A Great Win for America!

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Americans from several states and localities went to the polls yesterday to vote in an off-year election, the first official measure of how the public is feeling about the direction the country and the economy are heading since Trump began his current term in the White House.  The results were not ambiguous.  Democratic candidates and proposals won across the board, coast-to-coast, and Trump lost bigly - everywhere!   Last night was not a good one for autocratic grifters who long to be interior decorators.

Democrats elected the first female governor of Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, with the largest victory margin in any Virginia governor's race since 1961.  In fact, every state office in Virginia that was on the ballot yesterday was won by the Democratic candidate.   New Jersey, where Trump has one of his favorite golf courses, also elected a Democratic female governor by a wide margin,  

Pennsylvania elected three justices to its state supreme court, all Democrats, ensuring that Democrats will control that court until at least 2029, and California passed a ballot measure that will let the state legislature redraw congressional districts before next year's general election - and could conceivably send five more Democrats to Congress to balance out the five new Republicans that Texas may send to Congress with its new maps.  The win in California was so big that results were announced almost immediately after the polls closed.

But the Big Kahuna of yesterday's races, the one where Donald Trump placed most of his political capital, was the race for mayor on New York City.  Trump, a native New Yorker who spent much of his adult life living in a penthouse atop the Manhattan skyline, was active for the past several months trying to derail Zohran Mamdani, a New York assemblyman who defeated former New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, this past June to take the Democratic nomination for mayor.  Mamdani, a self-described Democratic Socialist, was constantly derided by Trump as being a "communist."  Mamdani campaigned on making life more affordable for people living in the Big Apple, and he proposed paying for his programs by taxing the rich, something that was an anathema to Trump and his billionaire buddies.

During the New York City campaign Trump did more than just name-call, his fallback position, he also threatened to deport Zohran Mamdani, a naturalized American citizen, if he was elected, and to stop or sharply limit federal funds to the city.  But yesterday the people of News York City, Trump's former hometown, give their ex-neighbor the big middle finger and elected the visionary 34-year-old Democrat as mayor of New York City despite all of the bluster, name-calling, and threats blowing from the President of the United States.

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, won the race with 50.4% of the vote.  He defeated Andrew Cuomo (again!) who ran as an independent and took in 41.6%, and Curtis Silwa, the Republican, who  drew only 7.1 percent.  Days before the race Cuomo, the Independent, was endorsed by Florida man Donald Trump, South African billionaire Elon Musk, and. presidential aide Stephen Miller who lives in military housing in the Washington, DC, area - all to no avail.   In fact, those three Joe Bobs are so unpopular in New York City, that Mamdani used their endorsements of Cuomo to bolster his own campaign.

Trump also told journalist Norah O'Donnell in his highly-edited "60 Minutes" interview last weekend that he thinks he is a "much better looking person" than Mamdani.  Looks are very important to 79-year-old Trump!  They fuel some of his greatest delusions.

That's it.  I'm done.  The election is over.  America won and Trump lost.   Now he can go sit on the throne in his new marble bathroom and try to figure out why his subjects get so worked up over the price of groceries and the cost of living.  He's given them tariffs, what else could they possibly want, or need?