People go to the polls, with elections in New York Metropolis, New Jersey, Virginia and California
We’re restarting our dwell protection of US politics.
People are heading to the polls on Tuesday in quite a lot of elections that may present the place assist for Donald Trump’s Republicans stands and whether or not Democrats have trigger for hope.
A lot consideration within the US and overseas will probably be on Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor, who’s dealing with off towards former governor Andrew Cuomo, who’s operating as an impartial after shedding the Democratic major towards Mamdani earlier this 12 months, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.
Zohran Mamdani (C) raises his fingers throughout a marketing campaign occasion with New York Metropolis elected officers on 1 November 2025 in Queens. {Photograph}: Stephanie Keith/Getty Pictures
In California, voters may tear up their congressional maps to show Republican districts into Democratic ones in an effort to counter features the GOP is anticipated to make elsewhere after the get together gerrymandered maps in states together with Texas and Missouri.
Virginia and New Jersey will maintain high-stakes gubernatorial and legislative elections that will function a proxy for voters’ views on the president.
We’ll carry you the newest information and reactions as election day unfolds.
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Former US vice-president Dick Cheney dies aged 84 – household assertion
The previous US vice-president, Dick Cheney, has died aged 84, in line with a household assertion.
“Richard B. Cheney, the forty sixth Vice President of america, died final night time, November 3, 2025. He was 84 years previous,” Cheney’s household mentioned in an announcement quoted by The Hill and different media retailers.
“His beloved spouse of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and different relations have been with him as he handed. The previous Vice President died because of problems of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular illness.”
“For many years, Dick Cheney served our nation, together with as White Home Chief of Employees, Wyoming’s Congressman, Secretary of Protection, and Vice President of america.
“Dick Cheney was an ideal and good man who taught his youngsters and grandchildren to like our nation, and to dwell lives of braveness, honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing. We’re grateful past measure for all Dick Cheney did for our nation. And we’re blessed past measure to have beloved and been beloved by this noble large of a person.”
Cheney, the vice-president to former Republican President George W Bush between 2001 and 2009, was a key architect of the so-called “struggle on terror” after the 9/11 terrorist assaults, and an early advocate of the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
George W Bush (L) and Dick Cheney (R) on the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, in December 2006. {Photograph}: Mathew Cavanaugh/EPAShare
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US authorities shutdown ties document for longest in American historical past
The US authorities shutdown on Tuesday entered its thirty fifth day, matching a document set throughout Donald Trump’s first time period for the longest in historical past.
The final shutdown, which began in December 2018 and was led to by disagreements over cash to fund a wall alongside the US-Mexico border, lasted 35 days – the longest in American historical past (up till that time).
The toll of the present shutdown on extraordinary People will increase by the day. Meals help for the poor has been halted for the primary time and federal employees – from airports to legislation enforcement and the navy – are going unpaid.
The Senate has voted greater than a dozen instances towards a Home of Representatives-passed stopgap funding measure, and no lawmakers have modified their place.
Trump’s Republicans maintain a 53-47 majority within the Senate however want votes from at the least seven Democrats to fulfill the chamber’s 60-vote threshold for many laws.
Democrats are withholding their votes to extract an extension of some healthcare insurance coverage subsidies.
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Republicans and Democrats have entered a struggle in legislatures and courts to slim the political battlefield of 2026 earlier than a single vote is solid.
Usually, redistricting solely happens after the US census counts residents in every state each 10 years. A requirement from Donald Trump to lock in additional Republican-leaning districts in Congress, along with a altering authorized panorama round partisan gerrymandering, set off a series of mid-decade reapportionments.
Republicans maintain management of the US Home with a 219-213 margin, one of many smallest majorities in American historical past.
Three representatives have died in workplace – two Democrats and a Republican – who’ve but to get replaced. Every was in a district thought of protected for his or her get together. The Democrat Adelita Grijalva of Arizona has received election however, controversially, has not but been seated.
The Guardian’s George Chidi and Andrew Witherspoon used information from the Cook dinner Political Report and native media to tabulate the aspirations of leaders in every state the place redistricting earlier than the 2026 midterms has been contemplated.
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Current polling means that Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani has at the least a ten level lead over his opponents within the mayoral race: impartial candidate, Andrew Cuomo, and Republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa.
Atlas Intel ballot ending 30 October reveals Mamdani main with 41% in assist, in comparison with Cuomo with 34% assist and Sliwa getting 24% assist.
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Trump reluctantly backs Cuomo for New York Metropolis mayor
Donald Trump has reluctantly endorsed Andrew Cuomo’s bid for the New York mayoralty.
Cuomo, the previous Democratic New York governor and a long-term Trump critic, is operating as an impartial candidate after shedding the get together’s major to Zohran Mamdani, who will grow to be the town’s first Muslim mayor and its youngest in additional than 100 years if he wins.
“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York Metropolis, it’s extremely unlikely that I will probably be contributing Federal Funds, apart from the very minimal as required, to my beloved first house,” Trump mentioned in a submit on Fact Social. “I don’t wish to ship, as President, good cash after dangerous.”
Trump’s feedback echo these broadcast on Sunday throughout his look on CBS’s 60 minutes, wherein he mentioned: “It’s gonna be laborious for me because the president to present some huge cash to New York, as a result of you probably have a communist operating New York, all you’re doing is losing the cash you’re sending there.”
