Dave Weigel

50 point something percent of voters said we're going to go with a young guy who wants to fight Trump.

That feels like more normal politics to me.

I feel like there has been a normalization of the idea that the president can stop funding, funding states and politicians he doesn't like, which is new.

I don't remember Joe Biden saying, I don't like Ron DeSantis.

Sorry about the hurricane.

I'm giving it to my friends.

Events change things.

I'm not impugning what Mamdani did because it's historic.

And he changed electorate.

And I don't think any candidate added as many Democrats to the voter rolls as they campaigned.

It's more than 150,000 people voted.

joining the party to vote for Zoran successfully last night.

But yeah, it was different than the rest of these races because Sheryl and Spanberger, who won by landslides and like real landslides, not like 1.2 percent.

But if you look at the swing state, yeah, no, like a real landslide, like one that carried along Democrats who did not think they were going to win their local races and

They both ran overlapping campaigns that you set up pretty well.

Costs are too high.

Donald Trump is hurting you on purpose through tariffs and through Doge firings and through canceling the gateway tunnel.

And I'm not going to get distracted by other stuff.

That was their campaigns.

And I was writing another piece for the newsletter about.