One question that hangs over the entire MAGA period that we're in is whether the usual checks on power in our democracy will still hold. We hear about the Medicaid cuts backfiring on Republicans in the next election, but that means there will be a free and fair election, which is not a guarantee nowadays. We have a president who pardoned people, who staged an insurrection to overthrow an election, attacking police, and who fermented it, and who pushed false voter fraud claims.One of the lines against that t ...

A moment like this is made for Steve Cornaki and he's joining me now, our national political correspondent. And Steve, what are the big takeaways now that you've crunched all the numbers and we get a sense of that ranked order uh that voters were able to express their opinions. Yeah, I mean K an interesting and unusual primary in a couple ways.First of all, the methodology, like you say, using the rank choice system. Not many places do that. Let's just show you first how that played out.These were the preli ...

All right, we got the final results today. New York City primary, a Democratic primary for mayor. These were the initial numbers.Remember last week they ran that ranked choice tabulation, the second preference votes for all the also ran candidates. This is what it ends up looking like. Manny 56, Cuomo 44, uh 12point margin.Look, in the grand scheme of things, that's a massive upset. Nobody thought Cuomo at the start of this year was going to be in much trouble in this primary, let alone to Mom Donnie who wa ...

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