November 4, 2025 • 36 mins
November 4th is Election Day in America. We covered some of the local races in Boston such as the Boston City Council race but some of the big races people were watching out for were the New York City mayor’s race, the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia as well as Prop 50 in California. We covered all the big races.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Coostin's new radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, election results are starting to come in, and at
this point it looks as if the Democrats have had
a very good night. They have picked up a governorship
in Virginia, and they have defended a governorship in New Jersey,
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and Jack Chiterell Cidarelli has now conceded to Mickey Cheryl
in New Jersey. H And this this is an interesting
set of results, and they are not results that the
Trump administration is going to be happy about. We also
will be looking at well, for example, we will look
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right now at the Virginia race. Now again, I don't
want to get lost in numbers here, but to put
this in perspective and to be candid, this has been
a very good night for the Democrats, who have not
had very many good nights since last November. And let
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me try to put in a context for you. In Virginia,
a Democratic congresswoman, Abigail Spanberger, she's a former CIA agent,
has won the governorship of Virginia with a big number.
Ninety percent of the votes have been counted and she
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has fifty six point six percent of the vote. Winsome
Earl Sears the current lieutenant governor. She was Lieutenant Governor
Glenn Youngkin, who interestingly enough, has a fifty seven percent
approval rating in Virginia. That is a big number for
any governor to have a fifty seven percent approval rating.
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And yet his coattails did to help his lieutenant governor
when he won this race. When he won this seat
in twenty twenty one, four years ago this month, he
edged out longtime Democratic activist Terry mccauliffe by only about
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sixty three thousand votes. It was not a razor thin margin,
but it was. Youngin had fifty point six percent of
the vote. Now, after a successful four year term in
which his fifty six percent of the vote grew to
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where fifty seven percent of the voters in Virginia gave
him an approval rating, his running mate, his lieutenant governor
win some Earl Sears only came up with forty three
percent of the vote. That is a big win for
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the Democrats. That is a six percent increase for the Democrats.
And to give you an example, when Vice President Harris
ran against Donald Trump in twenty twenty four year ago,
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Harris Kamala Harris had fifty two percent of the vote.
She carried Virginia. Virginia is a Democratic state, but now
tonight Spanberger is close to five percentage points ahead of Harris,
So that's a big win for the Democrats tonight. Make
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no mistake about it. Her coattails apparently have now also
won the race for the Democratic candidate for Attorney General,
Jay Jones. He has defeated the incumbent Republican Attorney General,
Jason my Yars. My Yars, this race did tighten up somewhat,
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but it didn't tighten up enough. Jones is the guy
who had, I guess sent an email to a friend
a few years ago that he wished he could put
a couple of bullets in the head of the Republican
Speaker of the House. Despite that language, Democrats gave Jones
a four percent five percent win tonight with ninety percent
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of the votes counted. So Virginia, which which was a
state that the Republicans were hoping they could pick up
a governorship, didn't happen. Meanwhile, meanwhile, in New Jersey, and
by the way, these two states are very interesting in
that they're both on the East coast. One is a
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northern state, New Jersey and one is sort of considered
a southern state for Rginia, but they're very close. Virginia's
population is about eight point seven million, New Jersey about
nine million, so they're very close in size, and their
numbers tonight are pretty close as well. Mickey Cheryl, a congresswoman,
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faced off against Jack Cidarelli. Now. Sidarelli two years ago
had forty eight percent of the vote. He came very
close to on seating Phil Murphy, the incumbent Democrat. Murphy's
numbers are way down. He has an approval rating of
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about forty seven percent, and many people thought that this
was Cidarelli's race to win because he had forty eight
percent four years ago. Tonight he's down about five percent
and forty three percent. So the Republicans not only lost
both Virginia and New Jersey, but they lost those races
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by substantial margins. And even though they won Virginia two
years ago, it is now a pickup for the Democrats
and New Jersey becomes almost an embarrassment for Cidarelli, who
seemed to have some momentum behind him now in New Jersey.
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In New Jersey, assuming that with eighty four percent of
the votes. In Ryl's numbers pretty much hold as they will.
Harris won Vice President Kamala Harris won New Jersey again
very similar to Virginia. She got fifty two percent of
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the vote and Donald Trump had forty six. Both of
those states, similar in size, went fifty two forty six
for the Democrat over President Trump in twenty twenty four,
So these are not easy states for Republicans. However, tonight
both Spanberger, the Democrat in Virginia, is doing better on
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a percentage basis than Harris did a year ago, doing
better by about four points, and the same in New Jersey.
The Democrat Ryl in New Jersey is doing better by
four points that Harris did a year ago in New Jersey.
So this is a bad night for Donald Trump and
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a bad night for the Republicans, even up against what
most would say has been a pretty successful nine months
for President Trump in that he has followed through and
successful accomplished several of the things that he had promised.
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So I want to open the phone lines up and
I want to have your reaction to this. We'll take
a look at the New York City mayor's race as well,
and we'll also take a look at and that seems
to be going eighty nine percent of the votes in there.
It looks as if Mom Donnie is going to get
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just above fifty percent of the vote. Cuomo the Independent
is at forty one point six percent of the vote,
and Sleewa the Republican is seven point two percent of
the vote. It looks as if Cuomo picked up some
of Sleewah's support in Staten Island. On Staten Island, but
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not enough. So it's a swite for the Democrats. Mandani
becomes the next mayor of New York. We have a
Democratic Socialist mayor of New York and the Democrats win
both governors races tonight. Interesting interesting issues and we'll get
to the to the issues. Here in Massachusetts and well
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certainly in Boston, it's more city council races because at
this point Michelle wou is running unopposed the number six two, six, seven,
nine thirty. You can join us. We have an interesting
guest already on the guest line, and feel free to
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join the conversation. I'll introduce that guest in a moment
back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We're following the results in Virginia, New Jersey, New York City.
The Democrats have swept the board and despite a lot
of efforts to help the Cuomo campaign in New York City,
that apparently has fallen flat as well. And we're also
going to be canty Boston City Hall results as the
evening goes on. They are going to come in a
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little bit more slowly. Unfortunately, joining us is a very
familiar face, and I'm delighted to talk with former US
Senator from Massachusetts now a Republican senatorial candidate in New Hampshire,
Scott Brown. Scott, this is not good news for the
Republicans tonight.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Well, then, I was actually listening to your analysis. I
was going to have a nice relaxing ride home, and
I had to just remind you that New Jersey has
eight hundred thousand more registered Democrats than Republicans. Number one.
