In this episode, Jon Decker breaks down the latest on the federal government shutdown and its growing impact on SNAP funding and everyday Americans. Senate leaders John Thune and Chuck Schumer weigh in on the political standoff shaping Washington as Election Day nears. Decker also explores President Trump’s surprising endorsement of Andrew Cuomo in the heated New York City mayoral race, plus new polling insights and predictions for key elections in Virginia and New Jersey.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the White House Briefing Room for Tuesday, November fourth.
I'm John Decker.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It's day thirty five of the federal government shutdown and
no movement on ending the impactse Senate Majority Leader John
Thune on the Senate floor blame Democrats for the shutdown.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It's been five weeks since Democrats shut down the government,
and once again we start this week by asking is
this the week the Democrats end their shutdown?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Also on the Senate floor, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,
who reiterated the Democrats' demands for ending the prolonged shutdown.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Democrats have been very clear from the start. We need
to lower people's healthcare costs. We need to reopen the government.
We need to extend the ACA premium credits. That is
what a majority of Americans.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's also election day in New Jersey, Virginia, and in
New York City and the President makes a surprise endorsement.
But we begin this Tuesday with the government shutdown and
some relief for the forty two million Americans that rely
on federal food assistants. The Trump administration said Monday that
(01:16):
it will use emergency funds to pay partial benefits under
the federal food assistance program known as SNAP for November,
but it warned that the process could still result in
delays in some states. A US federal judge, John McConnell
in Rhode Island, had directed the administration to detail how
(01:39):
it would comply with his order from Friday that requires
the government to use emergency funds to keep the SNAP program,
the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program during the federal government shutdown.
The judge gave the government two options, use billions of
dollars in contingency funding to make only partial payments, or
(02:01):
find other sources of funding to supplement that and pay
the full amount. In a filing on Monday, the government
said there was about four point sixty five billion dollar
in emergency funding to cover roughly fifty percent of monthly
payments for eligible households. SNAP benefits typically total about eight
(02:21):
billion dollars a month for approximately forty two million people.
It does not plan to tap other funds to pay
the full amount now. SNAP that's a program formerly known
as food stamps, helps millions of poor and disabled people
buy food. One in eight Americans relies on SNAP. The
(02:43):
federal government initially set ahead of the shutdown, which began
on October first, that it would keep paying SNAP benefits
using emergency funding. But on October tenth, the USDA Warren
state agencies who administer SNAP that it's the shutdown continued
it would not have enough funding to send full benefits
(03:05):
to people. In November, President Trump had no public events
on Monday, so we didn't see or hear from the President.
But we did see and hear from the leaders in
the Senate, the top Republican and the top Democrat. They
each took to the Senate floor and what they spoke
about was the federal government shutdown. When John Thune took
(03:28):
to the floor, he's the leader for Republicans, he said
that no party is benefiting from the ongoing shutdown.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
There are no winners in a government shutdown. There are
no winners, but there are plenty of losers. Chief among
them is the American people.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Thune has certainly faced pressure, nothing like those families that
depend on the federal government, and he listed the victims
of the government shutdown on the Senate floor.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Military families have turned to food banks and significant numbers
and they're not the only ones. Food banks in this
area and around the country have seen an influx of
federal workers who are missing paychecks due to the shutdown,
and things are set to get much worse with Snap
running on limited emergency funds and its future uncertain.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Thune believes that this week is a critical week for
the possibility of getting a deal to pass that continuing
resolution to fund the government and to reopen the government.
He spilled out the consequences so far of the thirty
five day federal government shutdown.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Banks to Democrats, millions more Americans, millions, mister President are
now at risk of going hungry, and you have the
Democrats shut down marches on.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And as Thune pointed out on that speech on the
Senate floor, there are many victims associated with the government
being shut down thanks to Democrats.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Head Start programs are beginning to close. Housing assistance programs
are at risk. Seniors and people in rural areas can't
access telehealth services. National Guard training is on hold, Veterans
programs are on pause. I'm sorry to say, I could
(05:24):
go on. Actually I could go on for a while.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Republicans often point to the fact that, as it relates
to all the votes on these continuing resolutions, there have
been three senators who caucus with Democrats who have consistently
voted with Republicans to reopen the federal government, and Thune
on the Senate floor said, not all Democrats are indeed
(05:50):
against reopening the federal government.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
The vast majority of Democrats in this body, we're perfectly
willing to prolong the shutdown in the American people's pain.
