Tracking National Election Results

Fox News Radio's Tonya J. Powers joins us to discuss election results from across the country. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's go to the national election scene and what may
be some big changes moving forward. Tanya J. Powers with
Fox News Radio. Listen up, here's Gavin Newsom from California.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
He can de facto and Donald Trump's presidency as we
know it the minute Speaker Jeffries gets sworn in as
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
That is in reference to Prop fifty in California redistricting.
Tanya J. Powers, where would you like to start on
the national scene?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
How's that pick up state? Any state?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
California? So let's start with with Prop fifty and what
the overarching effect may be moving forward and what kind
of timeline are we talking about.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Okay, yeah, I'm going to try and get all of
this in in five minutes. It's going to be. It's
going to be. It's going to be a run. So
what As you mentioned. Prop fifty, known as the Election
Reading Response Act, did pass in California. The voters cast
ballots in favor of redrawing those congressional maps. It was

(01:07):
a response to mid decade redistricting that we've seen in
other states like Texas. It allows the state to use
a new map that's approved by the legislature for the
next well from twenty twenty six through twenty thirty for
the elections in those years, instead of the one that
was done by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission. That's an
independent commission that they had put it in the hands

(01:29):
of this time they have said, okay, since these other
states are you know, redrawing their maps mid decade instead
of when the census comes out, that it didn't leave
them any choice, as you know, Governor Newsom has said.
The voters, by the way, according to our Fox News
voter poll which ran through yesterday, so they got people

(01:52):
in you know, like the day's running up to the
election and the election day. Voters who backed that redrawing
overwhelmingly said they did so to counteract those changes that
were made by Republicans in other states. Not because if
they think it's the best way to draw the congressional districts,
but this was an answer to the GOP moves in
other states. Most of those voters said that they think

(02:14):
a non partisan commission like they one they have should
draw the districts as opposed to the party in power. Again,
kind of ironic because the commissioned is exactly what was
preempted by the vote yesterday that they you know, went
with the you know, the sentiment that Newsom had said,
which was, this is what we have to do in
response to the Republicans.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
What does the mayor of New York City have to
do with the rest of the world. Talk to us
a little bit about what's right around your corner, corner
your polling precincts.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
This race got more attention across the United States. I mean,
there were so many people who had opinions about about
a mayor's race of the city they don't live in,
which just fascinates me. The contest here drove the biggest
turnout in a mayoral race in New York City for

(03:06):
in more than fifty years. We haven't seen the more
than two million New Yorker's cast ballots. We have not
seen that kind of turnout for a mayoral race since
nineteen sixty nine. We looked at the Fox News voter
polls has surveyed more than forty seven hundred registered voters
here in New York City and Mom Donnie Zora Mamdani,

(03:26):
the Democratic Socialist who won the mayor's race yesterday, will
be one of the New York's youngest mayors. What our
poll found was that three quarters of the voters under
age thirty voted for him. Older voters went for former
Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was running as an independent, after
Mom Donni beat him in the Democratic primary. One of
the other things I found interesting about the information and

(03:48):
we found from our polling voter excitement for Mom Donnie.
You know, you can either vote for somebody because you
want to support them, or you can vote for somebody
because you want to vote against somebody else. Right, the
voter excitement for Mom Donnie. Most of his supporters that
we talked to said their vote was for him rather
than against his opponents interest, which I thought was kind
of telling.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, and Curtis Leewa is back to busking in the
subway or something like that. I'm afraid we're out of time.
And J Powers with Fox News Radio in New York City,
thanks for your time this morning.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Sure, thank you.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
You are welcome. By the way, Democratic governors in New
Jersey and Virginia to add to the mix,