New York's Democrat to Republican is seven to one, and
in the last couple of years, a lot of those
people that would have helped in both of those states,
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quite frankly, a lot of them have actually moved. So
what do you have now do you have basically a
socialist in a semi who basically is going to be
the face of the rudderless Democratic Party and who's going
to be campaigning in places like New Hampshire for Chris
Pappits and all around the country. So to think somehow
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this is anything more to do with the fact that
these are definitely blue states. There are always blue states.
And in Virginia, listen with the government shut down, a
lot of government workers there and feel on the pain.
And she wasn't, respectfully a wonderful woman, but wasn't a
good candidate. She definitely was not Glenn Younkin. So the
sky is not falling. You know. I didn't think that
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they were going to win, and you know my predictions
were accurate.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Well, yeah, they swept the board. And the thing that
to me is interesting is that even the difference of
a year both in Virginia and New Jersey, I can
put New York aside as an anomaly. And frankly that
might be a gift for the Republican Party because I
think that that's only going to incent more you know,
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very progressive social members of Social Democrats for America to
infiltrate the Democratic Party and they there will be more Zorahan.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
They are the Democratic Party. They are the Democratic Party
right now. There's no, there's no The old blue dog
Democrats JFK would never be allowed, Gosh, Ted Kennedy would
not be allowed in this party. And Obama and those
guys they're like old timers. So no, this is a
new Democratic Party where you have you know, my Mamdani
and AOC and and a lot of the other folks
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there that are basically, you know, just trying to you know,
they're against everything the president's doing, certainly, but the men
and boys and women in girls' sports, open border, sanctuary cities,
you know, tearing away at the very fabric of our country.
And quite frankly, that's one of the reasons I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Running well again. I I just look at these numbers
and I realized that Kamala Harris in both New Jersey
and Virginia, two similar states, but also a little residential.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Though then it's a presidential it's a whole different ballgame.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You know. It's no that at that, But I'm saying
that the even with a successful year for the president,
I was looking at some of the internal polls that
were coming out of Virginia and New Jersey today and
I didn't see much in the you know, Donald Trump
was not being given much. But the point I wanted
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to make was that that Harris in both of those
states gets fifty two percent. She carries Virginia in New Jersey, fine,
but both a Spamburger and Cheryl have increased the Democratic
percentage in this election. One year later by five percentage points.
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They were up in fifty six fifty seven territory. And Cidarelli,
who came very close against an incumbent Democrat in twenty
twenty one, got blown up tonight and I thought he
actually had a chance of winning in that state.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, I never did. It's twenty twenty five, man, you know,
lots lots of change. Then, I mean, look at what
the country and the world have gone through. They went
through and intends election they went through. COVID obviously still
picking up the pieces from the Biden disaster, the open borders,
sanctuary cities, you know, all the things that you're finding.
And yeah, it's uncomfortable to deal with a lot of
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these things. But there is the answer that that you know,
the president does nothing that we continue to have the
open borders and we continue to do a lot of
the things that.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I don't I agree with you, I would agree with
you that. Let me ask you this. You're a candidate
for next year in New Hampshire, and I know that
you feel that you will prevail and you will be
the nominee for the Republican Party in New Hampshire next year.
When you look at these numbers after the successes that
Donald Trump has had, you're basically suggesting to me that
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there are a number of factors off your factors. I
get it. But Glenn Young one in Virginia, Glenn youngin
had a fifty seven percent approval rate from voters that
that did not carry for his lieutenant governor at all.
What does this augur for the for the midterm elections
where you're going to be front and center and your
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your race might be one of the races where the
Republicans have a really good chance of picking up a
US senden see.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Well, first of all, she is definitely not Glenn Young
And I mean he was a very special man a
special time and did a great job and it will
end with a very high approval rating. And if you're
looking in New Hampshire, it really comes down to not
only in the state's you're referring to a but in
New Hampshire comes down to the candidates. You know, individual candidates,
what they bring to the office, and a lot of
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the things you're seeing the president do, respectfully, a lot
of the economic matters and others whether you're speaking to
you know, a lot of the economic advisors they'll be
clicking in in the next six to eight months. And
you know, it takes time to fix specfully once again
the mess that we were left with. So yeah, listen,
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it's a long, long year, almost a year away from
the primary here. You know, it just comes down to
hard work. And I think New Hampshire is a lot
different than those states because we have a Republican governor
in Kelly Aid, a supermajority in the Senate, a large
majority in the House of supermajority, and the Executive Council.
And we don't have no income tax, no sales tax,
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no interest in dividends tax. You know, carry a gun
or not, motorcycle, helmet or not, no bottle bill. So
that New Hampshire advantage is real, and it's different than
New Jersey with the highest tax rate. You know, it
was eleven point ninety five in New York City. You know,
which you have, the high cost of living in a
whole host of other things. I thought, is you had,
you know, a good message to young people who basically
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haven't been in the workforce, they can't afford to live there.
But the answer is not, you know, giving away other
people's money and opening up government run grocery stores. What
do they have forty one thousand grocery stores in New
York City?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Five? Yeah, which is what you do? And again, I
can understand the vote in New York City. I don't
understand the vote in New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah I do. I mean it's eight hundred thousand more
registered Democrats, and a lot of those Democrats because of
the high taxes, the lack of safety and security, the
high energy costs, they've they've already left. They've either gone
to Florida or Texas.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
And they say, you say the Republicans have left? Yeah, yeah, Okay,
Well I'll tell you. I. I looked at the Ciderelli
campaign and I thought to myself, Okay, this guy came
very close this year. The New Jersey voters will give
him a chance. I thought the Republicans and Democrats would
split today. You thought that the Dems would carry both
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New Jersey in Virginia.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
And yeah, no I'm not. I don't know if I'm
if I'm glad, I'm right, or I'm not glad, But
I do know that Mom Donny is a new face
of the Democratic Parties and Anni smighties not in favor
of law enforcement and the police for sure. You know,
he wants to basically tear apart in our society as
we know, a rip up capitalism. This is guy who
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is at a silver spoon in his mouth and went
to boat and you know his parents are millionaires. Yet
you know he wants to, you know, obviously destroy the
very fabric of our I'm sure his.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Money's are safely in sconstant trust somewhere, so.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
He doesn't trusts, you know, Dan, you know what the
beauty of it is. And the thing I love about
politics is that you know there's a there's not usually
another election tomorrow or next week or next year, and
you know we get to do this all over again
and have these very same conversations all over again.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well, we we will see what happens. Scott Brown is
always thanks for thanks for checking and tonight you have
some skin in this game. So uh, I hope that
that you and you and UH and John E. Snunu
carry on in uh gentleman tradition, and that each of
you throw your support to the other when it's over,
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and and that that the Republicans at least can pick
up one seat in New Hampshire, I.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Mean about New England. How about a seat in New England?
