One of House Speaker Mike Johnson's staffers turned up the volume on a nearby television after Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) attempted a demonstration outside of his office, Raw Story reported. Ansari set up a table with a provocative sign and claimed that Johnson was holding up the swearing in of Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) for political reasons.
As the government shutdown drags on, political stunts escalate. Ansari took up her cause to have a conversation with Johnson by setting up a table outside of his office. The sign on Ansari's table said, "Mike Johnson is starving families and gutting healthcare to cover up the Epstein Files. CHANGE MY MIND."
She claims that since Grijalva would be the extra vote needed to release the files of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Johnson is holding back. CBS News's Patrick Maguire shared a photo of the lawmaker and her table in a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday.
Democrat Rep. Yassamin Ansari set up a table outside Speaker Johnson’s office, asking for a conversation with with him on shutdown. Her sign reads: “Mike Johnson is starving families and gutting heathcare to cover up the Epstein Files. CHANGE MY MIND” pic.twitter.com/IBizs0f25G
— Patrick Maguire (@patrickjmaguire) November 6, 2025
Ansari thought she'd be cute and use the format made famous by other political pundits to elicit debate. However, the stunt backfired on Ansari after a staffer decided to drown out her point with noise from a nearby television.
This nugget came from a post by Jamie Dupree, reporter and Substack writer, who posted about the incident to X. "Angered by the refusal of Speaker Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Rep. Yassamin Ansari D-AZ set up her own protest outside the Speaker's office. His staff cranked up the volume on the TV to drown her out," the caption said.
Angered by the refusal of Speaker Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Rep. Yassamin Ansari D-AZ set up her own protest outside the Speaker's office. His staff cranked up the volume on the TV to drown her out. pic.twitter.com/qx3mcMfwaa
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) November 6, 2025
A video of the supposed drowning out of her message was posted to X by Fox News reporter Aisah Hansie. The audio makes it difficult to hear what's happening, but it was more about the optics than what she actually had ot say anyway.
Dem Rep ANSARI is holding court outside the SPEAKER’s office taking questions about the shutdown with a sign that says:
“Mike Johnson is starving families… change my mind.”
She said someone raised the volume of the Speaker’s TV to drown her out. pic.twitter.com/yKlLwcEnqP
— Aishah Hasnie (@aishahhasnie) November 6, 2025
While Ansari is attempting to make a huge issue out of Johnson's refusal to swear in a new congresswoman, what she won't say is that this is all due to the government shutdown. Democrats are holding out on passing a continuing resolution, and Johnson has sent lawmakers back to their districts rather than stay in town with nothing to do.
According to The Hill, Grijalva complained on Thursday that Johnson is being "negligent and cruel" by not swearing her in. "House Speaker Mike Johnson’s recess of the U.S. House of Representatives during a time of grave national crises is shockingly irresponsible," she claimed in an op-ed published to USA Today.
"House Republicans have been on vacation for six weeks while our economy crumbles, federal workers go without paychecks, health care premiums skyrocket and funding for food stamps dwindles. This is negligent and cruel," Grijalva lamented.
She added that her swearing in is delayed longer than any representative "in recent history to be sworn in following a special election" after she was elected to replace her father, the late Rep. Raúl Grijalva. "As these crises unfold and intensify, Speaker Johnson refuses to swear me into office, an unprecedented and starkly undemocratic position that sets a very dangerous precedent and deprives 813,000 Arizonans of the congressional representation they deserve," Adelita Grijalva said.
Democrats are perpetuating the government shutdown, but now they're claiming to be victims. Johnson is simply responding to what his opponents are doing, and if it means someone will not get sworn in, perhaps the Democrats should consider that when continuing to vote down any funding.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has decided to press criminal charges against a man who groped her while she was in the streets of Mexico City on Tuesday, Breitbart reported. Video of the event shows the alleged perpetrator casually slipping past her security and putting his hands on Sheinbaum.
