11 05 25 FOX News Tonya Powers on the Democrat victories in yesterday's election

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gina Gondek and David Kal on Colorado's Morning News covering
the latest in what we saw in the election last night.
Many celebrating when it comes to a number of Democratic
victories in New Jersey and Virginia and the gubernatorial races,
and a historic turnout that took place in the Big Apple.
Numbers showed that it was the biggest voter turnout in
New York City's mayoral race in fifty years. The City

(00:23):
Board of Election announced last night in their city that
over two million people voted. It was the first time
the city saw that number since nineteen sixty nine. A
large chunk of those came from residents who really took
advantage of their early voting that took place and will
continue to follow the latest in New York the biggest
voter turnout in fifty years.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Thank you to the next generation of New Yorkers who
refused to accept that the promise of a better future
was a relic.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Of the past.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
The city electing Democratic Socialist Zoran Mundani as its new mayor,
defeating Independent Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Leewah.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
And Democrats have dominated in a number of other key
elections throughout the country. Joining us now on the kaa
Common Spirit Health Hotline live from New York City. It's
Fox News Radios. Tanya Powers, Tanya, Jay Powers, Welcome, Tanya,
appreciate you being with us. What else do we know
about New York's new mayor and what reactions have you
been seeing overnight throughout the city.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, I can tell you that he made history. He
is the youngest leader of the city in decades. He
also becomes New York City's first Muslim mayor, the first
of South Asian heritage, and the first born in Africa.
He got a lot of support from younger voters. If
you look at our Fox News voter poll, which was

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a survey about forty seven hundred registered voters in the city.
That was that was done over the last week and
ended last night after the election day, so it did
encompass election day for this, and what it found was
that three quarters of voter under age thirty voted for
Mom Donnie, while older voters, namely seniors, wrote for Cuomo,

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former Governor Andrew Cuomo by double digits. The other thing
that I thought was pretty telling about this is that
voter excitement for Mom Donnie. Most of his supporters who
we polled said that their vote was for him rather
than against his opponents. Cuomo's supporters slightly more of them
said that their vote was against his opponents more so

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than for him, which I thought was kind of telling
as well as far as voter sentiment.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Goes, Tanya, when you look at some of those reasonings
of why they were voting for him, was their key
issues for the things that people got behind to support
in order to see him into this victory.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, I think a large part of that was the
affordability message that he ran on. I mean, he basically
ran on a message of We're going to make it
easier for you to live here and to afford to
live here. It's an extremely expensive city to live in.
As everybody knows. The folks who he aimed his message
at were, you know, everyday New Yorkers. That is one

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of the things he talked about in his in his
in his speech last night when he addressed his supporters
after he won, was you know, we're going to make
this affordable for everybody. This is this is everybody's city,
not just the people who might be able to afford,
you know, to comfortably live here. We're going to make
this easier for everybody. And that's pretty much the message
that he ran on for the last you know, for

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the last year especially, certainly.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Did appear to be a blue wave across the country
as well. We saw gubernatorial races won by Democrats in Virginia,
in New Jersey, we saw the redistricting victory for Gavin Newsom,
the governor of California. What about President Trump's reaction to
what looks to have been a big blue victory.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, there was there was some. I know there was some.
He had some true social posts last night. To be
honest with you, I was focused on the New York
City mayor's race last night, so I briefly saw some
of the of the posts that he made, but I
don't have those in front of me, so I can't
really give you of their verbatim. I know, he, you know,
had mentioned before the before the election yesterday, he had

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threatened to withhold funding federal funding from New York City
if Mom Donnie was elected. I'm not sure if he's
actually going to, you know, go through that or what
that would look like, but it didn't stop. You know,
Mom Donni's supporters. He did not seem to dampen the
excitement that they had to cast their vote because of
the you know, the numbers that we've seen, you know,

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coming out of the election last night. It didn't seem
to dampen that. As you mentioned, there were you know,
some other you know, Democrats who were elected. One of
those I was keeping a particular eye on in Virginia,
and I thought that one was pretty telling because of
the amount of federal workers who live in Virginia who
you know, don't have jobs anymore because their jobs were

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eliminated or if they had to take buyouts, or they
were furloughed or you know, whatever your because of the shutdown.
That affected a lot of those voters. And that is
one of the things that we saw with the election
of Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat who ran for governor there
against the Republican Winsome Earl Sears. Trump was a factor
in the race even though he was not on the ballot.

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According to our Fox News voter poll, close to six
and ten Virginia voters disapproved the job he's doing. Ninety
seven percent of those who strongly disapproved of Trump's job
performance went for Spanburger. Two thirds of her supporters said
that their vote was expressly to show opposition to the president.
You know, this was not just about liking the Democrat either.

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They the fifty four percent of those polled had a
favorable opinion of Spanburger, but more than half of those
same voters approve of the job that Glenn Youngkin is
doing as governor. Now he's a Republican, she's a Democrat.
So I thought that was pretty telling that overlap of voters,
you know, fifty three percent approve of his job performance
but also have a favorable opinion of Spamburger and elected her.

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So I thought that that was pretty interesting. Little side note.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
We'll continue following the latest coming up in our five
thirty newscast Live from New York. It's Fox's Tanya Ja Powers.
Appreciate your time. As always, our social media poll question
goes in line with the latest that Tanya was talking about.
There Democrats winning big and a number of key races
on election day. Were you surprised? You can engage with
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