You know it is funny. I can't wait for Mom
Dining to come up and campaign with Chris Bappas. That's
gonna be fun because socialism is not welcome in the
first in the nation primary state.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
That's I will bet you. I will bet you that
you will not be fortunate enough to have But you
can only pray for that. Scott.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I know, I know, I know, I know, Comrade Chris,
you'll love it.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, all right, Thank Scott. Have a great night tonight.
Scott Brown checking in tonight. He's looking forward. Now we're
going to get to more phone callers. Uh. You don't
have to be running for the US Senate to call
nightside again. I stand by my position. The Democrats have
had a very good night tonight, A better night than
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I'm sure many of them expected. What does this augur
If I'm Donald Trump. I'm looking at those numbers tonight,
I'm thinking to myself, Gee, can we hold the House?
Can we hold the Senate? Those those are real concerns
that he has at this point. And I don't know
that he's going to change his his persona. I don't
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think he can change his persona. But I do think
some of the the memes that he has sent out
cost him votes. And I think that there are a
lot of people who tonight wanted to send a message
to him through their votes in New Jersey and Virginia.
Maybe I'm wrong. Whether I'm right or wrong doesn't matter.
What most is. What most important to me is what
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you think. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty
six one, seven, nine, three, ten thirty This is a
tremendous uh really place table center for twenty twenty six midterms.
Back on Knight's side joined the conversation, Let's have at it,
have some fun. Back on nights side. Right after the
news at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Let's go to the phones. Ken in wal Dam Ken
I assume you're celebrating tonight.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Well, I'm certainly happy with the results. I wish you know.
What I was going to start off by saying, is
when you have a Biden presidency and Harris ends up
being in a candidate, you know you you get Donald
Trump as president. And now when you have Donald Trumps
president and I think many many failures, you know you're
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going to start having big Democratic wins. And Democrats have
been winning special elections all during twenty twenty five. This
is not a surprise at all.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well, a special election is a different thing. So tell me,
give me your your top three failures for Donald Trump.
What what has he done? And that in terms of
substantive issues, I suspected most people in Virginia and New
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Jersey who have, for one case, have seen I Ra's
I should say, have seen those. Those the value of
those go on? What has he done that has been
that has been so so negative?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Well, certainly so. You know I lived in the DC
area for eight years. I actually lived in northern Virginia,
right outside the city.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Sure, yeah, and which is a lot. It's a government town.
I get it. A lot of people work for the
government and a lot of.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
People don't are out of work from there all because
of Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
See, well, we're going to disagree on that, because they
have been what is it, number fourteen votes right to
you open the government.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
How, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about USAID.
I'm talking about CFPB, the Department of Educating, right, all
the places.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
That's fair. That's fair. I'll give you that point. Yeah,
that's a good point.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
So he by the way, he you know, I'm not sure.
I mean, Donald Trump has been going his Pulley numbers
have been dropping slowly since he became president in virtually
every area, right, But I think this kind of election
is more about, you know, the anti Trump vote is
so strong that those people all came out to vote,
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you know, in general and being very Oh.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I think you're right. I think that. Look you look
at either one of these races. Look at Virginia, Look
at New Jersey. Cinderelli came within two points of knocking
off an incumbent government. He's going to lose by ten
or ten or twelve points this time. So this is
a guy who was that close to the governor's office.
I don't think he's made any mistakes and he's been
campaigning for it. He's done. In Virginia, Glenn Lunk Glenn
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Youngkin has a fifty seven percent positive rating. He won
by by just not a few votes. I think it
was sixty thousand votes four years ago. But he's grown.
Youngkin has grown his popularity from fifty percent to fifty
seven percent, and yet his lieutenant governor no coattails for
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for Glen young For that Glenn Youngkin provided to win
some earl sears, you.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Know, it would have been interesting to see a Spanberger
Youngkin election.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
He would have blew roy. He would have blown her
out of the water.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I don't think. Well, first of all, I disagree.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I think, well you got you got it. He's got
a fifty seven percent approval race rating. He could run
for you, I think.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I think so. While Spanburger, you know, she won Eric
Canter's district. If you remember who he.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Was, I remember can He was number three. The Republicans
bumped him off. Actually he got knocked out in a primary.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
He did get knocked out in a primary. But you know,
a conservative district, Spanburger is very is not Mam Donnie
or AOC. She's a very monument. I think you know
this is gonna sound really pious guy and ridiculous. But today,
if there were a Spanburger Brown, Uh wait, it's the
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Senate candidate. Suddenly I forgot his name, but Scott Brown. Yeah,
if there was a Spanburger Brown election in New Hampshire,
I think Spanberger would have beat him. Given a state
of art politician, you.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Could you can you can come up with with all
of that. And again it's a hypothetical. I think Scott
Brown and uh and and John johnny sonnu have a
real possibility. Whoever survives that race if they run the
race intelligently, and it'll be a close race. Whoever survives
it gets the endorsement of the other And I think
that the Republicans pick up a seat. But look, you
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still haven't given me. You tell me that that the
doze cuts had an impact in Virginia. Okay, what else?
What else has Trump done or failed to do? Do
you do you think you're hitting? Let me ask you this.
Do you think that him taking Iran off the stage
as a nuclear player? People are saying, oh, no, we
want to run back with nuclear weapons. I don't think so.
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I don't think so. Has he showed a little bit
more energy than his predecessor.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
He sure has look at all the But okay, so Dan,
I supported Trump in the Iran bombing.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Right, I know that. That's why I don't.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I'm not sure that people care that much about it
today at the polls. Well, I think you.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Want to think you can. I'll grid you that the
attention span of the American public is pretty short. Right now.
He's blowing these drug boats out of the water in
uh in the Caribbean. Did they really think that these
are like families out in pleasure crafts that he's born up.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I think that. I think it's a nis. So the
problem is that's Donald Trump, Dan, Donald Trump who said
that he had a conversation with his uncle about the unibomber.
I mean, and you know how that imploded, right, I mean,
I know, you know, because his uncle died ten years
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before we even knew who the unibomber was.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
And Hill Hillary Clinton was named after Sir Edmund Hillary,
although she was born five years before Hillary Cline Mount Everest. Yeah,
they all, they all have done that.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
But you know, I mean I think it Trump takes
it to new levels. I mean, I think I would
hope you would see that. I think you just don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Stylistically, the idea, the idea of of of you know,
some of some of the the photograph of not the
photograph what they call it, a meme of him flying
over New York City and uh uh and bombing, you know,
dropping uh waste from new from the airplane look stylistically horrible.
