November 4, 2025 • 17 mins
BEST OF - National Correspondent Rory O’Neill previews Election Day and explains why Democrats are increasingly frustrated with their party. White House Correspondent Jon Decker reflects on covering the late Vice President Dick Cheney. Plus, the latest on the government shutdown and plans to partially fund SNAP benefits.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So it's election day across the country.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We've got a big one here in Florida, a couple
of different elections across the state. But I think the
most notable one, the most interesting one, is the race
for mayor in Miami. Earlier in the show, in the
six o'clock hour, we talked to Jesse Schachner from Florida Politics.
We took a look at the top six candidates in
that race, because it's like thirteen overall. Most of them
don't have a chance, but there are about six who
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could end up being part of what I think is
inevitably going to be a runoff. I don't think anybody
comes out with enough votes to just win it out
right today. But we're going to have that discussion on
the podcast for you, So if you missed it, definitely
check that out. You get a nice little preview, and
then of course we'll have the results full coverage of
that tomorrow morning on the show. But you can find
(00:43):
the podcast in just a bit search for Ryan Gorman
Show on your iHeartRadio app or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Going around to some of the other big races to
keep an eye on in Virginia, you've got the race
for governor, Democrat Abigail Spanberger going up against Republican Winsome
Earl years. Spamberger is going to win that one pretty easily.
(01:03):
I don't think it's going to be a very close race.
The closer race in that state will be the race
for attorney general. That's where you have Republican Jason Miarez
going up against Democrat Jay Jones. He's the one who
had to deal with that text message scandal. He wrote
about this just outrageous and violent hypothetical scenario involving the
state's House speaker, Todd Gilbert. One line suggested Gilbert gets
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two bullets to the head. Another mentioned how he hoped
Gilbert's children would die in their mother's arms to feel
pain personally, I mean, somebody who's putting text messages out
like that, you've just got to have questions not only
about their judgment, but about like their mental state.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yes, it's totally crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, who even thinks stuff like that, let alone put
it in a text message?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, somebody who's pretty sick.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yet, Democrats have not abandoned Jay Jones, and that's pretty
much a toss up.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
That race could go either way.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
In New jer you've got Democrat Mikey Cheryl going up
against Republican Jack Cheaterarelly. They're looking to replace term limited
Governor Phil Murphy. It's another pretty close race. If I
had to put money on it, I would bet on
Mikey Cheryl pulling it out. But I don't think it's
a sure thing. And look, it's not like a Republican
hasn't been governor in New Jersey before. I mean, we
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had Chris Christy not long ago, so it wouldn't be
totally crazy to see.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Jack Chearelli win that one.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But again, if I had to put money on it,
I would say Mikey Cheryl pulls it out. In California,
it might be the most consequential vote of the day.
Voters are going to decide on Proposition fifty that would
let lawmakers redraw the state's congressional map before the midterms
in twenty twenty six. To move, they could hand Democrats
several new US House seats, maybe as many as five,
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offsetting some of the moves that we've seen from Republicans
in other states, including in Texas. It's also been a
big initiative of California Governor Gavin Newsom. So you could
either have Democrats with a chance to pick up some
House seats and offset those gains by Republicans, or you
could have a big failure on the part of Gavin Newsom,
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which could damage his ambitions to run for president in
twenty twenty eight. And then you've got the race that
is getting the most attention in New York City, the
race for mayor. Democrat zo Run Mamdani, former Governor Andrew Cuomo,
and Republican Curtis Liwa all competing to succeed Mayor Eric Adams,
who not long ago came out and publicly backed Andrew Cuomo.
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You also had President Trump endorsing Andrew Cuomo. That that
tells you how bad yeah, Mumdani is for Trump to
do that. Elon Musk endorsed Andrew Cuomo. I would say
Mamdani definitely the favorite. Some recent polls have shown the
race tightening quite a bit in the home stretch. I
do pay attention to that. You never take one poll
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and say, oh, man, this is the new storyline. But
when you see a trend line, especially in the days
leading up to an election, it's kind of like what
we saw back in twenty sixteen with Trump and the
presidential election. Hillary Clinton was the favorite the whole way through,
but then in those days right before election day, there
was a tightening there and that momentum carried Trump to
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a win. Not sure Cuomo can get there. He was
starting from pretty far behind. Plus you've got Republican Curtis Sliwa.
