosi is a great thing for America.&#8221;
Pelosi&#8217;s retirement could open up a wide Democratic primary in the Bay Area to replace her, and she’s held the seat since 1987.
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California state Sen. Scott Wiener, a far-Left progressive, already jumped into the race last month, as the seat is likely to stay deep blue.
“My family escaped fascism in Europe. I never thought the United States would slip into fascism like we’re seeing today,” Wiener said in his launch video. “San Francisco has always been on the right side of history.”
“Join me now, before everything we believe in is lost for good,” he added.
In addition, former Chief of Staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Saikat Chakrabarti, is running for the seat.
Pelosi&#8217;s retirement comes amid a likely fierce 2026 battle for the House, as Republicans currently hold a narrow majority in the Senate.
A mix of reactions to her retirement poured in on social media.
“The GOAT &#8211; thanks for your incredible service, Rep. Pelosi, and for modeling true selfless leadership by stepping back and making space for a new generation of leaders,” Amanda Litman, president of Run for Something, posted to X.
“After serving for nearly 200 years, Nancy Pelosi won’t seek reelection,” conservative commentator Jason Rantz wrote.
Pelosi was expected to announce whether she would retire following Tuesday&#8217;s Proposition 50 vote in California, which she campaigned heavily in favor of. The ballot measure to redraw congressional districts in the state to heavily favor Democrats until 2030 passed by a wide margin. Proponents of the measure said it would counteract Republican redistricting efforts in Texas and other red states, and it is currently facing a federal lawsuit from the California Republican Party.
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Pelosi Announces Retirement, Trump Torches Her ‘Evil’ And ‘Corrupt’ Legacy

Democrats

The Supreme Court considers President Donald Trump’s authority to impose tariffs, a standoff is brewing in New York City between Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and ICE, and the battle to shift the balance of power in Congress through redistricting ratchets up.
It’s Thursday, November 6, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mrn-251106-member-exclusive">video version can be seen on The Daily Wire</a>:
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">SCOTUS Hears Trump&#8217;s Tariff Case</h2>
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Topline: The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case challenging Trump’s authority to impose broad tariffs. The ruling will have a significant impact on Trump’s signature trade policy.
The case is Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump. In total, seven businesses argue that Trump doesn&#8217;t have the legal authority to impose his sweeping tariffs and that these tariffs have caused them significant financial harm.
The tariffs at issue cover a wide range of imported goods, with many set at around 10%, on nearly every U.S. trading partner. Those were enacted due to the trade deficit and the declining American industrial base, which the administration said constituted an emergency. The other set of tariffs is more targeted. They relate to border protection and the illegal flow of drugs into the United States. China, Canada, and Mexico were <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tariffs-february-1-canada-mexico-china/">hit</a> with varying rates.
The arguments: The plaintiffs argued that tariffs are taxes, and the power of the purse belongs to Congress, not the president. They claim the statute Trump cited to enact the tariffs, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), doesn’t explicitly allow the president to impose tariffs, though it does give him other powers when it comes to foreign trade during a declared emergency. It’s typically been used for sanctions.
The Trump administration argued that IEEPA does allow the president to impose tariffs, even though it’s never been used for that purpose. They say that the issue at the border constitutes an emergency, thereby allowing the tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico. Similarly, they argue the trade deficit, among other reasons, is an emergency that justifies additional tariffs.
The Court: The response from the bench was nuanced, and opinions seemed to cut both ways.
“Your interpretation of the statute would allow the president to shut down all trade with every other country in the world, or impose some significant quota on imports from every other country in the world – but would not allow a 1% tariff. And that leaves, in the government’s words, an odd donut hole in the statute,” Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1986131942094319755">said</a>. “That doesn&#8217;t seem to have a lot of common sense behind it.”
In another moment, judges focused on what exactly constitutes an emergency, and if there are limits. Justice Neil Gorsuch suggested that if the Court broadly sides with the Trump administration, it would give future administrations significant power.
“Could the president impose a 50% tariff on gas-powered cars and auto parts to deal with the ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ from abroad of climate change? … I think that has to be the logic of your view,” Gorsuch <a href="https://x.com/Acyn/status/1986101846285668665">said</a>.
View from the Oval: Trump very much believes in tariffs – he has spoken about tariffs and trade policy for decades and believes that Americans have been taken advantage of for too long. He framed this case as “literally life or death for our country.” In a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115493671705492320">Truth Social post</a> on Tuesday, he said a victory in court would mean financial and national security for America, but a loss would mean the U.S. being taken advantage of again. 
<h2 style="text-align: center;">ICE Undaunted By Mamdani</h2>
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Topline: With Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral election, how will immigration raids in the city look?
Trump border czar Tom Homan told The Daily Wire that nothing will change on the administration’s end and that “operations will continue.” He is undaunted by Mamdani, who has pledged to keep NYC a sanctuary city that refuses to work with ICE. For years, this has looked like illegal immigrant criminals benefitting from NYC’s lax-on-crime laws getting released from local jails only to walk free and end up in the revolving door of justice. ICE has to then go out into the communities, rather than have the jail contact them, to inform them that these criminals are being released.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">The Growing Redistricting War</h2>
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Topline: Proposition 50 passed by an overwhelming margin in California on Tuesday. It&#8217;s just the latest in what&#8217;s likely to become a messy nationwide redistricting battle.
Challenges moving forward: The biggest issue is that voters gave the state permission to redraw up to five congressional districts to favor Democrats. This was meant to counter the state of Texas&#8217;s effort to create a map that gives the GOP the same advantage. But this could trigger redistricting efforts all around the country. Missouri, North Carolina, and other states have already launched redistricting efforts.
There’s a possibility that, through the wave of redistricting, California’s efforts are more than canceled out in other states. But while this battle plays out, there will be many court cases and different actions at the state level across the country that could influence the final tally.
For example, the California Republican Party just announced a federal-level lawsuit against Prop 50 on Wednesday, calling it unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. And that could also create sweeping implications if it goes up through the federal court system.
Other factors influencing 2026 maps: Louisiana is arguing a major Supreme Court case attempting to get rid of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Section 2, to an extent, removes the race factor from how congressional maps are redrawn. If that happens, it could benefit Republicans in the South and lead to redistricting that favors the GOP in that region. Even with Democratic backlash in other states, by and large, that would be strong news for Republicans.