But he's not going to change. And maybe that's what
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the Democrats need, is is Donald Trump on Jane. Let's see,
let's see what happens.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
You know, I am not you know, I'm happy the
Democrats won, but I'm not rejoicing because I know why
they're winning. They're winning, in my view, because Trump is
so horrible. I voted for Haley in the primaries. I
registered as a Republican and vote against Trump, and she
would have She would have cleaned Biden's clock in an election,
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and I think we'd be a much better country if
she were president right now.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
So I'll tell you this, I'm not sure that the
that these drug boats from Venezuela, which which are carrying
a lot of bad stuff and not getting into the country,
I liked. I enjoy seeing those bunk those boats sunk,
uh and the and the drugs which would killed young
Americans who are who are who were for whatever reason
allowing themselves to be exposed to this stuff which can
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kill them. I don't know how many young Americans lives
will be saved. We'll see, let's see what happens. Ken.
I loved you call, took you first as I do
not regret that call, and congratulations on tonight. Your your
party had had a couple of very significant wins New
York City. Less significant that might come back to bite you,
but you've got two governorships and doubt and governorships are
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really important. I got a screwed can Okay because I
brief minutes, love the call. We'll keep rolling here. I'm
gonna I can't give everybody nine minutes, but I'm going
to be as uh, give you an opportunity. I want
to sit back and hear what you got to say.
I think it's a bad night for the Republicans. There's
no question in my mind. Scott Scott Brown disagrees with me.
I have immense respect for Scott. Feel free join this conversation.
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We're going to talk about this till midnight either way.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Coming up next on the other side. I got Dan
and Hampton, New Hampshire. I got Tom and Medway, I
I got Carolyn Randolph, and I got some room for you. You
know the numbers, doll Away.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on w b Z,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Here's an interesting factoid out of New Jersey. Among the
New Jersey counties that have reported most of their votes,
according to Alicia Parlapiano, the reporter I believe for the
New York Times, all have voted more Democratic than they
did in the twenty twenty four presidential race. Gloucester County,
outside Philadelphia voted for Ciderelli in twenty twenty one and
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Trump in twenty twenty four, but flipped back to the
Democrats this year. Let's go next to Carolyn Randolph. Carol,
You're next on Nightside.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Welcome, Hi Dan, How are you good?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Good, good good? What's your thought on tonight?
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Well, you know, I listened to the election results and everything,
and it's not surprising to me that the Democrats won.
But the thing that I don't think they take into
consideration is people that I'm migrating out of these states
and leaving.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Well, all I'm saying is that the Democratic candidates in
New Jersey and in Virginia for governor have exceeded what
Kamala Harris carried these two states a year ago. But
she carried both these states with fifty two percent of
the vote. Tonight, those two Democratic members of Congress who
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will now soon be governors of New Jersey and Virginia
carried their states by fifty by fifty six percent of
the vote. They grew their vote, grew their vote, but
then it was still so close. I mean, close to
fifty six to forty four is not a close election.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
No, I know, but I mean I just don't think.
I mean, I think people are moving out of these
states and that's what's going on. I mean, how do
you have, like, instead of Wall Street, you got y'all
Street down in Dallas, Texas. I mean, it's right.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
But what happens then is states that the Republicans periodically
can pick up a presidential election, like a Virginia, maybe
even like a Pennsylvania as they did last time, a Michigan.
When those are back in playing the Democrats pick them up.
Those are the states that decide the presidential election.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
I know, I know, it's scary.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Well, you know again, it's not scary if you're a Democrat. Tonight,
Tonight the Democrats are celebrating as well they should. And
I'm not going to sit here and mislead people and
say it was a great night for the Republicans. This
was a disastrous night for the Republicans. My friend Scott
Brown and I disagree on it. I think he's New
Hampshire centric, and I think he's focusing on what he
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and the Republicans need to do, either he or John E.
Sanou who need to do to take back that seat
to get a republic Can in the US Senate from
New Hampshire. I'm looking at the broader picture here, and
I'm looking at Virginia. I'm looking at New Jersey, and
I'm looking a guy named Cidarelli who came this close
to unseating an incumbent Democratic governor four years ago, and
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tonight he's blown out of the water.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
I know, but.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Hey, you know, like anything else, politics is like sports.
You have to make adjustments. You know, the Patriots have
a bad first half, they go into the locker room
and they make some adjustments and they come up and
win the game.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
So at the end of the day, we'll all recover
no matter what.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Oh, let us hope. So we live in the greatest
country in the world, whoever's.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Running at Yes, let's not ever forget.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
That, no doubt. Carol, Thank you much, Talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Okay, take care of I have a great night.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
All right, let me keep rolling here. We're gonna get
in next. Tom is in Medway. Tommy're next on nightside.
Got a couple of minutes for you if you have
to hold you into the next hour. If you can
wrap it up, you go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (34:02):
All right?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Perfectly?
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Okay? I was not surprised. I knew that that the
Democrats would make a clean sweep, but I was even
more sure that they would make a clean sweep after
that interview that he did on sixty minutes. I'm sure
Nora o'donna's o'donnald is sitting back smiling tonight.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
She maybe My view on it was that they both
handled themselves well. She gave Trump an opportunity to say
what he wanted to say, and Trump had an opportunity
to sit there. He just won sixteen million dollars from
from from the old CBS.
Speaker 7 (34:36):
Yeah, well, I mean, he sat there and just made
one fantastical eye after another, and people may.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Give me give me two of the most fantastic.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Well, let me ask you.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
He said that people, he said, people with four one
case the for a one case doubled. I think he
actually said more than doubled.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, one case have not doubled.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
No, they have a fantastic why no.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
No, no, But what says if you had a four
roh one K that you had been investing in over
the last ten years or twenty.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
Years, That's not what he was implying.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
No, I understand that, but I'm agreeing with you. But
I'm saying, is it possible, well as somebody who just
jumped into the four roh one K early this year
could have seen his or her four one k double, Yeah,
but not anyone who held it for launch.
Speaker 7 (35:23):
Just also to the fact that the back line, the
fact that this morning Marjorie Taylor Green went on The
View this morning and basically said, uh, in no uncertain terms,
this is a Republican shutdown. And she said that Mike
Johnson told her privately that they have no solution to healthcare.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Who said this?
Speaker 5 (35:42):
Who said Marjorie Taylor Green well again.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
You know it's funny. Most Democrats, and I assume you're
a Democrats think that she's a complete nut job, except
when she says something nutty like that that.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
Mike, are you saying she was lying?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I think she's capable of it. Yeah, or maybe she's
capable of misinterpreted the truth. Do you want to hold
on here? I don't want to sure change you.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
I can hold you, yeah, yeah, Yaharicul.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Right after the eleven o'clock news, we'll be back on
night's side. I got really only one line open here,
so jump on six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty.
Love to hear your take on a night that the
Republicans are licking their wounds.