The president announced her decision during a news conference on Wednesday. "I decided to file a complaint. This is something that I lived and it is something that women have to live with."
The brazen attack took place in broad daylight as Shainbaum made her way through the city for an event. The man can be seen at first putting his arm around her shoulder and nuzzling his neck before placing his hands on her breasts. A video of the incident was shared in a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday.
📹 Ocurrió frente a todos: un hombre se abalanzó e intentó besar a Claudia Sheinbaum mientras saludaba a la gente.
Si eso le pasa a la Presidenta de México, ¿qué pueden esperar las demás mujeres?
El acoso sigue normalizado. Urge respeto.#Acoso #Mujeres #México… pic.twitter.com/Tik1zl1vRN— GPSnoticias Oaxaca (@GPS_noticias) November 5, 2025
The incident highlighted a troubling security issue for the president of Mexico that has far-reaching implications. Not only did the alleged perpetrator put his hands on her, but it took several seconds for anyone in her entourage to even speak to the unidentified man.
One of her assistants seemed to chastise the man, but that didn't stop him from trying to approach her a total of three times. What's more, this seems to be a pattern in the nation where top politicians are not kept safe, including Carlos Manzo, the mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, who was shot to death on Saturday.
In his case, a gunman was again able to circumvent any security personnel and fire several shots at Manzo despite having 14 National Guardsmen supposedly protecting him as part of his security detail. This came after the mayor was reportedly going after criminals and the Mexican drug cartels in his city.
The brazen murder sparked off days of riots in Michoacán and in the state capital, Morelia, CNN reported. The demonstrators used the slogan "enough of abuses and omissions" as their rallying cry, though the protests eventually turned violent, with some people breaching the city's Government Palace.
It wasn't just Manzo's murder that whipped citizens into a frenzy. Just last month, Bernardo Bravo Manríquez, who was a citrus farmer in Apatzingán, was found dead after speaking out in favor of more security for the nation's agricultural workers.
Unfortunately, Manzo's murder happened as the politician was attempting to clean up crime in the city. His suspected killer is thought to be a teen between the ages of 17 and 19 and may have been part of Mexico's organized crime community, though it's unknown since the suspect was killed after the incident.
Manzo was likely targeted for cracking down on these types of crimes and was often seen in public wearing a bulletproof vest. "Any criminal you encounter who is armed and resists arrest or attacks citizens, if you detect them during operations, you must take them down; there should be no leniency with them," Manzo said in a video posted to social media in May.
He was also critical of the Mexican president, whom he claimed was too soft on crime, as Sheinbaum often pushed for "peace and justice" rather than punishment for criminals. Like many on the American left, Sheinbaum has sought to address crime problems by addressing their root causes, such as poverty and a lack of education.
Now Sheinbaum has experienced the lawlessness for herself and has decided to press charges. However, the problems go far beyond political assassinations or public attacks on female politicians, and she and others in the government seem at a loss for how to stop it.
The fact that the female leader of the country is not safe on the streets speaks volumes about the situation for average citizens. The nation has been struggling for decades to get crime under control, but it seems the drug cartels and organized crime rings have a hold that's a strong as ever.
Sen. John Fetterman sided against former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) after she made several pointed remarks against President Donald Trump that he thought were out of line, Breitbart reported. The Pennsylvania Democrat slammed Pelosi after she called Trump a "vile creature" during an interview with CNN.
The 85-year-old lawmaker was expected to make an announcement about retirement following Tuesday's elections that included a referendum on California's redistricting. Nevertheless, Pelosi was out prior to Election Day smearing Trump, an activity which has become a favorite pastime for the elderly politician.
On Monday, Pelosi sat down with CNN's Elex Michaelson and trashed the president. "He’s just a vile creature. The worst thing on the face of the Earth. But anyway," she said to Michaelson, who asked if she thought he was the "worst thing on the face of the Earth" as a follow-up. "I do, yeah. I do," Pelosi responded.
“He’s just a vile creature.”