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Morning Brief: SCOTUS Takes Up Trump Tariffs, ICE Checks Mamdani, & Dems Rig Maps In California

Morning Brief: SCOTUS Takes Up Tariffs, ICE Faces Down Mamdani, And Redistricting In CA

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

New York City

Tariffs

Texas

Tom Homan

Zohran Mamdani

California Republicans filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday, arguing that the Democrat-drawn congressional map <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/californias-redistricting-ballot-measure-overwhelmingly-passes">approved by voters</a> Tuesday night unconstitutionally favors Hispanics.
The Dhillon Law Group filed the <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71875910/1/tangipa-v-newsom/">lawsuit</a> on behalf of the California Republican Party, state Rep. David Tangipa, and 18 California voters. The lawsuit argues that Proposition 50 violates the Equal Protection Clause. Harmeet Dhillon led the Dhillon Law Group before President Donald Trump tapped her to lead the Justice Department&#8217;s Civil Rights division earlier this year.
&#8220;This violates the 14th Amendment&#8217;s guarantee of equal protection under the law, and the right under the 15th Amendment to not have one&#8217;s vote abridged on account of race,&#8221; Dhillon Law Group partner Mike Columbo said at a <a href="https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwGWenWVoZxQ">press conference</a>. &#8220;When drawing the Proposition 50 map, the chief consultant who drew the map has stated that the first thing that he did was to increase the power of Latino voters.&#8221;
&#8220;Additionally, the state legislature has announced that the maps increase the power of Latino voters,&#8221; Columbo added.
Voters overwhelmingly approved Prop 50 on Tuesday with 64% support. The measure was placed on the ballot after the Democratic-led state legislature approved new congressional maps in response to Texas passing a new map that will likely give Republicans five more House seats. With Proposition 50&#8217;s passage, Democrats have likely added five more U.S. House seats for their party.
President Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-california-redistricting-vote-is-a-giant-scam-mail-ballots-under-legal-criminal-review">said</a> on Tuesday that Prop 50 was a &#8220;giant scam,&#8221; adding, &#8220;All ‘Mail-In’ Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are ‘Shut Out,’ is under very serious legal and criminal review.&#8221; It&#8217;s unclear if Trump&#8217;s threat of legal action was in reference to the lawsuit filed by Republicans on Wednesday.
According to the complaint, Proposition 50 expanded the number of districts where Hispanic voters are likely to play a decisive role, rising from 14 to 16 of California’s 52 congressional districts. In a 1986 ruling, the Supreme Court established a three-part test, known as the &#8220;Gingles Test,&#8221; to allow states to redraw district lines to give racial minorities greater influence over who is elected to represent them. The Republican lawsuit claims that California&#8217;s new map does not meet the requirements of the Gingles Test since Hispanics make up the largest ethnic group in California and are not a racial minority in the Golden State.
&#8220;We believe that the Supreme Court Gingles Test cannot be satisfied by the state, as such under the 14th and 15th Amendments, the maps drawn by Prop 50 will be considered unconstitutional,&#8221; said Dhillon Law Group attorney Mark Meuser, who was the GOP Senate candidate in California in 2022.
Rep. Tangipa said he is &#8220;appalled&#8221; by the Democratic-led legislature and Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom pushing Proposition 50.
&#8220;As the first Polynesian elected ever to the state legislature, I understand the diversity and the beauty that this state has, and what we have seen with Prop 50, these maps, they are completely diminishing the voices of [some] groups to benefit other groups,&#8221;  Tangipa said.