He's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Coostin's new radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, election results are starting to come in, and at
this point it looks as if the Democrats have had
a very good night. They have picked up a governorship
in Virginia, and they have defended a governorship in New Jersey,
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and Jack Chiterell Cidarelli has now conceded to Mickey Cheryl
in New Jersey. H And this this is an interesting
set of results, and they are not results that the
Trump administration is going to be happy about. We also
will be looking at well, for example, we will look
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right now at the Virginia race. Now again, I don't
want to get lost in numbers here, but to put
this in perspective and to be candid, this has been
a very good night for the Democrats, who have not
had very many good nights since last November. And let
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me try to put in a context for you. In Virginia,
a Democratic congresswoman, Abigail Spanberger, she's a former CIA agent,
has won the governorship of Virginia with a big number.
Ninety percent of the votes have been counted and she
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has fifty six point six percent of the vote. Winsome
Earl Sears the current lieutenant governor. She was Lieutenant Governor
Glenn Youngkin, who interestingly enough, has a fifty seven percent
approval rating in Virginia. That is a big number for
any governor to have a fifty seven percent approval rating.
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And yet his coattails did to help his lieutenant governor
when he won this race. When he won this seat
in twenty twenty one, four years ago this month, he
edged out longtime Democratic activist Terry mccauliffe by only about
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sixty three thousand votes. It was not a razor thin margin,
but it was. Youngin had fifty point six percent of
the vote. Now, after a successful four year term in
which his fifty six percent of the vote grew to
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where fifty seven percent of the voters in Virginia gave
him an approval rating, his running mate, his lieutenant governor
win some Earl Sears only came up with forty three
percent of the vote. That is a big win for
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the Democrats. That is a six percent increase for the Democrats.
And to give you an example, when Vice President Harris
ran against Donald Trump in twenty twenty four year ago,
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Harris Kamala Harris had fifty two percent of the vote.
She carried Virginia. Virginia is a Democratic state, but now
tonight Spanberger is close to five percentage points ahead of Harris,
So that's a big win for the Democrats tonight. Make
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no mistake about it. Her coattails apparently have now also
won the race for the Democratic candidate for Attorney General,
Jay Jones. He has defeated the incumbent Republican Attorney General,
Jason my Yars. My Yars, this race did tighten up somewhat,
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but it didn't tighten up enough. Jones is the guy
who had, I guess sent an email to a friend
a few years ago that he wished he could put
a couple of bullets in the head of the Republican
Speaker of the House. Despite that language, Democrats gave Jones
a four percent five percent win tonight with ninety percent
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of the votes counted. So Virginia, which which was a
state that the Republicans were hoping they could pick up
a governorship, didn't happen. Meanwhile, meanwhile, in New Jersey, and
by the way, these two states are very interesting in
that they're both on the East coast. One is a
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northern state, New Jersey and one is sort of considered
a southern state for Rginia, but they're very close. Virginia's
population is about eight point seven million, New Jersey about
nine million, so they're very close in size, and their
numbers tonight are pretty close as well. Mickey Cheryl, a congresswoman,
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faced off against Jack Cidarelli. Now. Sidarelli two years ago
had forty eight percent of the vote. He came very
close to on seating Phil Murphy, the incumbent Democrat. Murphy's
numbers are way down. He has an approval rating of
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about forty seven percent, and many people thought that this
was Cidarelli's race to win because he had forty eight
percent four years ago. Tonight he's down about five percent
and forty three percent. So the Republicans not only lost
both Virginia and New Jersey, but they lost those races
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by substantial margins. And even though they won Virginia two
years ago, it is now a pickup for the Democrats
and New Jersey becomes almost an embarrassment for Cidarelli, who
seemed to have some momentum behind him now in New Jersey.
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In New Jersey, assuming that with eighty four percent of
the votes. In Ryl's numbers pretty much hold as they will.
Harris won Vice President Kamala Harris won New Jersey again
very similar to Virginia. She got fifty two percent of
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the vote and Donald Trump had forty six. Both of
those states, similar in size, went fifty two forty six
for the Democrat over President Trump in twenty twenty four,
So these are not easy states for Republicans. However, tonight
both Spanberger, the Democrat in Virginia, is doing better on
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a percentage basis than Harris did a year ago, doing
better by about four points, and the same in New Jersey.
The Democrat Ryl in New Jersey is doing better by
four points that Harris did a year ago in New Jersey.
So this is a bad night for Donald Trump and
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a bad night for the Republicans, even up against what
most would say has been a pretty successful nine months
for President Trump in that he has followed through and
successful accomplished several of the things that he had promised.
(08:05):
So I want to open the phone lines up and
I want to have your reaction to this. We'll take
a look at the New York City mayor's race as well,
and we'll also take a look at and that seems
to be going eighty nine percent of the votes in there.
It looks as if Mom Donnie is going to get
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just above fifty percent of the vote. Cuomo the Independent
is at forty one point six percent of the vote,
and Sleewa the Republican is seven point two percent of
the vote. It looks as if Cuomo picked up some
of Sleewah's support in Staten Island. On Staten Island, but
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not enough. So it's a swite for the Democrats. Mandani
becomes the next mayor of New York. We have a
Democratic Socialist mayor of New York and the Democrats win
both governors races tonight. Interesting interesting issues and we'll get
to the to the issues. Here in Massachusetts and well
(09:13):
certainly in Boston, it's more city council races because at
this point Michelle wou is running unopposed the number six two, six, seven,
nine thirty. You can join us. We have an interesting
guest already on the guest line, and feel free to
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join the conversation. I'll introduce that guest in a moment
back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We're following the results in Virginia, New Jersey, New York City.
The Democrats have swept the board and despite a lot
of efforts to help the Cuomo campaign in New York City,
that apparently has fallen flat as well. And we're also
going to be canty Boston City Hall results as the
evening goes on. They are going to come in a
(10:05):
little bit more slowly. Unfortunately, joining us is a very
familiar face, and I'm delighted to talk with former US
Senator from Massachusetts now a Republican senatorial candidate in New Hampshire,
Scott Brown. Scott, this is not good news for the
Republicans tonight.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Well, then, I was actually listening to your analysis. I
was going to have a nice relaxing ride home, and
I had to just remind you that New Jersey has
eight hundred thousand more registered Democrats than Republicans. Number one.
New York's Democrat to Republican is seven to one, and
in the last couple of years, a lot of those
people that would have helped in both of those states,
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quite frankly, a lot of them have actually moved. So
what do you have now do you have basically a
socialist in a semi who basically is going to be
the face of the rudderless Democratic Party and who's going
to be campaigning in places like New Hampshire for Chris
Pappits and all around the country. So to think somehow
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this is anything more to do with the fact that
these are definitely blue states. There are always blue states.