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi gave an interview with CNN’s @Elex_Michaelson criticizing President Donald Trump‘s actions.
Watch the full interview TONIGHT on “The Story Is with Elex Michaelson” airing 9p-11p PT/12a-2a ET. #CNN #News #Pelosi #Trump pic.twitter.com/FKcQJJnaHR
— The Story Is (@CNNTheStoryIs) November 3, 2025
Pelosi pulled no punches when it came to sharing her opinions about Trump, stating that she feels the way she does "because he‘s the president of the United States, and he does not honor the Constitution of the United States," the California Democrat told Michaelson. "In fact, he’s turned the Supreme Court into a rogue court," she claimed.
"He’s abolished the House of Representatives. He’s chilled the press. He’s scared people who are in our country legally," Pelosi added.
These remarks come as Pelosi has historically enjoyed tremendous influence within the Democratic Party and has wielded it against Trump for years. Her taking to the airwaves to call him names is nothing new, but it is unusual that a fellow Democrat would come to his rescue.
However, that's exactly what Fetterman did on Tuesday during an appearance on Fox News' The Story with Martha MacCallum. "The worst creatures on the face of the earth are Hamas or like the leadership of Iran — there’s a lot of people on that," Fetterman charged.
MUST WATCH: @SenFettermanPA responds to Pelosi calling President Trump ‘a vile creature’ pic.twitter.com/jLbaaBBHhl
— The Story (@TheStoryFNC) November 4, 2025
Fetterman took offense to the way Pelosi characterized Trump and, by extension, his supporters. "I would never use those kind of terms and I wouldn’t describe our president — you can really disagree with him, and I do disagree, but I don’t think that’s really entirely appropriate," Fetterman said.
"But that’s her words for that. So for me, that’s just a different kind of a Democrat for me," Fetterman added. He also said that he doesn't agree with calling people "Nazi" or "fascist" as many in his party are fond of doing.
The senator said the same thing on Jesse Watters Primetime when speaking about the way others in his party have decided to smear Trump and the GOP during the government shutdown debate. "As a Democrat, I refuse to call you a fascist or a Nazi. I’m not going to compare you to Hitler or anything like that," Fetterman told the host Jesse Watters.
"It’s wrong. If you resort to that, you’ve lost," Fetterman added. "If you call Trump a fascist, then you’re also saying the people who voted for him are fascists — and that’s not true," he concluded.
This is a refreshing take on the issue from Fetterman, though it's unfortunately a rare one among Democrats. It's time for Pelosi and her ilk to stop with the personal attacks and extreme rhetoric that have fueled a deep divide in the country.
Former President Barack Obama has inserted himself in New Jersey's gubernatorial race in an effort to bolster Rep. Mikie Sherrill's chances of victory in a surprisingly close contest, Fox News reported. However, New Jersey Republicans called out Obama for what they're saying is a "Hail Mary" pass as the clock runs out in order to drum up "fake excitement" for the candidate.
There was a time when Obama was a superstar of the Democratic Party and absolutely untouchable. Now, people see him for the political hack that he is, especially those who were formerly his base of voters, and are on to their tricks.
During a Turning Point Action rally on Monday in Medford, New Jersey, attendee and New Jersey voter Shawn Crump laid out the problem with Democrats placing their hopes in Obama. "I'll say this as an African-American, we're done hearing Barack Obama try to tell us how we're supposed to vote," Crump said
"Because, full disclosure, I was a Democrat," Crump confessed. "I worked on his campaign in 2008, and he just let us down. He let this country down, but he especially let down a lot of African-Americans. So we really don't want to hear him tell us how we were supposed to go," Crump added.
On Saturday night, Obama attended a rally for Sherrill in Newark, New Jersey, to urge the Garden State to vote for the Democrat once again. "New Jersey, I remember just a year ago, just a year ago, I remember talking to folks who would tell me, this election doesn’t matter," Obama claimed, referring to President Donald Trump's glorious 2024 victory.