Prop 50

California GOP Sues Over Democrat-Drawn Congressional Map Designed To ‘Increase Power’ Of Hispanics

Courts

Election

Gavin Newsom

Lawsuit

Redistricting

Republicans

The 2025 election results are in, the Democratic Party has taken a hard-Left swerve, and as the government shutdown breaks records, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warns of massive air travel chaos.
It’s Wednesday, November 5, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mrn-251105-member-exclusive">the video version can be seen on The Daily Wire</a>:
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Democrats Sweep Tuesday Elections</h2>
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Topline: On Tuesday night, Democrats scored a number of significant victories in statewide races across New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and California. 
Republicans were facing an uphill battle. The party in control of Washington almost always struggles in off-year elections, and the biggest races were in blue states. But there’s no doubt Democrats in many ways exceeded expectations as they easily won both gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, passed a significant ballot measure in California, and scored an overwhelming mayoral victory in New York City.
New York City: NYC’s election was defined by an enormous turnout. By 5 p.m., four hours before polls closed, there had already been more votes cast than in any mayoral race in more than three decades. That enthusiasm benefitted one man, Zohran Mamdani. The self-avowed socialist trounced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa by significant margins.
Republicans intend to make the best of a bad situation, however. Many of Mamdani’s policies are wildly unpopular nationwide, so the GOP will likely work to promote him as a new standard-bearer for the Democratic Party.
New Jersey: Democrat Mikie Sherrill scored a decisive victory over Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli, with the race being called within the first hour of polls closing.
This election was decided by women. According to exit polls, Ciattarelli won with male voters by a comfortable six-point margin. Among female voters, Sherrill won by a stunning 20-point margin.
Democrats also won big on two of the most important issues, healthcare and the economy. Exit polling showed that nearly half of New Jersey voters listed those issues as their top priority. Sherrill won those folks by a more than 2-to-1 margin. Much like Donald Trump, Ciattarelli did best among working-class voters and white men.
Virginia: Democrats’ candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general all came out on top. The governor’s race ended up a blowout, with Abigail Spanberger defeating Republican Winsome Earle-Sears handily. The last few votes were counted early Wednesday morning, and it appeared to be among the largest margins of victory for a Democrat gubernatorial candidate in the state in decades.
Republicans ultimately struggled to drive turnout in the state’s deep red rural counties, while Spanberger ran up the score in heavily populated blue counties near Washington, D.C., outpacing former Vice President Kamala Harris’s performance from a year ago.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Rise Of Democrat Radicals</h2>
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Topline: This election cycle has highlighted a growing appetite for socialism among young Democrats and the growing influence of progressives over the Democratic Party.
Socialism takes NYC: Mamdani won the NYC mayoral race, which is not altogether surprising in a deep-blue city like New York. And there’s an argument to be made that Cuomo could have pulled out a win if he hadn’t split the anti-Mamdani vote with Sliwa. But regardless, the Democratic Party has given its tacit or explicit approval of Mamdani. For as radical as Mamdani is to the mainstream of American politics, he faced essentially no public resistance from Democrats. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries even endorsed him.
Still, many Democrats didn’t appear pleased with Mamdani. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer never <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/us/politics/chuck-schumer-zohran-mamdani-endorsement.html">endorsed</a> him. Neither did former President Barack Obama, though Obama did <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-barack-obama-election.html">call</a> Mamdani to compliment his campaign. All of this speaks to a tension these politicians see between Mamdani as a broadly unpopular figure, but very popular among the Democrats’ left-wing base, which, with Mamdani’s win, is in its ascendency.
Loyalty over decency: In Virginia, Spanberger never distanced herself from the Democratic nominee for state attorney general, Jay Jones, despite his scandals. The Washington Post wrote in a Monday evening <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/03/virginia-election-governor-spanberger-sears-jay-jones/">editorial</a>: “If Jones rides Spanberger’s coattails to victory, it would be a sad reflection of a discomfiting willingness among voters to prioritize partisanship over human decency.”
This is currently a trend in Democratic politics. In Maine, Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner hasn’t felt Democratic backlash, except within his own campaign staff, from having a Nazi tattoo.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent, dismissed Platner’s tattoo last month. “Between you and me, there might be one or two more important issues,” Sanders told Axios.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Shutdown Hits Air Travel, SNAP Benefits</h2>
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Topline: The government is still shut down, potentially causing major problems for upcoming holiday travel and delaying SNAP benefits for tens of millions of Americans.
The Senate voted on a continuing resolution that passed the House, and for the 14th time, it failed. Only two Democrats, Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman and Nevada’s Catherine Cortez-Masto, voted alongside Republicans to open the government.
Dem’s message: Democrats say it’s Republicans who are keeping the government shut down, and they are essentially arguing that the shutdown is happening because Republicans aren’t on board with certain healthcare subsidies.
“There’s nothing to be optimistic about, relative to the cruelty and the pain that Donald Trump and Republicans continue to inflict on the American people,” Jeffries <a href="https://x.com/RepJeffries/status/1985755754540708251">said</a> on Tuesday. “They refuse to address the health care crisis that Republicans have created.”
GOP’s message: Republicans have stuck to their original message —that the CR bill is “clean,” maintaining current funding levels without any policy changes. Democrats refusing to vote for it are clearly the ones keeping the government shut down.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) also said that Democrats want to force American taxpayers to fund healthcare for illegal immigrants, and that’s why there is a stalemate.
“In addition to their refusal to vote for the CR and reopen the government, the Democrats have had the audacity to demand something new. They demanded $1.5 trillion with a ‘T’ in new spending obligations,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C321Cds5qIY">said</a> Johnson. “Included in that is nearly $200 million of taxpayer funds that they want to use to restore free health benefits to illegal aliens.”
Shutdown on air travel: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Tuesday that if the government shutdown continues, air travel will be severely restricted during the holiday season.
“You will see mass flight delays. You&#8217;ll see mass cancellations, and you may see us close certain parts of the airspace, because we just cannot manage it because we don&#8217;t have the air traffic controllers,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jxpszDOrQA&amp;list=RDNS6jxpszDOrQA&amp;start_radio=1">said</a> Duffy.
Shutdown on SNAP: Trump said on Tuesday that a potential delay for this month’s SNAP benefits will continue for 42 million Americans until the “Radical Left Democrats” reopen the government, which he said they can “easily do” at any time. USDA’s main website similarly says they don’t have funds to distribute benefits because of Democrats.
Trump’s message comes one day after the administration said it would dip into emergency funds to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-partially-fund-snap-months/story?id=127138175" target="_blank" rel="noopener">partially fund</a> SNAP with a $4.65 billion payment, following a federal judge’s order. A court filing said that the process could take “a few weeks to up to several months.”