He's pulling away some votes that probably would go to
Cuomo if he wasn't in the race. But I wouldn't
say it's a sure thing that Mamdonnie wins that one.
Of course, we're going to have a recap of all
of that for you tomorrow morning, right here on the show. Now,
(04:37):
let's bring in our national correspondent, Rory O'Neil, who supports
brought to you by Mark Spain real Estate. So, Rory,
it's election day across the country, including here in Florida
with the race for mayor in Miami and some other
races as well.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
But let's talk about some of the national ones.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You've got a key race for governor in Virginia, although
it feels like Democrat Abigail Spamberg are probably going to
win that one pretty easily. You've got the closer race
for governor in New Jersey, you've got Mikey Sheryl and
Republican Jack Chidarelli. They're looking to replace term limited Governor
Phil Murphy. And then you've got the race in New
York City, the one that will probably get the most
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attention throughout the day. Which ones have you been spending
some time with.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I'm much more focused on the California race that you
didn't mention.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But tactically very important too. Yeah, you're right, but.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, well, because I'm interested in that one because of turnout,
who shows up to vote for one thing? You know,
that's also a real challenge. It may not necessary. So
that's why the vote doesn't necessarily reflect the public opinion,
because it's these elections are decided by the people who
actually show up.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, And that one thing real quick as Proposition fifty,
which would let lawmakers in California redraw the state's congressional
map before the midterms, and it couldnet Democrats as many
as five seats to offset some of the changes in
rational maps that we've seen in places like Texas and
other states.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Right, And that is sort of Governor Newsom's pet project
there in California, and it also then shows well, how
does he do managing on what could be almost.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
A national campaign.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
So you know, if Newsom were to come up short
in this effort in California and lose this thing, then
it may have a negative reflection on his own presidential ambitions.
If he can't get California Democrats to show up, what
could he possibly do to try to get Democrats in
a nationwide race? Is going to be the criticism. So
I think that's going to be something interesting to watch.
(06:34):
I also think though, that come tomorrow morning, there's going
to be way too much read into these results about
it's a reflection of President Trump and the GOP and
the show I because look, if you're a New York
City voter, you've got three names on there, and you
know that's what you're stuck with. It's not necessarily I'm
gonna it's about Donald Trump. You're like, look, all I
can do is choose between these three, and a lot
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of people are not happy with any of those choices.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You know, as much as it pays me to say this,
I think you're right, California that is maybe the most
important of all of these, even though you know the
race for mayor New York City is getting the most
attention because you could have a situation where Democrats can
really take a leap forward and offsetting the congressional district
realignment that the Republicans have been working on. Or you
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could have a situation where not only does that not
happen and that would be a big blow to Democrats
for the midterms, but it could also take down a
potential twenty twenty eight candidate for the presidency. So the
consequences are much bigger in California than any of these
other races. Now, the New York City one, I think
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is important because going into the midterms, you've got this
battle over you know what the Democratic Party stands for,
and certainly if zo Run Mamdani becomes the leader of
the largest city in the country, that makes him one
of the main faces of the party, well.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Right, And is that the direction?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
The future direction is that the Mom Donnie's, the AOC's,
the Bernie Sanders, is that what's going to be taking
over the Democratic Party much the same way the MAGA
movement took over the Republican Party.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
It would be a very for the Democrats. It's very
different from FDR and JFK.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
As for the Republicans, Trump is very different from Reagan,
so it's a you know, it's the future of these
parties with the fundamental question though, of where do Americans feel,
for the most part, do they want to go down
either one of these far left or right paths.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
The races for governor, again, I think Abigail Spamberger is
going to win pretty easily in Virginia. In New Jersey,
if I had to put money on it, I would
say Mikey Cheryl pulls that out the Democrat in the race.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I don't think it's a sure thing.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But even if Jack Chidarelli won, it's not like New
Jersey hasn't recently had a Republican governor, So I just
I don't know how much that really tells us. In
the race for mayor in New York, the polls that
you've seen, it does look like between Cuomo and Mamdani
things have tightened a bit. What's hard to tell sometimes
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is whether or not that trend line, which I do
think is real, is that something that's really going to
carry over into election day, or was Cuomo so far
back that it's just hard to make up all that ground.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well, especially with Canada's dropping out and they narrowing a
Trump endorsement coming late in the game, and you know,
we're still waiting for that Chuck Schumer endorsement.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I'm not sure what difference it would make. But and
then again, it's a.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Question of turnout who actually shows up for a lot
of these because the vast majority of New Yorkers will
actually be staying home and not taking part. So does
this really reflective big left turn for New York City
politics when just a small fraction are actually taking part
in the election?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And then there was a study I saw that had
like nine percent of New Yorkers looking to get the
hell out off Mum Donna.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, I saw too that a lot of people are
going to leave.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I think I think it's it's mostly going to be
people who have the money to do something like that,
who have a lot of money on the line if
he starts enacting a bunch of his policies. Because you're
average New York I don't think they have the means
necessarily just pack up and leave because you know there's
a new mayor who they don't like. It's just not
that easy. We're joined by our National correspondent Rory O'Neil.