"These are simple, educated, bright people. They say, 'Whoever the next president ends up being, it’s not going to affect me.' That’s what they would say," the former president went on. "If nothing else, the last nine months should have cured us of that idea, because the stakes are now clear," Obama went on.
"We don’t need to speculate about the dangers to our democracy. They’re here. We don’t need to wonder if harm is going to be done to vulnerable people, or whether the public conversation will become meaner and coarser. We’re witnessing it. Elections matter, and they matter to you, and they matter to your family. We are being tested, and what is remarkable about America is that it gives us the power, as citizens, to change this country," he said.
"We all have more power than we sometimes imagine. We’ve just got to use it. So, if you believe in that better story of America, you cannot sit this one out," Obama implored the audience. He shared a clip of his remarks in a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday.
If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to https://t.co/NKXRGNgbZX. pic.twitter.com/pg2KD4qsg2
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 4, 2025
Far from the optimism of his hope and change campaign, Obama's words smacked of desperation. "Let's face it, our country and our politics are in a pretty dark place right now," Obama said earlier in his speech, stirring up the anti-Trump hysteria.
"It's hard to know where to start, because every day this White House offers up a fresh batch of lawlessness and carelessness and mean-spiritedness. And just plain old craziness," Obama added. Although New Jersey is typically a reliably Democratic state, it also voted in former GOP Gov. Chris Christie in 2013 and went for George H.W. Bush in the 1988 presidential election against Democrat Michael Dukakis.
Trump nearly succeeded in flipping the state in 2024, losing by only six points but securing five counties for Republicans, which could explain why the Democratic Party appears to be in a state of panic. Burlington County Young Republicans' Joe Sereday told Fox News Digital that voters are coming out in droves for Ciattarelli, as Democrats seem to be throwing everything they can at this race.
"I think it's kind of old news now. Usually, when the Democrats roll in these big names — Obama, who else was here, Andy Kim, Cory Booker — usually that means they're in trouble," Sereday pointed out.
The dynamics of this election and the Democrats' response seem to indicate a severe lack of confidence. However, the true measure of their worries won't be known until Election Day results roll in, and it's anybody's game until then.
The federal government has prevented a total of 6,525 known or suspected terrorists (KSTs) from coming into the United States since the fiscal year began in July, according to the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).
This number is three times higher than the previous high number of 1,903 KSTs apprehended during the entire Joe Biden administration, and twice the more than 3,000 KSTs apprehended during fiscal year 2025.
The probable reason for the unusually high number of KSTs is the designation of Tren de Aragua, MS-13, other transnational criminal organizations and cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) when Trump took office in January.
The NCTC identified nearly 1,200 KSTs inside the U.S. in the first 100 days of Trump's second administration, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said at the time.
Of that number, 750 were identified with MS-13, Tren de Aragua, the Sinaloa Cartel and others, according to reporting by The Center Square.
As of October, NCTC identified more than 35,000 KSTs and added them to the federal Terrorist Screening Dataset (TSDS), NCTC director Joe Kent said.
That action was key in preventing the 6,525 KSTs from entering.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. We're doing this and more every day,” he said, noting that the Biden administration would have let those KSTs in.
CBP, Border Patrol agents, and multiple other law enforcement agencies receive biographical and biometric data for all KSTs listed in the TSDS.
Most KSTs had previously been apprehended at the Northern border with Canada, but the latest figures show that the largest number, 2,782, were apprehended at the Southern border.
The difference is Trump's designation of the drug cartels as FTOs.
KSTs identified at land ports of entry “are most commonly found inadmissible to our country and immediately repatriated or removed,” CBP says. “They may also be turned over to another government agency for subsequent detention and law enforcement action.”
If they are identified between ports of entry, they are typically detained and removed by Border Patrol or turned over to other agencies for detention and/or law enforcement action.