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Morning Brief: Democrats Sweep, The Rise Of The Radicals, & The Longest Shutdown In History

New Jersey

Virginia

Winsome Sears

A California ballot measure that would change the state&#8217;s electoral map passed on Tuesday, paving the way for Democrats to add five congressional seats in the coming midterm elections.
With three-quarters of votes counted, Decision Desk HQ <a href="https://election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11-04/states/California">reports</a> that around 65% of Californians voted for Proposition 50, which “authorizes temporary changes to congressional district maps in response to Texas’s partisan redistricting.” The measure, which California Governor Gavin Newsom, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and other prominent Democrats supported, was slammed as overly partisan by opponents, and heavily funded by supporters. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-health-insurance-giant-quietly-bankrolls-gavin-newsoms-partisan-power-grab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> reported that one of the major donors to Newsom&#8217;s ballot measure committee included Blue Shield of California, which donated $500,000.
The California Democratic Party website said that the proposal is “a direct response to a Republican power grab orchestrated by President Trump and state leaders in Texas, who redrew congressional district lines to gain five more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.”
“If Texas had backed off, California would have backed off,” Pelosi posted on X last week. “But Trump insisted on Texas starting this fight — so California will meet this moment and win BIG on Tuesday to defend our health care and our democracy.”
The passage of Proposition 50 is a major win for Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential candidate. It comes just hours after voters across the country elected socialist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-time-new-york-city-turns-to-muslim-socialist-zohran-mamdani-as-next-mayor?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Brecca+Stoll&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=MAMDANI+TIME%3A+New+York+City+Turns+To+Muslim+Socialist+Zohran+Mamdani+As+Next+Mayor">Zohran Mamdani</a> mayor of New York City and sent Democrats to the governors mansions in New Jersey and Virginia.
In October, Los Angeles County Republican Chair <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-californias-effort-to-fight-back-against-trump-with-redistricting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roxanne Hoge</a> explained that the phrasing of the measure made the race competitive.
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“If we didn’t have the crazy title in summary that they had, it would be like Prop 36, right. Overwhelming. But given the title and summary we have, it’s neck and neck,” she said at the time. Prop. 36 was a 2024 ballot measure that passed overwhelmingly to fight back against crime in the Golden State.
Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, also opposed the proposition.
“There is such extreme gerrymandering going on that in a state like Massachusetts, it has like 40% of the people voting for Trump, they only — they have zero representatives,&#8221; Schwarzenegger said in a recent<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-terminates-jake-tappers-effort-to-blame-gop-for-gerrymandering" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> CNN interview</a>. &#8220;The Republican Party has zero representatives sent to the House. Think about that.&#8221;
“In New Mexico, 45% of the people voted for Trump and vote Republican, and zero is sent to the House, zero representatives from the Republican Party,”  he added. “So there’s gerrymandering — crazy gerrymandering — going on all over the country, and we wanted to try to stop it in California, and we did stop it in California.”
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), whose seat is expected to be redrawn under Proposition 50 tells The Daily Wire that he&#8217;s &#8220;not going anywhere.&#8221;
&#8220;It was difficult to watch as Gavin Newsom and Sacramento’s special interests set about shredding the state constitution, disenfranchising millions of Californians solely because of how they vote, and delivering what they know is an undeserved advantage to Democrats,&#8221; Issa said. &#8220;But here’s something Newsom and his cronies don’t know: It won’t work.&#8221;
&#8220;Voters get to pick their representatives. Not the other way around,&#8221; the congressman continued, later adding that he&#8217;s &#8220;not quitting on California. And neither should anyone else.”

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As California prepares to count ballots on Tuesday, President Donald Trump questioned the state&#8217;s election integrity and called the Proposition 50 vote &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221; and a &#8220;giant scam.&#8221;