(10:16):
The other thing I want to talk about while we're
talking politics, and we mentioned this on the show yesterday,
this new survey showing how frustrated Democrats have grown with
their party.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Right about the Democrats just are not in favor or
Democratic right confile, just not happy with the way their
party is being led. Sixty seven percent of Democrats said
they're frustrated by their party. Forty percent of Republicans say
the same. But it's interesting those numbers have essentially flipped
on both sides depending on whether or not they're in
or out of power in Washington.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
So it's sort of expected to see this, But.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Again, are they really feeling you know, they're just not
really drawn to Chuck Schumer and haking Jeffries essentially and
the messaging they're putting out there, just to note, this
was done before the shutdown, and you know, whether or
not they see this as this shutdown is standing up
to Trump or not, the polling suggests everyone is just
pretty much fed up with DC.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Well, one of the keynotes in that study is that
Democrats didn't think congressional Democrats were doing enough to push
back against Trump in his agenda, and that's why I
think we've seen in some more recent polling numbers have
gone up for Democrats in leadership positions a bit because
you know, again they shut down the government and that's
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what the base wanted to see. Something like that. But
definitely a problem for Democrats, although you don't want to
overstate it. Like you mentioned, you know, when the party's
out of power, typically you see things like this, more
frustration among the base. Rory O'Neil our national correspondent with
us this morning. Rory, thanks so much. Thanks Ryan, let's
go back to the highline and bring in our White
(11:55):
House correspondent John Decker. Now, John, it's great to talk
to you this morning, especially with the breaking news former
Vice President Dick Cheney did at the age of eighty four.
And I'm assuming during your long and illustrious career in
DC you spent.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Quite a bit of time reporting on Dick Cheney. Oh.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Absolutely, when you factor in the eight years that Dick
Cheney served as Vice President. I've covered the White House,
as you know, for thirty years, so that sort of
fell under that umbrella. And then, of course, you know
Dick Cheney his career in Republican politics went back quite
some ways. At the age of thirty four, he was
named the youngest chief of staff to US president in
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American history, just thirty four years old at at the
time when Gerald Ford named him his chief of staff,
he went back to Wyoming, served as a US congressman
representing that state, served as Defense Secretary to George H. W.
Bush during the Persian Gulf War, and then of course
serving as Vice President behind the scenes providing advice and
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counsel to George W. Bush, particularly after nine to eleven.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Let me go back to his time as White House
chief of staff because honestly, you know, there's a lot
to unpack when you look at Dick Cheney's career, but
that's incredible to me to be chief of staff at
thirty four years old.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Just give us a sense.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I mean, you're there at the White House of the
responsibility that that position holds.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
It's an awesome responsibility. You are responsible for everything that
the President sees. You're involved in every meeting with the
president domestic policy, foreign policy, and you're in addition to that,
the person that is the personnel person at the White House,
the person that hires individuals that serve the president and
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advise the president on a daily basis. It's an awesome
responsibility and think about that all and trusted to a
thirty four year old at the time he was named
to that position. And look, you know, his career was long,
and you know, he was very proud of serving his country,
and he liked the fact that he never sought the limelight.
He never thought the limelight, never even considered running for president.