And in Virginia, listen with the government shut down, a
lot of government workers there and feel on the pain.
And she wasn't, respectfully a wonderful woman, but wasn't a
good candidate. She definitely was not Glenn Younkin. So the
sky is not falling. You know. I didn't think that
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they were going to win, and you know my predictions
were accurate.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Well, yeah, they swept the board. And the thing that
to me is interesting is that even the difference of
a year both in Virginia and New Jersey, I can
put New York aside as an anomaly. And frankly that
might be a gift for the Republican Party because I
think that that's only going to incent more you know,
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very progressive social members of Social Democrats for America to
infiltrate the Democratic Party and they there will be more Zorahan.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
They are the Democratic Party. They are the Democratic Party
right now. There's no, there's no The old blue dog
Democrats JFK would never be allowed, Gosh, Ted Kennedy would
not be allowed in this party. And Obama and those
guys they're like old timers. So no, this is a
new Democratic Party where you have you know, my Mamdani
and AOC and and a lot of the other folks
(12:24):
there that are basically, you know, just trying to you know,
they're against everything the president's doing, certainly, but the men
and boys and women in girls' sports, open border, sanctuary cities,
you know, tearing away at the very fabric of our country.
And quite frankly, that's one of the reasons I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Running well again. I I just look at these numbers
and I realized that Kamala Harris in both New Jersey
and Virginia, two similar states, but also a little residential.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Though then it's a presidential it's a whole different ballgame.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You know. It's no that at that, But I'm saying
that the even with a successful year for the president,
I was looking at some of the internal polls that
were coming out of Virginia and New Jersey today and
I didn't see much in the you know, Donald Trump
was not being given much. But the point I wanted
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to make was that that Harris in both of those
states gets fifty two percent. She carries Virginia in New Jersey, fine,
but both a Spamburger and Cheryl have increased the Democratic
percentage in this election. One year later by five percentage points.
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They were up in fifty six fifty seven territory. And Cidarelli,
who came very close against an incumbent Democrat in twenty
twenty one, got blown up tonight and I thought he
actually had a chance of winning in that state.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, I never did. It's twenty twenty five, man, you know,
lots lots of change. Then, I mean, look at what
the country and the world have gone through. They went
through and intends election they went through. COVID obviously still
picking up the pieces from the Biden disaster, the open borders,
sanctuary cities, you know, all the things that you're finding.
And yeah, it's uncomfortable to deal with a lot of
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these things. But there is the answer that that you know,
the president does nothing that we continue to have the
open borders and we continue to do a lot of
the things that.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I don't I agree with you, I would agree with
you that. Let me ask you this. You're a candidate
for next year in New Hampshire, and I know that
you feel that you will prevail and you will be
the nominee for the Republican Party in New Hampshire next year.
When you look at these numbers after the successes that
Donald Trump has had, you're basically suggesting to me that
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there are a number of factors off your factors. I
get it. But Glenn Young one in Virginia, Glenn youngin
had a fifty seven percent approval rate from voters that
that did not carry for his lieutenant governor at all.
What does this augur for the for the midterm elections
where you're going to be front and center and your
(15:17):
your race might be one of the races where the
Republicans have a really good chance of picking up a
US senden see.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Well, first of all, she is definitely not Glenn Young
And I mean he was a very special man a
special time and did a great job and it will
end with a very high approval rating. And if you're
looking in New Hampshire, it really comes down to not
only in the state's you're referring to a but in
New Hampshire comes down to the candidates. You know, individual candidates,
what they bring to the office, and a lot of
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the things you're seeing the president do, respectfully, a lot
of the economic matters and others whether you're speaking to
you know, a lot of the economic advisors they'll be
clicking in in the next six to eight months. And
you know, it takes time to fix specfully once again
the mess that we were left with. So yeah, listen,
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it's a long, long year, almost a year away from
the primary here. You know, it just comes down to
hard work. And I think New Hampshire is a lot
different than those states because we have a Republican governor
in Kelly Aid, a supermajority in the Senate, a large
majority in the House of supermajority, and the Executive Council.
And we don't have no income tax, no sales tax,
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no interest in dividends tax. You know, carry a gun
or not, motorcycle, helmet or not, no bottle bill. So
that New Hampshire advantage is real, and it's different than
New Jersey with the highest tax rate. You know, it
was eleven point ninety five in New York City. You know,
which you have, the high cost of living in a
whole host of other things. I thought, is you had,
you know, a good message to young people who basically
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haven't been in the workforce, they can't afford to live there.
But the answer is not, you know, giving away other
people's money and opening up government run grocery stores. What
do they have forty one thousand grocery stores in New
York City?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Five? Yeah, which is what you do? And again, I
can understand the vote in New York City. I don't
understand the vote in New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah I do. I mean it's eight hundred thousand more
registered Democrats, and a lot of those Democrats because of
the high taxes, the lack of safety and security, the
high energy costs, they've they've already left. They've either gone
to Florida or Texas.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
And they say, you say the Republicans have left? Yeah, yeah, Okay,
Well I'll tell you. I. I looked at the Ciderelli
campaign and I thought to myself, Okay, this guy came
very close this year. The New Jersey voters will give
him a chance. I thought the Republicans and Democrats would
split today. You thought that the Dems would carry both
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New Jersey in Virginia.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
And yeah, no I'm not. I don't know if I'm
if I'm glad, I'm right, or I'm not glad, But
I do know that Mom Donny is a new face
of the Democratic Parties and Anni smighties not in favor
of law enforcement and the police for sure. You know,
he wants to basically tear apart in our society as
we know, a rip up capitalism. This is guy who
(18:09):
is at a silver spoon in his mouth and went
to boat and you know his parents are millionaires. Yet
you know he wants to, you know, obviously destroy the
very fabric of our I'm sure his.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Money's are safely in sconstant trust somewhere, so.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
He doesn't trusts, you know, Dan, you know what the
beauty of it is. And the thing I love about
politics is that you know there's a there's not usually
another election tomorrow or next week or next year, and
you know we get to do this all over again
and have these very same conversations all over again.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well, we we will see what happens. Scott Brown is
always thanks for thanks for checking and tonight you have
some skin in this game. So uh, I hope that
that you and you and UH and John E. Snunu
carry on in uh gentleman tradition, and that each of
you throw your support to the other when it's over,
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and and that that the Republicans at least can pick
up one seat in New Hampshire, I.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Mean about New England. How about a seat in New England?
You know it is funny. I can't wait for Mom
Dining to come up and campaign with Chris Bappas. That's
gonna be fun because socialism is not welcome in the
first in the nation primary state.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
That's I will bet you. I will bet you that
you will not be fortunate enough to have But you
can only pray for that. Scott.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I know, I know, I know, I know, Comrade Chris,
you'll love it.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, all right, Thank Scott. Have a great night tonight.