Trump said that California&#8217;s mail-in ballot process is &#8220;RIGGED&#8221; and &#8220;under very serious legal and criminal review.&#8221; Tuesday&#8217;s Proposition 50 election in California puts the state legislature&#8217;s redrawn congressional maps before voters for approval. If passed, the new maps would add to Democrats&#8217; numbers in the U.S. House.
&#8220;The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED. All &#8216;Mail-In&#8217; Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are &#8216;Shut Out,&#8217; is under very serious legal and criminal review. STAY TUNED!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115492361756063244">wrote</a> on Truth Social.
It&#8217;s unclear if Trump&#8217;s mention of a &#8220;legal and criminal review&#8221; is referring to a federal investigation into California&#8217;s mail-in ballots or something else. The Department of Justice sent election monitors to California and New Jersey to watch polling sites and &#8220;ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law,&#8221; CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-department-election-monitors-california-new-jersey/">reported</a>.
California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom called for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-californias-effort-to-fight-back-against-trump-with-redistricting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a special Proposition 50 election</a> in response to Texas passing a new congressional map that will likely give Republicans five more House seats. California Democrats called Texas&#8217;s move a &#8220;power grab orchestrated by President Trump.&#8221; The California Democratic Party said that Proposition 50 &#8220;would negate the five Republican seats drawn by Texas.&#8221;
Last month, California sent mail-in ballots to all 23 million registered voters for the Proposition 50 special election. As of Monday, 28% of California voters had cast a ballot, according to <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-04/polls-open-for-californias-special-election-but-how-many-people-will-show">The Los Angeles Times</a>. The mail-in votes <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/sacramento-county-ballot-envelope-holes-concerns-prop-50-election/">in Sacramento County</a> have faced <a href="https://x.com/tedcruz/status/1976745073300652466">scrutiny,</a> with some people <a href="https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1977423844936986993">claiming</a> that a &#8220;no&#8221; vote on Proposition 50 could be visible through a hole in the envelopes, allowing officials to see how people voted. Conservatives, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and the popular X account Libs of TikTok, criticized the mail-in ballots on social media.
California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a Democrat, appeared to <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-14/california-ballot-design-unfounded-viral-conspiracy-theories-november-election-rigged">push back</a> against this claim, saying, &#8220;The small holes on ballot envelopes are an accessibility feature to allow sight-impaired voters to orient themselves to where they are required to sign the envelope.&#8221;
However, the Sacramento County Department of Voter Registration and Elections <a href="https://www.saccounty.gov/us/en/articles/2025-articles/response-to-special-election-ballot-envelope-posts.html#gsc.tab=0">acknowledged</a> that &#8220;there are at least eight ways to insert a ballot card into the return envelope, and only two of these might result in a bubble being visible in the hole.&#8221; But according to the department, &#8220;There is no way to determine how a voter voted through this small hole.&#8221;
Some California Republican officials also blasted the mail-in ballot theories pushed by some conservatives on social media. Los Angeles County Republican Party Chair Roxanne Hoge warned voters last month, <a href="https://x.com/RoxanneHoge/status/1976817550613999712">writing</a>, &#8220;C&#8217;mon people! If you&#8217;re worried about your vote showing through the hole, fold it the other way. Vote NO on 50!&#8221;
In another post, Hoge <a href="https://x.com/RoxanneHoge/status/1976892993790787845">wrote</a>, &#8220;Please don&#8217;t panic people about something that is easily addressed by turning their ballot around. We need every no vote and we need them now.&#8221;
The Republican Party of San Diego <a href="https://x.com/RPSDC/status/1982158321760297233">added</a>, &#8220;It&#8217;s simple. Republicans need to stop complaining and vote. We ask and ask and ask and yet turnout still lags. To win this one GOP turnout needs to be materially better than average. It&#8217;s very doable but won&#8217;t just happen. Work it.&#8221;
Trump and Republicans have also expressed concerns about mail-in ballots being sent to California&#8217;s large illegal immigrant population, who are ineligible to vote. California officials claim that the state has safeguards that prevent illegal immigrants from voting.
Recent polls <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article312761827.html">suggest</a> that Proposition 50 will likely pass, giving Democrats even more power in the deep-blue state.