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Think about that. That is rare in Washington these days
to have someone who didn't have that kind of ambition.
Was pretty comfortable just providing the advice and council on
policy behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
But after doing that search for George W. Bush's potential
vice president, he did determine that well, he was the
best one for the job.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Yeah, that's pretty brilliant, right. He leads the vice presidential
search for George W. Bush in the two thousand presidential election,
and after he conducts the search, he says to George W. Bush,
I've done the search, and I think the best person
is me. I should surface your vice president. And he
convinced George W. Bush that that made a lot of sense,
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and they, of course ran in two thousand that election
in two thousand that was decided ultimately by the US
of Sreme Court, and after George W. Bush has sworn
in in January of two thousand and one, just nine
months later, is when nine to eleven occurred, and then
of course transformed George W.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Bush's presidency and turned Dick Cheney into perhaps the most
powerful vice president in history. Our White House correspondent John
Decker with us this morning. John, really appreciate.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
It, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Ryan.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
So as if today the government shutdown has hit thirty
five days now time for the longest shutdown ever with
the shutdown that took place during the first Trump administration.
Today the Senate said to take a fourteenth vote to
fund the government. That's going to fail, and that means
when Tryson tomorrow, this will become a record breaking shutdown.
Yesterday's big development, the Trump administration said it's going to
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partially restart snap payments after two judges ordered the funds
released last week. About forty two million Americans didn't get
their food assistance on November first. The new plan sends
out roughly half of the normal benefits. Us DA Secretary
Brook Rollins told the court the agency's complying and they'll
send about four point six billion in contingency funds that
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are now available. It would take nine billion dollars to
fully fund it for the month. Filing also warrant that
some technical hurdles could slow payments some states are their
systems are sold, it may take weeks or months to
push money out. And if that's the case, if you're
a state that has a system like that, what are
you doing to fix it? That would be my question,
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Why are there systems in place where it could take
weeks or months to push food assistance money out in
the case of an emergency like this. I haven't seen
any answers to that, but certainly a question that needs answering,
and there seems to be a little progress being made,
mainly behind the scenes, both sides looking for a way
to get out of this. I do think we're gonna
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hear more about that throughout the course of this week,
and then maybe a deal will come together next week.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
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So it's election day across the country.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We've got a big one here in Florida, a couple
of different elections across the state. But I think the
most notable one, the most interesting one, is the race
for mayor in Miami. Earlier in the show, in the
six o'clock hour, we talked to Jesse Schachner from Florida Politics.
We took a look at the top six candidates in
that race, because it's like thirteen overall. Most of them
don't have a chance, but there are about six who
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could end up being part of what I think is
inevitably going to be a runoff. I don't think anybody
comes out with enough votes to just win it out
right today. But we're going to have that discussion on
the podcast for you, So if you missed it, definitely
check that out. You get a nice little preview, and
then of course we'll have the results full coverage of
that tomorrow morning on the show. But you can find
(00:43):
the podcast in just a bit search for Ryan Gorman
Show on your iHeartRadio app or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Going around to some of the other big races to
keep an eye on in Virginia, you've got the race
for governor, Democrat Abigail Spanberger going up against Republican Winsome
Earl years. Spamberger is going to win that one pretty easily.
(01:03):
I don't think it's going to be a very close race.
The closer race in that state will be the race
for attorney general. That's where you have Republican Jason Miarez
going up against Democrat Jay Jones. He's the one who
had to deal with that text message scandal. He wrote
about this just outrageous and violent hypothetical scenario involving the
state's House speaker, Todd Gilbert. One line suggested Gilbert gets
(01:27):
two bullets to the head. Another mentioned how he hoped
Gilbert's children would die in their mother's arms to feel
pain personally, I mean, somebody who's putting text messages out
like that, you've just got to have questions not only
about their judgment, but about like their mental state.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yes, it's totally crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, who even thinks stuff like that, let alone put
it in a text message?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, somebody who's pretty sick.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yet, Democrats have not abandoned Jay Jones, and that's pretty
much a toss up.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
That race could go either way.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
In New jer you've got Democrat Mikey Cheryl going up
against Republican Jack Cheaterarelly. They're looking to replace term limited
Governor Phil Murphy. It's another pretty close race. If I
had to put money on it, I would bet on
Mikey Cheryl pulling it out. But I don't think it's
a sure thing. And look, it's not like a Republican
hasn't been governor in New Jersey before. I mean, we
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had Chris Christy not long ago, so it wouldn't be
totally crazy to see.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Jack Chearelli win that one.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But again, if I had to put money on it,
I would say Mikey Cheryl pulls it out. In California,
it might be the most consequential vote of the day.