Mamdani has mentioned that if Cuomo wins, he can be a “puppet” for Trump. “I believe what scares me on this second is the prospect of Donald Trump’s puppet turning into the (mayor),” he advised NBC Information.
Donald Trump has endorsed Andrew Cuomo within the New York Metropolis mayoral race. {Photograph}: Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto/ShutterstockShare
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Former US president Barack Obama has provided to be a “sounding board” to New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani if his polling benefit turns into victory, in line with experiences.
Obama reportedly additionally praised the marketing campaign Mamdani had run towards his principal impartial rival, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, and the Republican nominee, Curtis Sliwa. The decision was first reported by the New York Instances after which confirmed to Reuters by Mamdani’s spokesperson.
“Zohran Mamdani appreciated President Obama’s phrases of assist and their dialog on the significance of bringing a brand new form of politics to our metropolis,” Mamdani’s spokesperson, Dora Pekec, mentioned.
Mamdani, a state meeting member, has polled effectively forward of Cuomo and Sliwa earlier than Tuesday’s common election. A latest Atlas ballot estimated Mamdani (40%) had a few six-point edge over Cuomo (34%) and a 16-point benefit over Sliwa (24%).
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Why may California redraw its congressional maps?
Chris Stein
Texas redrew their maps to favor Republicans at Trump’s urging, considered one of a number of states that the president has pushed to make use of partisan gerrymanders to assist the GOP maintain seats within the Home of Representatives in subsequent 12 months’s midterm elections.
For varied causes, solely a handful of Democratic-led states can redraw their maps to offset the anticipated Republican features, with California providing one of the best alternative.
As a result of the state has an impartial redistricting fee, voters will probably be requested to approve proposition 50, which might enact a brand new map that would enable Democrats to choose up 5 extra Home seats.
Backed by governor Gavin Newsom, polls have proven the proposition with a robust lead.
California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at a “Sure On Prop 50” volunteer occasion on the LA Conference Heart. {Photograph}: Jill Connelly/Getty ImagesShare
Why is Zohran Mamdani such a giant deal?
Chris Stein
New York Metropolis has most likely essentially the most high-profile mayor within the nation, and in June, Mamdani, a 34-year-old state assemblyman and democratic socialist, received the Democratic major in an upset over former governor Andrew Cuomo.
Although Cuomo stays within the race as an impartial, polls present Mamdani with a formidable lead, and if he wins, his model of left-wing politics will probably be given a outstanding platform.
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On Monday, the candidates for New York Metropolis mayor spent a frantic ultimate day campaigning throughout the town. Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner, whose marketing campaign has been centered on affordability, has maintained a commanding lead, with most polls displaying him main by double digits.
The 34-year-old Democratic nominee, a state meeting member from Queens, started his Monday strolling throughout the Brooklyn Bridge at dawn. He was joined by the New York legal professional common, Letitia James; the town comptroller, Brad Lander; in addition to a number of metropolis and state lawmakers and throngs of supporters.
He completed the stroll at metropolis corridor, the place he advised a information convention that “we stand on the verge of ushering in a brand new day for our metropolis”, and was scheduled to affix volunteers earlier than they started a ultimate day of canvassing in Astoria, Queens, later within the day.
New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo leaves a marketing campaign cease in New York. {Photograph}: Seth Wenig/AP
Andrew Cuomo, the previous Democratic governor operating as an impartial after shedding to Mamdani in June’s major, kicked off the final day of the marketing campaign with an interview on the Spanish-language radio station La Mega earlier than heading to a marketing campaign cease within the Bronx. He reportedly deliberate to go to all 5 boroughs on Monday.
Curtis Sliwa campaigns within the Staten Island borough of New York Metropolis on the eve of Election Day in New York on 3 November 2025. {Photograph}: Ryan Murphy/Reuters
Working a distant third has been Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate and founding father of the Guardian Angels, a non-profit group devoted to “unarmed crime prevention”. In response to social media, Sliwa spent a part of Monday morning at Coney Island and was set to host a tele-rally within the night.
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People go to the polls, with elections in New York Metropolis, New Jersey, Virginia and California
We’re restarting our dwell protection of US politics.
People are heading to the polls on Tuesday in quite a lot of elections that may present the place assist for Donald Trump’s Republicans stands and whether or not Democrats have trigger for hope.
A lot consideration within the US and overseas will probably be on Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor, who’s dealing with off towards former governor Andrew Cuomo, who’s operating as an impartial after shedding the Democratic major towards Mamdani earlier this 12 months, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.
Zohran Mamdani (C) raises his fingers throughout a marketing campaign occasion with New York Metropolis elected officers on 1 November 2025 in Queens. {Photograph}: Stephanie Keith/Getty Pictures
In California, voters may tear up their congressional maps to show Republican districts into Democratic ones in an effort to counter features the GOP is anticipated to make elsewhere after the get together gerrymandered maps in states together with Texas and Missouri.
Virginia and New Jersey will maintain high-stakes gubernatorial and legislative elections that will function a proxy for voters’ views on the president.
We’ll carry you the newest information and reactions as election day unfolds.
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