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress, called President Donald Trump &#8220;a vile creature,&#8221; adding that he is &#8220;the worst thing on the face of the earth.&#8221;
Pelosi made the comments during a sit-down interview with <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/politics/video/nancy-pelosi-california-trump-elex-michaelson-lead-jake-tapper">CNN</a> that aired on Monday. The hostile remarks come as political violence in the United States continues to rise, following two assassination attempts on President Trump in 2024 and the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk in September.
&#8220;He&#8217;s just a vile creature, and the worst thing on the face of the earth, but anyway,&#8221; Pelosi said of Trump.
&#8220;You think he&#8217;s the worst thing on the face of the earth?&#8221; asked CNN journalist Elex Michaelson.
&#8220;I do, yeah,&#8221; Pelosi replied.
She defended her harsh words about Trump, arguing that he &#8220;does not honor the Constitution of the United States.&#8221;
&#8220;In fact, he&#8217;s turned the Supreme Court into a rogue court. He&#8217;s abolished the House of Representatives. He&#8217;s chilled the press,&#8221; Pelosi added. &#8220;He&#8217;s scared people who are in our country legally.&#8221;
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The 85-year-old congresswoman was not asked to explain how Trump has made the Supreme Court a &#8220;rogue court&#8221; or what she meant by arguing that the House of Representatives has been &#8220;abolished.&#8221; The CNN interview focused on California&#8217;s special election on Tuesday, when voters will cast their ballots on Proposition 50, which aims to redraw the state&#8217;s congressional maps to further favor Democrats.
Democrats are reportedly preparing for Pelosi to announce her retirement from Congress in the coming days. The 20-term congresswoman is expected to address her future plans after Tuesday&#8217;s election, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-brace-nancy-pelosi-possible-retirement-rcna241336">reported</a>. Asked about her future political plans, Pelosi said she&#8217;s more concerned about getting the Democratic Party back in power and fighting the &#8220;poison of the Trump administration.&#8221;
&#8220;For me, it&#8217;s just a question about one thing: winning the House for the Democrats, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re doing with Proposition 50. It&#8217;s the first step,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And then we go from there to winning. And the only reason I&#8217;m in Congress this term is to win the House for the Democrats, to protect us from the poison of the Trump administration.&#8221;
Republicans have recently addressed the rise in political violence coming from the Left and have urged their Democratic colleagues to tone down their rhetoric on Trump and conservatives. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week, committee chair Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) called out &#8220;left-wing extremism,&#8221; arguing that for the past 15 months, political violence “has been a constant fact of American life.”
Daily Wire host Michael Knowles <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-problem-lies-on-the-left-michael-knowles-brings-the-heat-to-senate-political-violence-hearing">testified</a> during the hearing and blasted Democrats for attempting to include those on the Right as main drivers of political violence.
&#8220;This seems to me confusing and misbegotten as one cannot solve a problem if one does not know where the problem lies,&#8221; Knowles said, adding, &#8220;In light of the murder of my friend Charlie Kirk by a leftist assassin, I am gratified to see that at least some members of our federal legislature are now confronting the consistent and escalating pattern of left-wing terrorism in the country.&#8221;
Pelosi has also been affected by political violence, when her husband, Paul, was attacked by a hammer-wielding man in 2022. The attacker, David DePape, <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-man-accused-of-attacking-paul-pelosi-with-a-hammer-says-he-wanted-to-end-corruption#:~:text=to%2Dend%2Dcorruption-,Man%20accused%20of%20attacking%20Paul%20Pelosi%20with%20a%20hammer%20testifies,the%20early%20hours%20of%20Oct.">espoused</a> right-wing conspiracy theories and testified that he wanted to interrogate Pelosi and get her to admit to corruption. President Trump called the attack on Paul Pelosi a &#8220;sad situation,&#8221; but also made light of the incident.
&#8220;Pelosi has a big wall wrapped around her house, but of course, it didn&#8217;t help too much with the problem she had, did it?&#8221; Trump said during a 2024 rally.