Scott Brown checking in tonight. He's looking forward. Now we're
going to get to more phone callers. Uh. You don't
have to be running for the US Senate to call
nightside again. I stand by my position. The Democrats have
had a very good night tonight, A better night than
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I'm sure many of them expected. What does this augur
If I'm Donald Trump. I'm looking at those numbers tonight,
I'm thinking to myself, Gee, can we hold the House?
Can we hold the Senate? Those those are real concerns
that he has at this point. And I don't know
that he's going to change his his persona. I don't
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think he can change his persona. But I do think
some of the the memes that he has sent out
cost him votes. And I think that there are a
lot of people who tonight wanted to send a message
to him through their votes in New Jersey and Virginia.
Maybe I'm wrong. Whether I'm right or wrong doesn't matter.
What most is. What most important to me is what
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you think. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty
six one, seven, nine, three, ten thirty This is a
tremendous uh really place table center for twenty twenty six midterms.
Back on Knight's side joined the conversation, Let's have at it,
have some fun. Back on nights side. Right after the
news at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Let's go to the phones. Ken in wal Dam Ken
I assume you're celebrating tonight.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Well, I'm certainly happy with the results. I wish you know.
What I was going to start off by saying, is
when you have a Biden presidency and Harris ends up
being in a candidate, you know you you get Donald
Trump as president. And now when you have Donald Trumps
president and I think many many failures, you know you're
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going to start having big Democratic wins. And Democrats have
been winning special elections all during twenty twenty five. This
is not a surprise at all.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well, a special election is a different thing. So tell me,
give me your your top three failures for Donald Trump.
What what has he done? And that in terms of
substantive issues, I suspected most people in Virginia and New
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Jersey who have, for one case, have seen I Ra's
I should say, have seen those. Those the value of
those go on? What has he done that has been
that has been so so negative?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Well, certainly so. You know I lived in the DC
area for eight years. I actually lived in northern Virginia,
right outside the city.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Sure, yeah, and which is a lot. It's a government town.
I get it. A lot of people work for the
government and a lot of.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
People don't are out of work from there all because
of Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
See, well, we're going to disagree on that, because they
have been what is it, number fourteen votes right to
you open the government.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
How, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about USAID.
I'm talking about CFPB, the Department of Educating, right, all
the places.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
That's fair. That's fair. I'll give you that point. Yeah,
that's a good point.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
So he by the way, he you know, I'm not sure.
I mean, Donald Trump has been going his Pulley numbers
have been dropping slowly since he became president in virtually
every area, right, But I think this kind of election
is more about, you know, the anti Trump vote is
so strong that those people all came out to vote,
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you know, in general and being very Oh.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I think you're right. I think that. Look you look
at either one of these races. Look at Virginia, Look
at New Jersey. Cinderelli came within two points of knocking
off an incumbent government. He's going to lose by ten
or ten or twelve points this time. So this is
a guy who was that close to the governor's office.
I don't think he's made any mistakes and he's been
campaigning for it. He's done. In Virginia, Glenn Lunk Glenn
(24:05):
Youngkin has a fifty seven percent positive rating. He won
by by just not a few votes. I think it
was sixty thousand votes four years ago. But he's grown.
Youngkin has grown his popularity from fifty percent to fifty
seven percent, and yet his lieutenant governor no coattails for
(24:27):
for Glen young For that Glenn Youngkin provided to win
some earl sears, you.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Know, it would have been interesting to see a Spanberger
Youngkin election.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
He would have blew roy. He would have blown her
out of the water.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I don't think. Well, first of all, I disagree.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I think, well you got you got it. He's got
a fifty seven percent approval race rating. He could run
for you, I think.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I think so. While Spanburger, you know, she won Eric
Canter's district. If you remember who he.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Was, I remember can He was number three. The Republicans
bumped him off. Actually he got knocked out in a primary.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
He did get knocked out in a primary. But you know,
a conservative district, Spanburger is very is not Mam Donnie
or AOC. She's a very monument. I think you know
this is gonna sound really pious guy and ridiculous. But today,
if there were a Spanburger Brown, Uh wait, it's the
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Senate candidate. Suddenly I forgot his name, but Scott Brown. Yeah,
if there was a Spanburger Brown election in New Hampshire,
I think Spanberger would have beat him. Given a state
of art politician, you.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Could you can you can come up with with all
of that. And again it's a hypothetical. I think Scott
Brown and uh and and John johnny sonnu have a
real possibility. Whoever survives that race if they run the
race intelligently, and it'll be a close race. Whoever survives
it gets the endorsement of the other And I think
that the Republicans pick up a seat. But look, you
(26:07):
still haven't given me. You tell me that that the
doze cuts had an impact in Virginia. Okay, what else?
What else has Trump done or failed to do? Do
you do you think you're hitting? Let me ask you this.
Do you think that him taking Iran off the stage
as a nuclear player? People are saying, oh, no, we
want to run back with nuclear weapons. I don't think so.
(26:28):
I don't think so. Has he showed a little bit
more energy than his predecessor.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
He sure has look at all the But okay, so Dan,
I supported Trump in the Iran bombing.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Right, I know that. That's why I don't.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I'm not sure that people care that much about it
today at the polls. Well, I think you.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Want to think you can. I'll grid you that the
attention span of the American public is pretty short. Right now.
He's blowing these drug boats out of the water in
uh in the Caribbean. Did they really think that these
are like families out in pleasure crafts that he's born up.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I think that. I think it's a nis. So the
problem is that's Donald Trump, Dan, Donald Trump who said
that he had a conversation with his uncle about the unibomber.
I mean, and you know how that imploded, right, I mean,
I know, you know, because his uncle died ten years
(27:30):
before we even knew who the unibomber was.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
And Hill Hillary Clinton was named after Sir Edmund Hillary,
although she was born five years before Hillary Cline Mount Everest. Yeah,
they all, they all have done that.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
But you know, I mean I think it Trump takes
it to new levels. I mean, I think I would
hope you would see that. I think you just don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Stylistically, the idea, the idea of of of you know,
some of some of the the photograph of not the
photograph what they call it, a meme of him flying
over New York City and uh uh and bombing, you know,
dropping uh waste from new from the airplane look stylistically horrible.
