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Election News Digest: June 25 [1]
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Date: 2025-06-25
Scott Brown jumping into 2026 race for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire
Brown is in. The Rye Republican is launching another campaign to return to the U.S. Senate, WMUR Political Director Adam Sexton was first to report on Wednesday.
“ The reason I am running is a kind of fed up with the federal delegation. We've been blessed here in New Hampshire. We've had Gov. Sununu, Gov. Ayotte, the Legislature, the Executive Council all working very hard for years to protect the New Hampshire advantage -- while we see in the federal delegation the over-taxation, overregulations," Brown said. "On the policy stuff, the open borders, the sanctuary cities, zealously fighting to protect the so-called rights of illegals."
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How Democrats Can Win Back Young Men
Hundreds — even thousands of young men line the crowd of a conservative rally in the summer of 2024. Most are wearing MAGA hats, everyone in some form of masculine-patriotic gear from head to toe. They’ve spent all afternoon standing in the large room at the conference center in the closest big city. As they get to watch their favorite influencers, the role models they’ve come to know through podcasts and an extreme online presence, and now they’re anticipating the grand finale — a speech from Donald Trump.
The night has been carefully choreographed to fill young men’s desperate thirst for purpose. They’re lost and these rallies — this movement — have become an identity they feel secure in. Ignored by a class of progressives they felt abandoned them and their problems. Instead, they turned to figures who cosplayed the masculinity they were raised to embrace — Andrew Tate, Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and others.
For Democrats, and frankly, society as a whole — this isn’t just about losing votes — it’s about ceding a generation of young men to forces that thrive on division, cruelty, and authoritarianism. In 2024, young men under 30 swung significantly toward Trump, with 56 percent backing him. Over the past decade, young men identifying with the Democratic Party have dropped from 42 percent to 32 percent from 2020 to 2024 (2024 exit polls / Pew / Brookings). Young men aren’t naturally drawn to hate or cruelty. They’re drawn to purpose, belonging, and strength. If Democrats don’t give them those things (which they haven’t), the far right has and will.
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Inside Mamdani’s Triumph and Cuomo’s Humiliation The frontrunner couldn’t see what was coming.
In the end, it wasn’t just one neighborhood like one of those left-leaning precincts that line the waterfront from Astoria over to Red Hook. No, when Zohran Mamdani won the first ballot of the Democratic primary for mayor on Tuesday night he did so by winning nearly everywhere. A 17-point victory in Washington Heights, where one of Andrew Cuomo’s chief backers, Representative Adriano Espaillat, presides. Eighteen points in the Financial District, home to the kind of well, financial types who are thought to fear what a democratic socialist would mean to the economy. Mamdani ran even with Cuomo in Black neighborhoods like Cypress Hills and Pelham Parkway, and eked out near double-digit wins in what were thought to be conservative leaning white neighborhoods Dyker Heights and College Point.“A neighborhood realignment,” one senior Mamdani campaign advisor said as the results trickled in. “We won everywhere.”
At the Cuomo election night party, held at the Carpenters Union hall on the west side of Manhattan, a grim mood set in early among the longtime aides, elected officials, union bigwigs, and family friends gathered there. The usual chest-thumping from Team Cuomo was surprisingly muted, and aides huddled over their phones, checking the returns on the Board of Election website alongside everyone else.
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Anthony Weiner’s comeback falling short in bid for NYC council seat
Anthony Weiner’s political comeback seemed unlikely Tuesday night as the disgraced ex-congressman was running a distant fourth late Tuesday in his bid for New York City Council .
Weiner, whose serial sexting scandals upended his political career and ultimately landed him in prison , entered the race in December for an open Council seat in Manhattan’s District 2 — from the East Village to Gramercy and Kips Bay-Murray Hill.
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Top Democrats on Zohran Mamdani’s Win and the Future of Big City Politics
Zohran Mamdani ran for mayor of New York on a campaign to freeze the rent, provide free buses and establish city-owned grocery stores. Critics scoffed at the 33-year-old democratic socialist’s pie-in-the-sky agenda. And then he trounced everyone.
The stunning outcome of the Democratic primary for New York City signals a potential sea change in the politics of the city — and could reshape American politics writ large.
To get a sense of what a Mamdani victory would mean for the future of urban governance and the Democratic Party, we reached out to current and former mayors as well as politicos with significant knowledge of city politics.
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Andrew Cuomo to drop NYC mayoral bid after blistering primary defeat to Zohran Mamdani: sources
Cuo-no more.
Andrew Cuomo will drop out of the mayor’s race after his humiliating defeat against socialist Zohran Mamdani, sources told The Post — as the ex-governor’s donors and backers desert him and weigh whether to boost Eric Adams.
Several insiders close to the Cuomo camp said Wednesday that the thrice-elected Democrat will almost certainly not run in the general election as an independent candidate, seeing no obvious path to victory.
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