Voters are going to decide on Proposition fifty that would
let lawmakers redraw the state's congressional map before the midterms
in twenty twenty six. To move, they could hand Democrats
several new US House seats, maybe as many as five,
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offsetting some of the moves that we've seen from Republicans
in other states, including in Texas. It's also been a
big initiative of California Governor Gavin Newsom. So you could
either have Democrats with a chance to pick up some
House seats and offset those gains by Republicans, or you
could have a big failure on the part of Gavin Newsom,
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which could damage his ambitions to run for president in
twenty twenty eight. And then you've got the race that
is getting the most attention in New York City, the
race for mayor. Democrat zo Run Mamdani, former Governor Andrew Cuomo,
and Republican Curtis Liwa all competing to succeed Mayor Eric Adams,
who not long ago came out and publicly backed Andrew Cuomo.
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You also had President Trump endorsing Andrew Cuomo. That that
tells you how bad yeah, Mumdani is for Trump to
do that. Elon Musk endorsed Andrew Cuomo. I would say
Mamdani definitely the favorite. Some recent polls have shown the
race tightening quite a bit in the home stretch. I
do pay attention to that. You never take one poll
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and say, oh, man, this is the new storyline. But
when you see a trend line, especially in the days
leading up to an election, it's kind of like what
we saw back in twenty sixteen with Trump and the
presidential election. Hillary Clinton was the favorite the whole way through,
but then in those days right before election day, there
was a tightening there and that momentum carried Trump to
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a win. Not sure Cuomo can get there. He was
starting from pretty far behind. Plus you've got Republican Curtis Sliwa.
He's pulling away some votes that probably would go to
Cuomo if he wasn't in the race. But I wouldn't
say it's a sure thing that Mamdonnie wins that one.
Of course, we're going to have a recap of all
of that for you tomorrow morning, right here on the show. Now,
(04:37):
let's bring in our national correspondent, Rory O'Neil, who supports
brought to you by Mark Spain real Estate. So, Rory,
it's election day across the country, including here in Florida
with the race for mayor in Miami and some other
races as well.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
But let's talk about some of the national ones.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You've got a key race for governor in Virginia, although
it feels like Democrat Abigail Spamberg are probably going to
win that one pretty easily. You've got the closer race
for governor in New Jersey, you've got Mikey Sheryl and
Republican Jack Chidarelli. They're looking to replace term limited Governor
Phil Murphy. And then you've got the race in New
York City, the one that will probably get the most
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attention throughout the day. Which ones have you been spending
some time with.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I'm much more focused on the California race that you
didn't mention.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But tactically very important too. Yeah, you're right, but.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, well, because I'm interested in that one because of turnout,
who shows up to vote for one thing? You know,
that's also a real challenge. It may not necessary. So
that's why the vote doesn't necessarily reflect the public opinion,
because it's these elections are decided by the people who
actually show up.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, And that one thing real quick as Proposition fifty,
which would let lawmakers in California redraw the state's congressional
map before the midterms, and it couldnet Democrats as many
as five seats to offset some of the changes in
rational maps that we've seen in places like Texas and
other states.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Right, And that is sort of Governor Newsom's pet project
there in California, and it also then shows well, how
does he do managing on what could be almost.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
A national campaign.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
So you know, if Newsom were to come up short
in this effort in California and lose this thing, then
it may have a negative reflection on his own presidential ambitions.
If he can't get California Democrats to show up, what
could he possibly do to try to get Democrats in
a nationwide race? Is going to be the criticism. So
I think that's going to be something interesting to watch.