The vast majority of Democrats voted once again against a
clean continuing resolution, the only bill on offer that could
(06:17):
end all this suffering literally in a matter of our.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
The Senate has taken votes on fourteen separate occasions on
that clean continuing resolution that would reopen the federal government,
and fourteen times that CR has been defeated. Republicans, of course,
have a fifty three to forty seven advantage in the
US Senate, but to move this legislation procedurally, you need
(06:44):
sixty votes, and they are still five votes short. John
Thune on the Senate floor, explain what this clean R
would actually do.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
It would pay our troops, fun snap headstart veterans programs,
pay our staffers. Three Democrat senators already support that clean
continued resolutions to President, and the Democrat from Maine who
supported the clean CR, and the House said, and I quote,
(07:17):
there's a lot of important work to be done in Congress,
none of which will be any easier if manors are
suffering the harms of a government shut down end quote.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Republicans have over the course of the past month tried
to put pressure on Democrats to pass that continuing resolution,
that stop gap funding bill. And in addition to putting
on pressure coming from members of Congress, Democratic allies are
also trying to put pressure on Democrats to reopen the
(07:49):
federal government. And John Thune pointed that out.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
The Teamster's Union in the American Federation of Government Employees
more traditionally allies of Democrats to be frank have called
for Congress to spare the American people further pain and
to pass the can clean continuing resolution. And they're far
from the only ones.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
As soon pointed out, the CR is just that it's
a clean continuing resolution. There's nothing extraneous contained in that legislation.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
It's a very straightforward proposition. It's a twenty four page
bill sitting right here at the Senate desk. Not a
single new Republican policy, no partisan policy writers, nothing that
Democrats haven't supported. Before on numerous occasions, it just reopens
(08:48):
the government.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
For Democrats, the reason for their reluctance to support this
CR is because they want to put pressure on Republicans
to do something about aspiring subsidies for the Affordable Care Act.
As a result of those subsidies expiring, premiums for those
that get their insurance through the Affordable Care Act have skyrocketed,
(09:12):
and those Democrats say they will not vote for a
CR unless there's a commitment put in writing to do
something to extend those expiring Obamacare subsidies, and John Thune
on the Senate floor address that critical issue.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
As I've said more times than I can count, Republicans
are more than willing to have a healthcare discussion with Democrats.
In fact, had Democrats voted to reopen the government last week,
President Trump would be meeting with them this week. Unlike
Democrats who want to continue papering over the unaffordability of
(09:50):
Obamacare forevermore Republicans have ideas for actually lowering health care costs,
blowing costs not just for Americans on Obamacare, but also
for seniors, vulnerable Americans, and the majority of Americans who
get their healthcare through their employers.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
After John Thunne, the Senate Leader, made remarks that lasted
approximately eight minutes on the Senate floor, his counterpart Democratic
Leader Minority Leader Chuck Schumer from New York, also spoke
on the Senate floor, and Schumer immediately criticized the decision
by the Trump administration to only partially fund SNAP.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Providing partial benefits is not enough, is not compliant with
the law, and it's particularly cruel of Trump. With the
Thanksgiving season around the corner.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
This is a critical issue for Democrats and they see
an opening to try to force Republicans to come to
the negotiating table and make a compromise. Schumer said that
President Trump could provide this SNAP fund if he wanted.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
A few hours ago, the administration announced that it will
provide only partial SNAP benefits to forty two million Americans
facing food insecurity, even though the courts affirm that the
USDA has the transfer authority to ensure everyone can receive
full benefits. Everyone can get full benefits. The only person
(11:21):
standing in the way is Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Donald Trump both sides, Republicans and Democrats have dug in
their heels over the past five weeks, and Schumer sat
on the Senate floor that the shutdown is the fault
one hundred percent of President Donald Trump. Let's listen to
Chuck Schumer right here.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
And when Donald Trump was asked what he's doing to
end the shutdown, he said his usual nonsense, it's the
other side's fault, utterly ridiculous. Donald Trump is the president.
People look to him to negotiate to fix problems.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So White House putting out a statement a little bit
later in the afternoon. They wrote in that statement, with
essential workers like air traffic controllers and TSA agents being
forced to labor without paychecks, this past weekend saw the
worst weekend for staff since the Democrats shutdown began, and
(12:17):
they write in this statement, it's only going to get worse.
So that's the message now coming from Republicans. This, I said,
is a critical week for both parties to try to
find some compromise. The President now back in Washington, d C.
