Julia McFarlane
speaker
503 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 16 Jan
Julia McFarlane’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's made a lot of promises as part of his democratic socialist agenda.
And the people of New York, but I think Democrats and the nation as a whole, will be watching very closely to see what he can achieve, and especially the Democratic Party, because...
I think clearly, as we've been talking about for the last few days, many in that party, senior officials in the party, have refused to back this new kind of candidate, suggesting that socialism wouldn't work in New York City.
Well, they'll be watching very closely as well, and perhaps just wondering whether this is the kind of candidate that they need to embrace in other parts of the United States, especially major urban centres.
to challenge Donald Trump's Republicans.
The Democratic Party is also on course for victory in a series of other elections across the United States, including the contests for governor in two important states.
Abigail Spanberger has declared victory in Virginia, and our partner station CBS projects Mickey Sherrill will win in New Jersey.
It's also projected Californians have chosen to redraw the state's political boundaries to counter Republican advantage in the midterms.
Here's Peter Bowes again.
We're seeing these jubilant scenes, the Democrats celebrating, as the governor-elect in Virginia said.
This will send a message, and it'll be a message that'll be sent directly to the White House.
Now, clearly, Donald Trump's name wasn't on the ballot this evening.
but the message will go straight to him.
And it remains to be seen how the president responds to this.
And of course, we are in the midst of this government shutdown, which is increasingly beginning to affect in very serious ways people around the country.
And the question is, will Donald Trump be listening?
Will he be receiving the message that we're hearing out of New Jersey and
Virginia and perhaps modify his attitude towards this shutdown and perhaps encourage his Republican colleagues in Congress to negotiate with the Democrats and perhaps reach some sort of compromise.
the immediate future.
I think also on Donald Trump's mind will be what is still likely to happen in California on this measure to redistrict, which means it is very possible that there'll be more Democrats elected from the state of California.
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