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I also think though, that come tomorrow morning, there's going
to be way too much read into these results about
it's a reflection of President Trump and the GOP and
the show I because look, if you're a New York
City voter, you've got three names on there, and you
know that's what you're stuck with. It's not necessarily I'm
gonna it's about Donald Trump. You're like, look, all I
can do is choose between these three, and a lot
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of people are not happy with any of those choices.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You know, as much as it pays me to say this,
I think you're right, California that is maybe the most
important of all of these, even though you know the
race for mayor New York City is getting the most
attention because you could have a situation where Democrats can
really take a leap forward and offsetting the congressional district
realignment that the Republicans have been working on. Or you
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could have a situation where not only does that not
happen and that would be a big blow to Democrats
for the midterms, but it could also take down a
potential twenty twenty eight candidate for the presidency. So the
consequences are much bigger in California than any of these
other races. Now, the New York City one, I think
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is important because going into the midterms, you've got this
battle over you know what the Democratic Party stands for,
and certainly if zo Run Mamdani becomes the leader of
the largest city in the country, that makes him one
of the main faces of the party, well.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Right, And is that the direction?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
The future direction is that the Mom Donnie's, the AOC's,
the Bernie Sanders, is that what's going to be taking
over the Democratic Party much the same way the MAGA
movement took over the Republican Party.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
It would be a very for the Democrats. It's very
different from FDR and JFK.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
As for the Republicans, Trump is very different from Reagan,
so it's a you know, it's the future of these
parties with the fundamental question though, of where do Americans feel,
for the most part, do they want to go down
either one of these far left or right paths.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
The races for governor, again, I think Abigail Spamberger is
going to win pretty easily in Virginia. In New Jersey,
if I had to put money on it, I would
say Mikey Cheryl pulls that out the Democrat in the race.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I don't think it's a sure thing.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But even if Jack Chidarelli won, it's not like New
Jersey hasn't recently had a Republican governor, So I just
I don't know how much that really tells us. In
the race for mayor in New York, the polls that
you've seen, it does look like between Cuomo and Mamdani
things have tightened a bit. What's hard to tell sometimes
(09:06):
is whether or not that trend line, which I do
think is real, is that something that's really going to
carry over into election day, or was Cuomo so far
back that it's just hard to make up all that ground.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well, especially with Canada's dropping out and they narrowing a
Trump endorsement coming late in the game, and you know,
we're still waiting for that Chuck Schumer endorsement.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I'm not sure what difference it would make. But and
then again, it's a.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Question of turnout who actually shows up for a lot
of these because the vast majority of New Yorkers will
actually be staying home and not taking part. So does
this really reflective big left turn for New York City
politics when just a small fraction are actually taking part
in the election?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And then there was a study I saw that had
like nine percent of New Yorkers looking to get the
hell out off Mum Donna.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, I saw too that a lot of people are
going to leave.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I think I think it's it's mostly going to be
people who have the money to do something like that,
who have a lot of money on the line if
he starts enacting a bunch of his policies. Because you're
average New York I don't think they have the means
necessarily just pack up and leave because you know there's
a new mayor who they don't like. It's just not
that easy. We're joined by our National correspondent Rory O'Neil.
(10:16):
The other thing I want to talk about while we're
talking politics, and we mentioned this on the show yesterday,
this new survey showing how frustrated Democrats have grown with
their party.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Right about the Democrats just are not in favor or
Democratic right confile, just not happy with the way their
party is being led. Sixty seven percent of Democrats said
they're frustrated by their party. Forty percent of Republicans say
the same. But it's interesting those numbers have essentially flipped
on both sides depending on whether or not they're in
or out of power in Washington.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
So it's sort of expected to see this, But.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Again, are they really feeling you know, they're just not
really drawn to Chuck Schumer and haking Jeffries essentially and
the messaging they're putting out there, just to note, this
was done before the shutdown, and you know, whether or
not they see this as this shutdown is standing up
to Trump or not, the polling suggests everyone is just
pretty much fed up with DC.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Well, one of the keynotes in that study is that
Democrats didn't think congressional Democrats were doing enough to push
back against Trump in his agenda, and that's why I
think we've seen in some more recent polling numbers have
gone up for Democrats in leadership positions a bit because
you know, again they shut down the government and that's
(11:34):
what the base wanted to see. Something like that. But
definitely a problem for Democrats, although you don't want to
overstate it. Like you mentioned, you know, when the party's
out of power, typically you see things like this, more
frustration among the base. Rory O'Neil our national correspondent with
us this morning. Rory, thanks so much. Thanks Ryan, let's
go back to the highline and bring in our White
(11:55):
House correspondent John Decker. Now, John, it's great to talk
to you this morning, especially with the breaking news former
Vice President Dick Cheney did at the age of eighty four.