After his week long trip to Asia, and in fact,
later in the afternoon, John Thunne expressed some optimism that
(12:41):
there could be some resolution to this ongoing government shutdown.
Tuesday is also election day in many places across the country,
and on Monday, President Trump urged New York City voters
to back former New York Governor Andrew Cromo in the
race for New York's mayor. He officially threw his support
(13:03):
behind his one time rival, as Cuomo trails Zora Mandami,
a Democratic Socialist, in the polls. The President, of course,
is a native New Yorker, and he warned against supporting
Republican candidate Curtis Leiwa. He reasons that a vote for
Sliwa actually amounts to a vote for mam Dami, and
(13:25):
the President reiterated his threat to withhold federal funds from
New York City if Mamdami is victorious. The President put
out a post on Truth social He wrote, if communist
candidate Zora Mamdami wins the election for mayor of New
York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be
contributing federal funds other than the very minimum as required
(13:50):
to my beloved first home, because of the fact that
as a communist, this once great city has zero chance
of success or even sir, He went on to write,
it only can get worse with the Communist at the helm,
and I don't want to send as president good money
after bad. It is my obligation, the President wrote, to
(14:12):
run the nation, and it is my strong conviction that
New York City will be a complete and total economic
and social disaster should Mamdami win. His principles have been
tested for over a thousand years, and never once have
they been successful. The President wrote, I would much rather
see a Democrat who has had a record of success
(14:34):
win than a communist with no experience and a record
of complete and total failure. He was nothing as an assemblyman,
ranked at the bottom of the class, and as mayor
of potentially again the greatest city in the world, he
has no chance to bring it back to its former glory.
And the President concluded his social media post by writing,
(14:57):
we must also remember that a vote for Curtis Sliwa
is a vote for mam Dami. Whether you personally like
Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You
must vote for him and hope he does a fantastic job.
He is capable of it. Mam Dami is not.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
The vote in New York City is not the only
election that Democrats and Republicans are paying close attention to.
Democrats are favored to win back the Virginia governor's Mansion
and hold on to the New Jersey governorship. But even
if Democrats win in both of those states, they will
still wake up on Wednesday with a number of headaches.
(15:37):
And that's because they will have confusing messages possibly about
what the party, the Democratic Party stands for. Do they
need to be more moderate or more progressive if they
want to win in next year's midterm elections. Polling, of course,
has a mixed record in recent election cycles, but it
(15:58):
is important to look at pole to give a sense
about where each of these races are headed. And here's
what the polling tells us about those three major races
heading into Tuesday's election. In Virginia. Throughout the gubernatorial campaign,
former Congresswoman Abigail Spamberger she's a Democrat. She's maintained a
(16:19):
solid lead over Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earl Sears, the standard
bearer for Republicans. The latest poll coming from Emerson College
and The Hill, which was released on Saturday, showed Spamberger
leading Earl Sears fifty five to forty four percent, and
(16:39):
Spamberger in this latest poll actually increased her standing by
three points compared with the last time this poll was taken.
As for New Jersey, Mikey Cheryl, she's a former congresswoman
who's a Democrat. She is leading her Republican opponent, Jack Ciarelli,
but that race, according to polling, is close enough that
(17:02):
Democrats are very concerned about the possible outcome. An average
of polling shows that Cheryl is leading the Republican standard bearer,
Jack Ciarelli, fifty point one percent to forty five point
five percent. And it's important to remember that this gubernatorial
race is coming just a year after President Trump made
(17:25):
notable gains in New Jersey and finally in New Jersey,
polls suggests that Democratic mayoral nominee or In Mandami is
on his way to becoming the mayor of New York City.
But if you're Andrew Cuomo, you were perhaps somewhat heartened
over the weekend when one poll showed that Cuomo appears
(17:46):
to be closing the gap with Mandami. That poll, coming
from Atlas Intel, shows that Mandami is leading Cuomo forty
point six percent thirty four percent, just ahead of election day.
And we'll set see what effect, if any, the President's
endorsement of Andrew Cuoma may have ultimately on the results
(18:07):
coming in the mayoral race. As for Tuesday, the President
has no public events scheduled. There is a briefing, however,
that will be conducted by White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt.
That will happen at one o'clock Eastern time in the afternoon.
As for Wednesday, I'll be in the Supreme Court. That's
for oral arguments, which will determine whether the president's tariffs
(18:29):
that he's imposed upon everyone of America's trading partners were legal.