At a White House event last week, Gabbard said some high profile arrests have been made, including Sinaloa cartel leaders, money launderers and cocaine traffickers, and a CJNG cartel affiliated baby trafficker, “La Diabla” (“the devil”).
Throughout his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump made improvements in energy and infrastructure key pillars of his Make America Great Platform.
Now that he is in office for a second term, Trump -- through his Department of Energy (DOE) -- is endeavoring to invest upwards of $100 million in the restoration of coal plants across the country, and reverse damaging Biden-era priorities, as the Daily Caller reports.
It was on Friday that the DOE issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity in this particular strategic realm.
According to the announcement, the effort is meant to support “practical, high-impact projects that improve efficiency, plant lifetimes, and performance of coal and natural gas use.”
The DOE noted the administration’s hope that the projects would help turn the tide away from harmful policies undertaken by Trump’s predecessors.
“For years,the Biden and Obama administrations relentlessly targeted America’s coal industry and workers, resulting in the closure of reliable power plants and higher electricity costs,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright stated.
He continued, “Thankfully, President Trump has ended the war on American coal and is restoring common sense energy policies that put Americans first. These projects will help keep America’s coal plants operating and ensure the United States has the reliable and affordable power it needs to keep the light on and power our future.”
The Energy Department added that the Notice of Opportunity seeks applications from those capable of launching projects that will “design, implement, test, and validate three strategic opportunities for refurbishment and retrofit of existing American coal power plans to make them operate more efficiently, reliably, and affordably.
One such opportunity area is the “development, engineering, and implementation of advanced wastewater management systems capable of cost-effective water recovery and other value-added byproducts from wastewater streams.”
Another involves the “engineering, design and implementation of retrofit systems that enable fuel switching between coal and natural gas without compromising critical operational parameters.”
The last realm of opportunity is the “deployment, engineering, and implementation of advanced coal-natural gas co-firing systems and system components, including highly fuel-flexible burner designs and advanced control systems, to maximize gas co-firing capacity to provide a low cost retrofit option for coal plants while minimizing efficiency penalties.”
The DOE’s push could not come at a better time, given the administration’s recent release of a report documenting the risk of grid failure currently plaguing the nation.
This summer, the DOE report revealed that “blackouts could increase by 100 times in 2023 if the U.S. continues to shutter reliable power sources and fails to add additional firm capacity."
As such, the DOE's Friday announcement underscores not just the urgent energy challenges facing America, but also Trump’s willingness to address them.
Ronald Holmes III has left his position as national finance director for the campaign of U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner of Maine, WMTW-TV reported. Holmes announced that he was leaving the campaign because his "standards as a campaign professional no longer fully aligned with those of the campaign."
Platner, an oyster farmer, has positioned himself in the Democratic primary but has already hit some snags. The latest comes after Holmes abruptly announced that he was leaving the "Graham for Maine" campaign in a post to the professional networking site LinkedIn.
"I joined this campaign because I believed in building something different — a campaign of fresh energy, integrity, and reform-minded thinking in a political system that often resists exactly those things. Somewhere along the way, I began to feel that my professional standards as a campaign professional no longer fully aligned with those of the campaign," Holmes said in his post.
"I'm proud of the people who showed up with good hearts and clear purpose and the lessons that came with the work," he added. Losing Holmes is just the tip of the iceberg of problems Platner is facing.
Holmes is only the latest insider to abandon what appears to be a sinking ship. On Oct. 17, former Maine Rep. Genevieve McDonald left her job as the political director for the campaign following resurfaced Reddit posts crafted by Platner that attacked rural White Americans and slammed police.
As Politico reported, this trouble triggered the campaign to send out non-disclosure agreements to staffers, including McDonald. “The campaign offered me $15,000 to sign an NDA. I did not accept the offer. I certainly could have used the money. I quit my job to work on Platner’s campaign, believing it was something different than it is," McDonald told Politico.