But he's not going to change. And maybe that's what
(28:15):
the Democrats need, is is Donald Trump on Jane. Let's see,
let's see what happens.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
You know, I am not you know, I'm happy the
Democrats won, but I'm not rejoicing because I know why
they're winning. They're winning, in my view, because Trump is
so horrible. I voted for Haley in the primaries. I
registered as a Republican and vote against Trump, and she
would have She would have cleaned Biden's clock in an election,
(28:41):
and I think we'd be a much better country if
she were president right now.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
So I'll tell you this, I'm not sure that the
that these drug boats from Venezuela, which which are carrying
a lot of bad stuff and not getting into the country,
I liked. I enjoy seeing those bunk those boats sunk,
uh and the and the drugs which would killed young
Americans who are who are who were for whatever reason
allowing themselves to be exposed to this stuff which can
(29:07):
kill them. I don't know how many young Americans lives
will be saved. We'll see, let's see what happens. Ken.
I loved you call, took you first as I do
not regret that call, and congratulations on tonight. Your your
party had had a couple of very significant wins New
York City. Less significant that might come back to bite you,
but you've got two governorships and doubt and governorships are
(29:29):
really important. I got a screwed can Okay because I
brief minutes, love the call. We'll keep rolling here. I'm
gonna I can't give everybody nine minutes, but I'm going
to be as uh, give you an opportunity. I want
to sit back and hear what you got to say.
I think it's a bad night for the Republicans. There's
no question in my mind. Scott Scott Brown disagrees with me.
I have immense respect for Scott. Feel free join this conversation.
(29:52):
We're going to talk about this till midnight either way.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Coming up next on the other side. I got Dan
and Hampton, New Hampshire. I got Tom and Medway, I
I got Carolyn Randolph, and I got some room for you. You
know the numbers, doll Away.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on w b Z,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Here's an interesting factoid out of New Jersey. Among the
New Jersey counties that have reported most of their votes,
according to Alicia Parlapiano, the reporter I believe for the
New York Times, all have voted more Democratic than they
did in the twenty twenty four presidential race. Gloucester County,
outside Philadelphia voted for Ciderelli in twenty twenty one and
(30:33):
Trump in twenty twenty four, but flipped back to the
Democrats this year. Let's go next to Carolyn Randolph. Carol,
You're next on Nightside.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Welcome, Hi Dan, How are you good?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Good, good good? What's your thought on tonight?
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Well, you know, I listened to the election results and everything,
and it's not surprising to me that the Democrats won.
But the thing that I don't think they take into
consideration is people that I'm migrating out of these states
and leaving.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Well, all I'm saying is that the Democratic candidates in
New Jersey and in Virginia for governor have exceeded what
Kamala Harris carried these two states a year ago. But
she carried both these states with fifty two percent of
the vote. Tonight, those two Democratic members of Congress who
(31:29):
will now soon be governors of New Jersey and Virginia
carried their states by fifty by fifty six percent of
the vote. They grew their vote, grew their vote, but
then it was still so close. I mean, close to
fifty six to forty four is not a close election.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
No, I know, but I mean I just don't think.
I mean, I think people are moving out of these
states and that's what's going on. I mean, how do
you have, like, instead of Wall Street, you got y'all
Street down in Dallas, Texas. I mean, it's right.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
But what happens then is states that the Republicans periodically
can pick up a presidential election, like a Virginia, maybe
even like a Pennsylvania as they did last time, a Michigan.
When those are back in playing the Democrats pick them up.
Those are the states that decide the presidential election.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
I know, I know, it's scary.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Well, you know again, it's not scary if you're a Democrat. Tonight,
Tonight the Democrats are celebrating as well they should. And
I'm not going to sit here and mislead people and
say it was a great night for the Republicans. This
was a disastrous night for the Republicans. My friend Scott
Brown and I disagree on it. I think he's New
Hampshire centric, and I think he's focusing on what he
(32:52):
and the Republicans need to do, either he or John E.
Sanou who need to do to take back that seat
to get a republic Can in the US Senate from
New Hampshire. I'm looking at the broader picture here, and
I'm looking at Virginia. I'm looking at New Jersey, and
I'm looking a guy named Cidarelli who came this close
to unseating an incumbent Democratic governor four years ago, and
(33:14):
tonight he's blown out of the water.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
I know, but.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Hey, you know, like anything else, politics is like sports.
You have to make adjustments. You know, the Patriots have
a bad first half, they go into the locker room
and they make some adjustments and they come up and
win the game.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
So at the end of the day, we'll all recover
no matter what.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Oh, let us hope. So we live in the greatest
country in the world, whoever's.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Running at Yes, let's not ever forget.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
That, no doubt. Carol, Thank you much, Talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Okay, take care of I have a great night.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
All right, let me keep rolling here. We're gonna get
in next. Tom is in Medway. Tommy're next on nightside.
Got a couple of minutes for you if you have
to hold you into the next hour. If you can
wrap it up, you go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (34:02):
All right?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Perfectly?
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Okay? I was not surprised. I knew that that the
Democrats would make a clean sweep, but I was even
more sure that they would make a clean sweep after
that interview that he did on sixty minutes. I'm sure
Nora o'donna's o'donnald is sitting back smiling tonight.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
She maybe My view on it was that they both
handled themselves well. She gave Trump an opportunity to say
what he wanted to say, and Trump had an opportunity
to sit there. He just won sixteen million dollars from
from from the old CBS.
Speaker 7 (34:36):
Yeah, well, I mean, he sat there and just made
one fantastical eye after another, and people may.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Give me give me two of the most fantastic.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Well, let me ask you.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
He said that people, he said, people with four one
case the for a one case doubled. I think he
actually said more than doubled.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, one case have not doubled.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
No, they have a fantastic why no.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
No, no, But what says if you had a four
roh one K that you had been investing in over
the last ten years or twenty.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
Years, That's not what he was implying.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
No, I understand that, but I'm agreeing with you. But
I'm saying, is it possible, well as somebody who just
jumped into the four roh one K early this year
could have seen his or her four one k double, Yeah,
but not anyone who held it for launch.
Speaker 7 (35:23):
Just also to the fact that the back line, the
fact that this morning Marjorie Taylor Green went on The
View this morning and basically said, uh, in no uncertain terms,
this is a Republican shutdown. And she said that Mike
Johnson told her privately that they have no solution to healthcare.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Who said this?
Speaker 5 (35:42):
Who said Marjorie Taylor Green well again.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
You know it's funny. Most Democrats, and I assume you're
a Democrats think that she's a complete nut job, except
when she says something nutty like that that.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
Mike, are you saying she was lying?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I think she's capable of it. Yeah, or maybe she's
capable of misinterpreted the truth. Do you want to hold
on here? I don't want to sure change you.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
I can hold you, yeah, yeah, Yaharicul.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Right after the eleven o'clock news, we'll be back on
night's side. I got really only one line open here,
so jump on six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty.
Love to hear your take on a night that the
Republicans are licking their wounds.
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