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Election Day is today, and the handful of races we&#8217;re watching will impact everything from the 2026 midterms to the 2028 presidential cycle.
But we&#8217;re getting ahead of ourselves. The Daily Wire will have coast-to-coast coverage from now until the last race is called. From East Coast gubernatorial battles to West Coast redistricting fights, you can count on us to bring up-to-the-minute insight on the polls, the candidates, and voter turnout on our site and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-election-day-2025?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daily+Wire&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=LIVE+UPDATES%3A+Election+Day+2025">Election Day Liveblog.</a>
To kick things off, here&#8217;s everything you need to know about the races we&#8217;ll be watching.
<h2>Virginia</h2>
Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is running against former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger. Republican John Reid is running against Democrat Ghazala Hashmi for Lt. Gov., and Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares is running against Democrat Jay Jones. Virginians will also elect members to the Virginia House of Delegates, which currently has a 51-48 Democratic majority.
The races have focused largely on issues such as immigration, education, taxes and public safety. Many polls show Spanberger leading Earle-Sears, and the Attorney General’s race as a complete toss-up.
However, the attorney general’s race became the focal point of the statewide races after Jones was revealed to have sent text messages suggesting violence against former Republican House of Delegates Speaker Todd Gilbert in 2022.
“Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, Hitler, and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head,” Jones wrote in one of the texts. Jones has since apologized for the comments, but the controversy led to questions about whether Spanberger would still back Jones.
“We are all running our individual races,” Spanberger said during a debate when asked if she was still backing Jones.
Speaking to The Daily Wire on the eve of the election, Earle-Sears <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/winsome-earle-searss-final-pitch-in-virginia-common-sense-will-win?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Winsome+Earle-Sears%E2%80%99+Final+Pitch+In+Virginia%3A+%E2%80%98Common+Sense+Will+Win.%E2%80%99">pitched herself</a> as the common sense candidate, and predicted she would carry the state because voters crave safety and security. She also slammed Spanberger for attempting to run as a moderate while voting with the extreme wing of the Democrat Party while in Congress, and for refusing to denounce Jones and pull her endorsement.
&#8220;Abigail Spanberger cannot be governor,&#8221; she said. &#8220;She&#8217;s politically calculating and cunning. I used to think it was cowardice but I see now, no — she wants power, she wants control, and so she refuses to say the right thing which is to tell Jay Jones to get out of the race.&#8221;
Former Vice President Kamala Harris won the state in 2024, and former President Joe Biden won it in 2020, but Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Earle-Sears and Miyares won in 2021.
<h2>New Jersey</h2>
Democratic Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli are in a tightening race to replace Democrat Governor Phil Murphy.
Ciattarelli ran against Murphy in 2021 and came close at 48% to Murphy’s just over 51%. President Donald Trump has vocally endorsed the Republican, including calling on the Orthodox Jewish community to back him over the weekend.
“I need ALL of my supporters in the Orthodox community in Lakewood and its surrounding towns to vote in HUGE numbers for Jack Ciattarelli. Jack will be a GREAT Governor, and has my Complete and Total Endorsement — He will never let you down!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“Jack needs every single Vote in the community, including all the Yeshiva students who turned out to vote for me last year. Your Votes in this Election will save New Jersey, a State that is near and dear to my heart,” he added.
In a wide-ranging <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jack-ciattarellis-final-pitch-in-new-jersey-this-is-a-change-election-im-a-change-agent?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Jack+Ciattarelli%E2%80%99s+Final+Pitch+In+New+Jersey%3A+%E2%80%98This+Is+A+Change+Election.+I%E2%80%99m+A+Change+Agent.%E2%80%9D%C2%A0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The Daily Wire, Ciattarelli said that “people want change across the state,” and he’s the answer, pledging to reduce energy prices, restore public order by cracking down on crime, and roll back New Jersey&#8217;s sanctuary state policies.
