New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was kept at arm’s length by Democrat Cait Conley and embraced by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Both won. The election showed Democrats can take sharply different approaches to the party’s resurgent left and still prevail.

A blue wave gave Democrats control of the U.S. House and Senate in Tuesday’s election, but one seat that stayed in Republican power went to a Trump-loving rapper in Upstate New York. “To everybody that voted for Blake,

President Donald Trump’s lawyers will try to persuade a New York appeals court Thursday to throw out his hush money conviction, two years after it made history. The conviction, on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to obscure a $130,000 payment to adult film performer Stormy Daniels, continues to needle Trump enough that he denounced it on social media as recently as September. The president denies any wrongdoing, and he has turned...

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) reportedly believes not even Jesus Christ could have saved his congressional seat from the blue wave that swept the GOP out of power. The post Defeated House Republican Says ‘Jesus Christ Could Have Run and Would Have Lost’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Iowa is a pivotal state this year, with competitive Senate, governor and House races. In Minnesota, Democrats are trying to hang onto an open Senate seat. New York hosts a number of tight House contests,

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) secured key wins on Election Day with several ballot proposals that would build upon his administration’s efforts to expand housing, outdoor dining and public safety projects in the city. All five measures are expected to succeed, according to projections from The Associated Press. “Tonight, New Yorkers voted for…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is projected to sail to victory in New York City on Tuesday, easily beating back a symbolic challenge from Lewis Mizrahi, a Republican data analyst who never stood a chance in the deep-blue Brooklyn district, according to Decision Desk HQ. Jeffries has been the top House Democrat since 2023,…

A judge has granted permission for elections officials in a major New York county to move thousands of paper ballots to a secure warehouse after a technical problem caused vote-scanning machines to malfunction.

Representative Mike Lawler, a Hudson Valley Republican, chose to concede even with tens of thousands of votes yet to be counted because of balloting issues in Westchester County.