And I'm assuming during your long and illustrious career in
DC you spent.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Quite a bit of time reporting on Dick Cheney. Oh.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Absolutely, when you factor in the eight years that Dick
Cheney served as Vice President. I've covered the White House,
as you know, for thirty years, so that sort of
fell under that umbrella. And then, of course, you know
Dick Cheney his career in Republican politics went back quite
some ways. At the age of thirty four, he was
named the youngest chief of staff to US president in
(12:36):
American history, just thirty four years old at at the
time when Gerald Ford named him his chief of staff,
he went back to Wyoming, served as a US congressman
representing that state, served as Defense Secretary to George H. W.
Bush during the Persian Gulf War, and then of course
serving as Vice President behind the scenes providing advice and
(12:57):
counsel to George W. Bush, particularly after nine to eleven.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Let me go back to his time as White House
chief of staff because honestly, you know, there's a lot
to unpack when you look at Dick Cheney's career, but
that's incredible to me to be chief of staff at
thirty four years old.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Just give us a sense.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I mean, you're there at the White House of the
responsibility that that position holds.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
It's an awesome responsibility. You are responsible for everything that
the President sees. You're involved in every meeting with the
president domestic policy, foreign policy, and you're in addition to that,
the person that is the personnel person at the White House,
the person that hires individuals that serve the president and
(13:46):
advise the president on a daily basis. It's an awesome
responsibility and think about that all and trusted to a
thirty four year old at the time he was named
to that position. And look, you know, his career was long,
and you know, he was very proud of serving his country,
and he liked the fact that he never sought the limelight.
He never thought the limelight, never even considered running for president.
(14:09):
Think about that. That is rare in Washington these days
to have someone who didn't have that kind of ambition.
Was pretty comfortable just providing the advice and council on
policy behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
But after doing that search for George W. Bush's potential
vice president, he did determine that well, he was the
best one for the job.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Yeah, that's pretty brilliant, right. He leads the vice presidential
search for George W. Bush in the two thousand presidential election,
and after he conducts the search, he says to George W. Bush,
I've done the search, and I think the best person
is me. I should surface your vice president. And he
convinced George W. Bush that that made a lot of sense,
(14:52):
and they, of course ran in two thousand that election
in two thousand that was decided ultimately by the US
of Sreme Court, and after George W. Bush has sworn
in in January of two thousand and one, just nine
months later, is when nine to eleven occurred, and then
of course transformed George W.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Bush's presidency and turned Dick Cheney into perhaps the most
powerful vice president in history. Our White House correspondent John
Decker with us this morning. John, really appreciate.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
It, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Ryan.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
So as if today the government shutdown has hit thirty
five days now time for the longest shutdown ever with
the shutdown that took place during the first Trump administration.
Today the Senate said to take a fourteenth vote to
fund the government. That's going to fail, and that means
when Tryson tomorrow, this will become a record breaking shutdown.
Yesterday's big development, the Trump administration said it's going to
(15:45):
partially restart snap payments after two judges ordered the funds
released last week. About forty two million Americans didn't get
their food assistance on November first. The new plan sends
out roughly half of the normal benefits. Us DA Secretary
Brook Rollins told the court the agency's complying and they'll
send about four point six billion in contingency funds that
(16:06):
are now available. It would take nine billion dollars to
fully fund it for the month. Filing also warrant that
some technical hurdles could slow payments some states are their
systems are sold, it may take weeks or months to
push money out. And if that's the case, if you're
a state that has a system like that, what are
you doing to fix it? That would be my question,
(16:28):
Why are there systems in place where it could take
weeks or months to push food assistance money out in
the case of an emergency like this. I haven't seen
any answers to that, but certainly a question that needs answering,
and there seems to be a little progress being made,
mainly behind the scenes, both sides looking for a way
to get out of this. I do think we're gonna
(16:50):
hear more about that throughout the course of this week,
and then maybe a deal will come together next week.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
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