As for Sherrill, one of her key campaign points is to declare a state of emergency in hopes of “freezing” utility rate increases. Ciattarelli has scrutinized the idea, instead proposing ending the state’s participation in a carbon tax as a way to lower bills for New Jerseyans, according to the<a href="https://newjerseymonitor.com/2025/10/24/nj-republican-governor-carbon-tax/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> New Jersey Monitor</a>.
<h2>New York City</h2>
The New York City mayoral race has become a national phenomenon with the three-way contest between Democrat Zohran Mamdani, Republican Curtis Sliwa, and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who lost the Democratic primary but is now in the race as an independent.
More than 735,000 New Yorkers have turned out for early voting, marking a record turnout. The Daily Wire&#8217;s Jennie Taer has a helpful breakdown of the latest polling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/on-the-eve-of-nycs-critical-mayoral-election-heres-what-the-latest-polls-say?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=On+The+Eve+Of+NYC%E2%80%99s+Critical+Mayoral+Election%2C+Here%E2%80%99s+What+The+Latest+Polls+Say">here</a>.
Polling has consistently shown Mamdani ahead, and he’s become known for socialist policy proposals including freezing rent, grocery stores owned by the local government, and scrapping bus fares.
According to his platform, he also wants the minimum wage in the city to increase to $30 by the year 2030.
As for Cuomo, the campaign has served as an attempt at a political comeback following his resignation over sexual harassment allegations in 2021.
His successor, Gov. Kathy Hochul, has backed Mamdani instead, as Trump said in a “60 Minutes” interview that he&#8217;s “not a fan of Cuomo one way or the other, but if it’s going to be between a bad Democrat and a communist, I’m going to pick the bad Democrat all the time to be honest with you.&#8221;
As for Sliwa, the Guardian Angels founder has campaigned on cracking down on crime and housing policy reforms.
“My plan to save NYC starts day one. I’ll make city agencies work efficiently to keep communities safe, clean, and affordable. I’ll fund every precinct to lower crime, improve schools, protect the SHSAT, and lower the cost of living. I’ll be the mayor who helps you stay here and builds a future better than ever for all of us,” Sliwa posted to X on Sunday.
<h2>California</h2>
Proposition 50 would give the state permission to redraw congressional district maps until 2030 in order to favor Democrats. The move was put forward by leading Democrats in the state to counteract a move by Texas to redraw their maps to favor Republicans.
According to the California Secretary of State’s<a href="https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/quick-reference-guide/50.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> website</a>, the “pro” argument is that it “approves temporary, emergency congressional district maps to counter Donald Trump’s scheme to rig next year’s congressional election and reaffirms California’s commitment to independent, nonpartisan redistricting after the next census.”
On the side against the ballot measure, the argument is that the proposition is “dismantling safeguards that keep elections fair, removes requirements to keep local communities together, and eliminates voter protections that ban maps designed to favor political parties” and says it was “written by politicians, for politicians.”
The “no” side has been significantly outspent by proponents of the measure, which includes Gov. Gavin Newsom and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the House. Donors include insurance giant Blue Shield of California, which gave $500,000 to Newsom&#8217;s ballot measure committee, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-health-insurance-giant-quietly-bankrolls-gavin-newsoms-partisan-power-grab?author=Amber+Jo+Cooper&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=A+Health+Insurance+Giant+Quietly+Bankrolls+Gavin+Newsom%E2%80%99s+Partisan+Power+Grab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last week.
“If Texas had backed off, California would have backed off,” Pelosi wrote last week on X. “But Trump insisted on Texas starting this fight — so California will meet this moment and win BIG on Tuesday to defend our health care and our democracy.”
Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) wrote on X on Monday that Californians should “Vote NO because voters, not politicians, should choose the destiny of our state.”
“Vote NO because each and every citizen deserves fair representation. Vote NO because California is worth fighting for,” he added.
Polling has indicated that the proposition will pass, as opponents have attributed the partisan language of the ballot measure to its potential success.

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