Election Analysis - The election turnout is considered extraordinary, potentially the largest in 30 to 40 years [2] - A key message is the need for a government that represents working people and the middle class, addressing issues like housing, child care, transportation, and healthcare affordability [4] - Voters care about affordability, particularly the cost of housing [6] - The idea that everyone should be able to afford housing is not radical [7] Economic Commentary - The top earners in America have never had it so good, while 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck [5] - There is significant income and wealth inequality, with one person owning more wealth than the bottom 52% of American society [8] - Giving a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the 1% and throwing 15 million people off healthcare is considered a radical idea [8]

Joining us now, some of our politics reporter Dave Wagel, former press secretary to former House Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan, and MSNBC political analysts Brendan Buck, former Ohio State Senator and former national co-chair for Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign, Nina Turner, and Democratic strategist and MSNBC political analyst Cornell Belchure. He is serving, by the way, as a pollster for Andrew Cuomo's mayoral campaign. All right, Dave, if you're going to learn a lesson about talking to voter ...

I want to bring in Mark McKinnon, former adviser to George W. Bush and John McCain, who's probably very happy that he's not running campaigns like that anymore. He's also creator of the circus.With me in studio, Julie Rgginky, Democratic strategist, author of the Salty Politics newsletter on Substack. Okay, I'm not going to tell you which race to talk about, Julie. I am going to ask you if there's one you're going to be watching in particular that may give you the best sense of the mood in the country.So, i ...

Let's take these one by one, guys. Starting here in the big apple. Michael, one of the candidates for mayor here.Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo just cast his vote. What issues are driving voters to the polls. >> Yeah, Anna, like you said, we're here in Mintown Manhattan at a polling place where former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was just here casting his ballot in this race.Already roughly 735,000 voters in New York City have voted. That was the early voting data shattering the number of folks who ...

Joining me now is Zoron Mdani, the Democratic nominee running for mayor of New York City. Thanks for being here. >> It's a pleasure to be on. >> Uh it's great to have you. You've campaigned on affordability for a long time. Let's take a look. >> When we all fight together on this issue of housing, >> we are in a fight for housing justice for every single New Yorker. From 2021 to 2022, the rents went up 34%. We're committed to freezing the rent for the more than 2 million rent stabilized tenants. >> It's the ...

So David Ducker, you are in New Jersey right now covering the gubanatorial race election day tomorrow. We've talked a lot on this show about how it appears the shutdown is playing a role in that campaign that President Trump and you know as a form of political punishment slashf funding to a couple of big projects that yes they're based in New York City but they impact New Jersey including this uh new train tunnel that's so desperately needed for those who commute back and forth from the Garden State into Ma ...

Two days out from key elections in Democratic controlled states, President Donald Trump has been notably quiet about the races and completely absent from the campaign trail. In Virginia, the president has only endorsed one Republican statewide candidate, Attorney General Jason Marez. when it while in New Jersey the president's support for the GOP gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciderelli was a tea rally last week and his commentary on California's redistricting ballot measure has been largely focused on discre ...

New Jersey's governor race is shaping up as one of three key gauges on how voters feel about the first year of Trump's second presidency and whether Democrats have improved their standing ahead of the 2026 midterms. As of now, Democratic nominee Mikey Cheryl holds a narrow lead over Trump backed Republican Jack Chidarelli by seven points. Now, while New Jersey traditionally leans blue in general elections, Republican governors in the Garden State aren't actually that rare.But there have been growing signs o ...

COUNTDOWN TO ELECTION DAY, WHERE STATE RACES ACROSS THE COUNTRY WILL OFFER A SENSE OF HOW VOTERS FEEL ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS A WHOLE. IN VIRGINIA, DEMOCRAT ABIGAIL SPANBERGER IS LEADING REPUBLICAN WINSOME EARL SEARS, THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, BY 14 POINTS ACCORDING TO A POLL BY YOUGOV. MORE THAN 1 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE VOTED ALREADY, WHICH IS AT A HIGHER RATE THAN IN THE 2021 ELECTION.AND 376 MILES NORTH IN NEW JERSEY, THE GUBERNATORIAL RACE COULD BE VERY CLOSE ...

Joining us now, we've got Megan Hayes, former special assistant to President Biden and Mora Glasby, founder of Blue Stack Strategies and previous adviser to former House Speaker John Boehner. Megan, I want to start with you. Why did the administration wait until being told by a court that they needed to do the SNAP funding, saying that they need legal guidance when they've already moved money around to pay for other things, including apparently this private donation they're saying is going to help pay the m ...