This explaination from McDonald sounds shoickingly similar to the way Holmes described their parting. Unfortunately, the scandal has grown after additional posts came to light that he ridiculed the tipping culture of Black Americans and downplayed sexual assaults in the military.
Platner continued to experience personnel issues as recently as last Tuesday. His campaign manager, Kevin Brown, left his post after discovering that he and his wife were expecting a child, though the issues surrounding the campaign couldn't have helped. Prior to leaving, Brown had only served in the campaign position for a week.
As difficult as these changes have been for the campaign, arguably the worst scandal has to do with Platner's tattoo that contains a Nazi symbol. He has tried to explain it away as a drunken impulse, but the scandal is far from over.
According to Fox News, the controversy about Platner's tattoo erupted after old social media posts revealed the skull and crossbones design that was used by Nazi officers. The candidate said that he didn't know the origin of the design when he got the tattoo in Croatia in 2007, following a "night of drinking" while he was in the Marine Corps.
"We thought it looked cool," Platner claimed. He said he's "lived a life dedicated to anti-fascism, anti-racism and anti-Nazism" and was therefore "appalled" to find out its true origin. Platner shared the story in a video uploaded to X, formerly Twitter, on Oct. 22.
"Years ago I got a skull and crossbones tattoo with my buddies in the Marine Corps. I was appalled to learn it closely resembled a Nazi symbol. I altered it yesterday, into something that isn't deeply offensive to my core beliefs. I am very sorry to all of you who had to contemplate a symbol of hate over the past 48 hours," Platner explained in the caption.
Years ago I got a skull and crossbones tattoo with my buddies in the Marine Corps.
I was appalled to learn it closely resembled a Nazi symbol. I altered it yesterday, into something that isn't deeply offensive to my core beliefs.
I am very sorry to all of you who had to… pic.twitter.com/RQSiRsrTiC
— Graham Platner for Senate (@grahamformaine) October 22, 2025
Democrats have largely been silent on this controversy, but it seems Platner is unable to stop the momentum, even with the establishment remaining silent. Only time will tell whether Platner can ride this out, but it isn't looking good, and certainly won't serve him if he makes it to the general election.
James Carville criticized Hunter Biden for speaking publicly about anything, given the disgrace he has brought to his family, the Daily Caller reported. The famed Democratic strategist excoriated the son of former President Joe Biden on the "Politics War Room" podcast released on Thursday, telling him to "shut the f--k up."
The impetus for this tirade came from a revelation in a new book, Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America by ABC News's Jonathan Karl. In it, he claimed that Biden was angry over an incident that happened at a 2024 fundraiser where his father appeared with former President Barack Obama.
Joe Biden had one of his moments on stage, and Obama took him by the wrist to lead him off, which outraged the younger Biden. When Carville's co-host Al Hunt brought up the topic, Carville laid into the former president's son for being a grifter and embarrassing his family.
Carville pulled no punches when it came to the former president's son. "In terms of Hunter Biden, look — he did some really stupid g-----n things," Carville stated.
"That $50,000 a month from a Ukrainian energy company — I mean, if he cared so much about his father, it looks like he wouldn’t have done so much s--t to embarrass him. Getting him on the phone and whatever," Carville said.
Burisma employed Hunter Biden despite his lack of experience and education in the energy industry. There were also accusations that Hunter Biden was engaged in influence peddling and profiting from his famous name.
According to PBS News, Hunter Biden's former business partner, Devon Archer, accused him of using his famous father's influence to make a favorable impression. There were numerous shady dealings between Hunter Biden, his father, and business associates; however, Joe Biden pardoned his son on his way out of office.
"And I don’t criticize [former] President [Joe] Biden for pardoning his own son. I think he was a target of malicious prosecution, but I think he was guilty of some s--t. Okay?" Carville added. "He wasn’t like Chelsea Clinton or the Obama children or anything like that. He traded on his family name. But it would look like after you’ve gone through all of that, you would do the simple thing and just shut the f--k up.”