Such an important case for the President and for his
economic policies going forward. That's it for the White House
briefing room for Tuesday, November fourth. I'm John Decker. Have
a good one.
Welcome to the White House Briefing Room for Tuesday, November fourth.
I'm John Decker.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It's day thirty five of the federal government shutdown and
no movement on ending the impactse Senate Majority Leader John
Thune on the Senate floor blame Democrats for the shutdown.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It's been five weeks since Democrats shut down the government,
and once again we start this week by asking is
this the week the Democrats end their shutdown?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Also on the Senate floor, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,
who reiterated the Democrats' demands for ending the prolonged shutdown.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Democrats have been very clear from the start. We need
to lower people's healthcare costs. We need to reopen the government.
We need to extend the ACA premium credits. That is
what a majority of Americans.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's also election day in New Jersey, Virginia, and in
New York City and the President makes a surprise endorsement.
But we begin this Tuesday with the government shutdown and
some relief for the forty two million Americans that rely
on federal food assistants. The Trump administration said Monday that
(01:16):
it will use emergency funds to pay partial benefits under
the federal food assistance program known as SNAP for November,
but it warned that the process could still result in
delays in some states. A US federal judge, John McConnell
in Rhode Island, had directed the administration to detail how
(01:39):
it would comply with his order from Friday that requires
the government to use emergency funds to keep the SNAP program,
the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program during the federal government shutdown.
The judge gave the government two options, use billions of
dollars in contingency funding to make only partial payments, or
(02:01):
find other sources of funding to supplement that and pay
the full amount. In a filing on Monday, the government
said there was about four point sixty five billion dollar
in emergency funding to cover roughly fifty percent of monthly
payments for eligible households. SNAP benefits typically total about eight
(02:21):
billion dollars a month for approximately forty two million people.
It does not plan to tap other funds to pay
the full amount now. SNAP that's a program formerly known
as food stamps, helps millions of poor and disabled people
buy food. One in eight Americans relies on SNAP. The
(02:43):
federal government initially set ahead of the shutdown, which began
on October first, that it would keep paying SNAP benefits
using emergency funding. But on October tenth, the USDA Warren
state agencies who administer SNAP that it's the shutdown continued
it would not have enough funding to send full benefits
(03:05):
to people. In November, President Trump had no public events
on Monday, so we didn't see or hear from the President.
But we did see and hear from the leaders in
the Senate, the top Republican and the top Democrat. They
each took to the Senate floor and what they spoke
about was the federal government shutdown. When John Thune took
(03:28):
to the floor, he's the leader for Republicans, he said
that no party is benefiting from the ongoing shutdown.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
There are no winners in a government shutdown. There are
no winners, but there are plenty of losers. Chief among
them is the American people.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Thune has certainly faced pressure, nothing like those families that
depend on the federal government, and he listed the victims
of the government shutdown on the Senate floor.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Military families have turned to food banks and significant numbers
and they're not the only ones. Food banks in this
area and around the country have seen an influx of
federal workers who are missing paychecks due to the shutdown,
and things are set to get much worse with Snap
running on limited emergency funds and its future uncertain.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Thune believes that this week is a critical week for
the possibility of getting a deal to pass that continuing
resolution to fund the government and to reopen the government.
He spilled out the consequences so far of the thirty
five day federal government shutdown.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Banks to Democrats, millions more Americans, millions, mister President are
now at risk of going hungry, and you have the
Democrats shut down marches on.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And as Thune pointed out on that speech on the
Senate floor, there are many victims associated with the government
being shut down thanks to Democrats.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Head Start programs are beginning to close. Housing assistance programs
are at risk. Seniors and people in rural areas can't
access telehealth services. National Guard training is on hold, Veterans
programs are on pause. I'm sorry to say, I could
(05:24):
go on. Actually I could go on for a while.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Republicans often point to the fact that, as it relates
to all the votes on these continuing resolutions, there have
been three senators who caucus with Democrats who have consistently
voted with Republicans to reopen the federal government, and Thune
on the Senate floor said, not all Democrats are indeed
(05:50):
against reopening the federal government.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
The vast majority of Democrats in this body, we're perfectly
willing to prolong the shutdown in the American people's pain.
