Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) celebrated Democrats’ many wins on Tuesday as proof the U.S. wouldn’t be “intimidated” by Donald Trump — all because the president claimed Democrats solely received as a result of his identify wasn’t on the poll.
Ocasio-Cortez, chatting with MSNBC, stated the wins for Zohran Mamdani in New York Metropolis’s mayoral election and Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger within the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races signified that People wouldn’t thrive on worry anymore.
Mamdani defeated Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Silwa to win the mayoral election, whereas Spanberger bested Winsome Earle-Sears to develop into Virginia’s first feminine governor.
“I believe what this night time is beginning and shaping as much as symbolize is that People in every single place should not going to be scared,” she stated. “We is not going to be intimidated by an administration that’s violating the rights and making life onerous and unaffordable for each single American on this nation, and we’ll ship in a wave of Democrats that not bow to this administration, however stand as much as this administration and doing so within the curiosity of working households, within the curiosity to make life reasonably priced, housing reasonably priced and to face for the civil rights of all.”
In one other interview with CNN, Ocasio-Cortez stated Trump’s threats to spare solely the naked minimal of federal funding for New York Metropolis doubtless wouldn’t land effectively. “I believe he ought to be cautious concerning the threats that he points and what cities he threatens,” she stated.
“New York Metropolis will not be a metropolis, as we see from this citizens…our persons are not people who find themselves who simply again down, who take effectively to threats,” she informed CNN. “I simply don’t assume that People take effectively to leaders who attempt to coerce them by hostile messaging. I believe they need public servants who work for them and never towards them, and I believe that the outcomes that we’ve seen in Georgia, in Virginia, in New Jersey and in New York Metropolis show that.”
Her feedback got here after Trump, in his endorsement of Andrew Cuomo on Monday, stated it could be “extremely unlikely that I might be contributing Federal Funds, aside from the very minimal as required, to my beloved first dwelling.”
In his first feedback after Mamdani’s win, Trump advised Republicans’ final downside was that he wasn’t an choice to vote for.
‘“TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,’ in response to Pollsters,” Trump posted on Fact Social.
He then tried to maneuver on from the election, issuing one submit on the scores of his “60 Minutes” interview and one other urging Republicans to abolish the filibuster, the Senate mechanism requiring 60 votes to cross most laws, and cross “Voter Reform, Voter ID, No Mail-In Ballots.”
Some Fox Information personalities had been additionally pissed off by the outcomes. “The Democrats are going to spin this. ‘It is a referendum on Trump!’” Jesse Watters stated on Tuesday night time. “I imply, these are all blue states.”
Nonetheless, Trump and Republicans’ anger did little to dampen Democrats’ spirits over the victories in New York, New Jersey and Virginia.
“Beginning at 1% within the polls, [Mamdani] pulled off one of many nice political upsets in fashionable American historical past,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) posted on X. “Sure. We CAN create a authorities that represents working individuals and never the 1%. I sit up for working with Zohran as he builds a metropolis that works for all.”
“It’s a reminder that after we come collectively round robust, forward-looking leaders who care concerning the points that matter, we will win,” former President Barack Obama wrote on X. “We’ve nonetheless received loads of work to do, however the future appears to be like just a little bit brighter.”
“Double woohoo for Mayor-elect [Mamdani]!” wrote Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-NY). “His marketing campaign confirmed that after we battle for daring insurance policies like common baby care that make life extra reasonably priced for working households, we will win large.”
“Simply spoke to Mayor-Elect @ZohranKMamdani and informed him I’m wanting ahead to working collectively to make our metropolis extra reasonably priced and livable,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul added on X. “Congratulations to him and to each New Yorker who made their voice heard in one of many metropolis’s highest-turnout elections on file.”
“Democrats are smoking Donald Trump and Republican extremists all through the nation,” Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) wrote on X. “Sufficient with the untimely obituaries. The Democratic Social gathering is again.”