Carville is correct that Hunter Biden appeared to be intent on embarrassing his father, considering the abandoned laptop that would have become a career-ending scandal, had Big Tech not suppressed the New York Post's report. Still, the humiliating details of his alleged drug-fueled life of debauchery will never go away.
There were photos of Hunter Biden allegedly doing drugs, engaging with prostitutes, and all sorts of other activities. Rather than being discreet about it, Hunter Biden allegedly left behind this hard drive containing a trove of damning evidence at a Delaware repair shop.
Still, Hunter Biden continues to downplay the findings on the laptop and its origins. "So number one, there’s really never a laptop," Hunter Biden claimed.
"But there was a hard drive, and that hard drive became just a dumping ground for things that were hacked, stolen, fabricated, manipulated, real. Lot of — vast majority of things that are real," Hunter Biden said.
Joe Biden was no choir boy by any means, but his son seems to have surpassed him in the ways he could allegedly break the law and misbehave. If Hunter Biden had any sense, he never would have done those things, but he can't even manage to keep his mouth shut about it.
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and other large donors are looking to unseat Zohran Mamdani from his spot as frontrunner in the Big Apple's mayoral race, Breitbart reported. The Democratic socialist is far ahead of his closest contender, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which has establishment Democrats panicking.
The Democratic Party is attempting to raise big money to counteract the Mamdani effect. The large donors have been coalescing behind Cuomo in the hopes that "business elites" follow through on their promise to drop a cool $100 million to "knock out" Mamdani from the lead before Election Day.
Part of this strategy includes Bloomberg's continued endorsement of Cuomo, who recommitted his support for the former governor on a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday. Bloomberg, who served as mayor from 2002 to 2013, also donated $1.5 million to the "Fix the City" Super PAC.
Four months ago I endorsed @AndrewCuomo because I thought his management experience and government know-how made him the best choice for New Yorkers. I still do. And today, with early voting underway, I wanted to reiterate my support for Andrew Cuomo. Being Mayor of New York City… pic.twitter.com/4yWYcKAXXt
— Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) October 29, 2025
The former mayor and media mogul used his experience to explain why Cuomo would be a good fit for the job. "Four months ago I endorsed @AndrewCuomo because I thought his management experience and government know-how made him the best choice for New Yorkers. I still do," Bloomberg said.
"And today, with early voting underway, I wanted to reiterate my support for Andrew Cuomo. Being Mayor of New York City is the second toughest job in America, and the next mayor will face immense challenges," he went on.
"Andrew Cuomo has the experience and toughness to stand up for New Yorkers and get things done. I hope you will join me in supporting him," Bloomberg concluded.
Prior to this year, Bloomberg and Cuomo had "feuded" back when Cuomo was the governor. Now that he and Mamdani "have starker differences," it seems Bloomberg is willing to let go of whatever disagreements the two had for the sake of the city.
As early voting is already underway, a Quinnipiac University poll conducted from October 23 to 27 showed that Mamdani was the frontrunner with 43% of the vote. The rest was split between Cuomo at 33% and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels, who received 14%.
In a sane world, Mamdani would not be anywhere near the front of the pack, let alone leading it, because of his radical policies. For instance, Mamdani said in July 2020 that police officers "do not create safety" when they're called to domestic violence situations.
He instead believes that "mental health experts" should respond to calls rather than law enforcement. "There are so many responsibilities we’ve given to police that, frankly, should have nothing to do with their departments...there are so many different, different situations that would be far better handled by people trained to deal with those specific situations, as opposed to an individual with a gun," he claimed during a podcast interview.
Mamdani also famously supports city-run grocery stores. "As Mayor, Zohran will create a network of city-owned grocery stores focused on keeping prices low, not making a profit. Without having to pay rent or property taxes, they will reduce overhead and pass on savings to shoppers," Mamdani's campaign website claims.
"They will buy and sell at wholesale prices, centralize warehousing and distribution, and partner with local neighborhoods on products and sourcing." Other ridiculous ideas also include rent freezes and fare-free buses for all, both of which will make New York even more of a hellscape for the people living there.