The vast majority of Democrats voted once again against a
clean continuing resolution, the only bill on offer that could
(06:17):
end all this suffering literally in a matter of our.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
The Senate has taken votes on fourteen separate occasions on
that clean continuing resolution that would reopen the federal government,
and fourteen times that CR has been defeated. Republicans, of course,
have a fifty three to forty seven advantage in the
US Senate, but to move this legislation procedurally, you need
(06:44):
sixty votes, and they are still five votes short. John
Thune on the Senate floor, explain what this clean R
would actually do.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
It would pay our troops, fun snap headstart veterans programs,
pay our staffers. Three Democrat senators already support that clean
continued resolutions to President, and the Democrat from Maine who
supported the clean CR, and the House said, and I quote,
(07:17):
there's a lot of important work to be done in Congress,
none of which will be any easier if manors are
suffering the harms of a government shut down end quote.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Republicans have over the course of the past month tried
to put pressure on Democrats to pass that continuing resolution,
that stop gap funding bill. And in addition to putting
on pressure coming from members of Congress, Democratic allies are
also trying to put pressure on Democrats to reopen the
(07:49):
federal government. And John Thune pointed that out.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
The Teamster's Union in the American Federation of Government Employees
more traditionally allies of Democrats to be frank have called
for Congress to spare the American people further pain and
to pass the can clean continuing resolution. And they're far
from the only ones.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
As soon pointed out, the CR is just that it's
a clean continuing resolution. There's nothing extraneous contained in that legislation.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
It's a very straightforward proposition. It's a twenty four page
bill sitting right here at the Senate desk. Not a
single new Republican policy, no partisan policy writers, nothing that
Democrats haven't supported. Before on numerous occasions, it just reopens
(08:48):
the government.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
For Democrats, the reason for their reluctance to support this
CR is because they want to put pressure on Republicans
to do something about aspiring subsidies for the Affordable Care Act.
As a result of those subsidies expiring, premiums for those
that get their insurance through the Affordable Care Act have skyrocketed,
(09:12):
and those Democrats say they will not vote for a
CR unless there's a commitment put in writing to do
something to extend those expiring Obamacare subsidies, and John Thune
on the Senate floor address that critical issue.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
As I've said more times than I can count, Republicans
are more than willing to have a healthcare discussion with Democrats.
In fact, had Democrats voted to reopen the government last week,
President Trump would be meeting with them this week. Unlike
Democrats who want to continue papering over the unaffordability of
(09:50):
Obamacare forevermore Republicans have ideas for actually lowering health care costs,
blowing costs not just for Americans on Obamacare, but also
for seniors, vulnerable Americans, and the majority of Americans who
get their healthcare through their employers.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
After John Thunne, the Senate Leader, made remarks that lasted
approximately eight minutes on the Senate floor, his counterpart Democratic
Leader Minority Leader Chuck Schumer from New York, also spoke
on the Senate floor, and Schumer immediately criticized the decision
by the Trump administration to only partially fund SNAP.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Providing partial benefits is not enough, is not compliant with
the law, and it's particularly cruel of Trump. With the
Thanksgiving season around the corner.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
This is a critical issue for Democrats and they see
an opening to try to force Republicans to come to
the negotiating table and make a compromise. Schumer said that
President Trump could provide this SNAP fund if he wanted.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
A few hours ago, the administration announced that it will
provide only partial SNAP benefits to forty two million Americans
facing food insecurity, even though the courts affirm that the
USDA has the transfer authority to ensure everyone can receive
full benefits. Everyone can get full benefits. The only person
(11:21):
standing in the way is Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Donald Trump both sides, Republicans and Democrats have dug in
their heels over the past five weeks, and Schumer sat
on the Senate floor that the shutdown is the fault
one hundred percent of President Donald Trump. Let's listen to
Chuck Schumer right here.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
And when Donald Trump was asked what he's doing to
end the shutdown, he said his usual nonsense, it's the
other side's fault, utterly ridiculous. Donald Trump is the president.
People look to him to negotiate to fix problems.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So White House putting out a statement a little bit
later in the afternoon. They wrote in that statement, with
essential workers like air traffic controllers and TSA agents being
forced to labor without paychecks, this past weekend saw the
worst weekend for staff since the Democrats shutdown began, and
(12:17):
they write in this statement, it's only going to get worse.
So that's the message now coming from Republicans. This, I said,
is a critical week for both parties to try to
find some compromise. The President now back in Washington, d C.
After his week long trip to Asia, and in fact,
later in the afternoon, John Thunne expressed some optimism that
(12:41):
there could be some resolution to this ongoing government shutdown.
Tuesday is also election day in many places across the country,
and on Monday, President Trump urged New York City voters
to back former New York Governor Andrew Cromo in the
race for New York's mayor. He officially threw his support
(13:03):
behind his one time rival, as Cuomo trails Zora Mandami,
a Democratic Socialist, in the polls. The President, of course,
is a native New Yorker, and he warned against supporting
Republican candidate Curtis Leiwa. He reasons that a vote for
Sliwa actually amounts to a vote for mam Dami, and
(13:25):
the President reiterated his threat to withhold federal funds from
New York City if Mamdami is victorious. The President put
out a post on Truth social He wrote, if communist
candidate Zora Mamdami wins the election for mayor of New
York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be
contributing federal funds other than the very minimum as required
(13:50):
to my beloved first home, because of the fact that
as a communist, this once great city has zero chance
of success or even sir, He went on to write,
it only can get worse with the Communist at the helm,
and I don't want to send as president good money
after bad. It is my obligation, the President wrote, to
(14:12):
run the nation, and it is my strong conviction that
New York City will be a complete and total economic
and social disaster should Mamdami win. His principles have been
tested for over a thousand years, and never once have
they been successful. The President wrote, I would much rather
see a Democrat who has had a record of success
(14:34):
win than a communist with no experience and a record
of complete and total failure. He was nothing as an assemblyman,
ranked at the bottom of the class, and as mayor
of potentially again the greatest city in the world, he
has no chance to bring it back to its former glory.
And the President concluded his social media post by writing,
(14:57):
we must also remember that a vote for Curtis Sliwa
is a vote for mam Dami. Whether you personally like
Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You
must vote for him and hope he does a fantastic job.
He is capable of it. Mam Dami is not.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
The vote in New York City is not the only
election that Democrats and Republicans are paying close attention to.
Democrats are favored to win back the Virginia governor's Mansion
and hold on to the New Jersey governorship. But even
if Democrats win in both of those states, they will
still wake up on Wednesday with a number of headaches.
(15:37):
And that's because they will have confusing messages possibly about
what the party, the Democratic Party stands for. Do they
need to be more moderate or more progressive if they
want to win in next year's midterm elections. Polling, of course,
has a mixed record in recent election cycles, but it
(15:58):
is important to look at pole to give a sense
about where each of these races are headed. And here's
what the polling tells us about those three major races
heading into Tuesday's election. In Virginia. Throughout the gubernatorial campaign,
former Congresswoman Abigail Spamberger she's a Democrat. She's maintained a
(16:19):
solid lead over Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earl Sears, the standard
bearer for Republicans. The latest poll coming from Emerson College
and The Hill, which was released on Saturday, showed Spamberger
leading Earl Sears fifty five to forty four percent, and
(16:39):
Spamberger in this latest poll actually increased her standing by
three points compared with the last time this poll was taken.
As for New Jersey, Mikey Cheryl, she's a former congresswoman
who's a Democrat. She is leading her Republican opponent, Jack Ciarelli,
but that race, according to polling, is close enough that
(17:02):
Democrats are very concerned about the possible outcome. An average
of polling shows that Cheryl is leading the Republican standard bearer,
Jack Ciarelli, fifty point one percent to forty five point
five percent. And it's important to remember that this gubernatorial
race is coming just a year after President Trump made
(17:25):
notable gains in New Jersey and finally in New Jersey,
polls suggests that Democratic mayoral nominee or In Mandami is
on his way to becoming the mayor of New York City.
But if you're Andrew Cuomo, you were perhaps somewhat heartened
over the weekend when one poll showed that Cuomo appears
(17:46):
to be closing the gap with Mandami. That poll, coming
from Atlas Intel, shows that Mandami is leading Cuomo forty
point six percent thirty four percent, just ahead of election day.
And we'll set see what effect, if any, the President's
endorsement of Andrew Cuoma may have ultimately on the results
(18:07):
coming in the mayoral race. As for Tuesday, the President
has no public events scheduled. There is a briefing, however,
that will be conducted by White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt.
That will happen at one o'clock Eastern time in the afternoon.
As for Wednesday, I'll be in the Supreme Court. That's
for oral arguments, which will determine whether the president's tariffs
(18:29):
that he's imposed upon everyone of America's trading partners were legal.
Such an important case for the President and for his
economic policies going forward. That's it for the White House
briefing room for Tuesday, November fourth. I'm John Decker. Have
a good one.
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