Even with Mamdani's unflinching leftism and Bloomberg's backing for Cuomo, it almost seems this is a done deal for the socialist candidate. New York City is about to get what it deserves, but unfortunately, that will mean even those who didn't vote for him will have to live in the dystopia he'll create.
A story New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani shared about his aunt and her struggles to "feel safe in her hijab" after 9/11 hit a snag when it was revealed that he probably lied, Breitbart's John Nolte reported. The Democratic socialist frontrunner only has one aunt who does not wear a hijab and was not in New York City at the time.
"I want to speak to the memory of my aunt, who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab. In an era of ever-diminishing bipartisanship, it seems that Islamophobia has emerged as one of the few areas of agreement," Mamdani said. Nolte pointed out that the candidate fought through "fake tears" to make that revelation that turned out to be absolute nonsense.
Greg Price shared the clip to X, formerly Twitter, showing Mamdani stopping himself several times during the statement to appear as if he was choked up. "Zohran through tears: 'My aunt stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab.' Yes, she was the real victim of 9/11," Price captioned it.
Zohran through tears: “My aunt stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab.”
Yes, she was the real victim of 9/11
pic.twitter.com/aILr4JtVvF— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 24, 2025
Predictably, it now appears that Mamdani is another leftist liar who made up this story for clout. "The overall context was Mamdani defending himself against claims of anti-Semitism and an affection for Jew haters and Islamists," Nolte explained.
"Although all of that is true of Mamdani, what he’s doing here is pulling the trick perfected by Barry Obama, where you declare any criticism, even accurate and valid criticism, racist. Except…Mamdani lied," Nolte charged.
"Turns out Mamdani has only one aunt, a woman named Masuma Mamdani, who does not wear a hijab and who did not live in New York or even America during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks," Nolte pointed out. When confronted later, Mamdani tried to explain this away, saying he was "talking about his father’s cousin, a woman who is not his aunt and who cannot verify Mamdani’s tale of post-9/11 woe because she’s dead," Nolte said.
The leftist candidate tried then to pivot from the issue at hand. “I was speaking about my aunt, I was speaking about Zehra Fuhi — my father’s cousin, who sadly passed away a few years ago,” Mamdani said.
"For the takeaway, for my more than 10-minute address about Islamophobia in this race and this city, to be the question of my aunt tells you everything about Andrew Cuomo," Mamdani said, blaming his opponent, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Nolte sees this as yet another sign that "New York City is so screwed."
Nolte went on to explain that Mamdani is sure to get elected due to the city's "foreign-born population," whom he claims have "obviously not been assimilated thanks to the Democrat Party, and now New York will become Paris, Dublin, and London — an Islamized foreign country hostile to its host country," he warns. "What a shame. New York really was a great city at one time, probably the greatest in the world," Nolte added.
"This is how extreme the Democrat Party has become. They are alright with this and Nazi tattoos," Nolte said, referring to another radical leftist candidate, Graham Platner, who is running for U.S. Senate in Maine.
"In their demented minds, anything is better than Donald Trump, who is basically a Bill Clinton-style Democrat in terms of policy. One great difference between America and the lost continent of Europe is that we have 50 mostly sovereign states, the First Amendment, the Electoral College, and two U.S. Senators representing each state regardless of population size," Nolte went on.
"Our Founding Fathers understood history and put together a brilliant system to hold tight to our republic. It’s not foolproof. Nothing is. But for now, at least, we can all watch New York burn from the comfort of MAGA America, which is already everything Democrats claim they want America to be: clean, safe, and tolerant," Nolte concluded.
Mamdani represents the worst of Democratic politicians in the fact that he's anti-American, pro-Communist, and a liar to boot. As Nolte and many others are predicting, Mamdani will likely become the next mayor of New York City, and the people there will get precisely what they voted for. RIP New York City.