Virginia’s race for attorney general was thrown into the spotlight after revelations that Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jonessent texts in which he fantasized about murdering a fellow lawmaker and their children. Jones is facing off against Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares, who is seeking reelection.
New Jerseyans will also select their next governor between former Republican Rep. Jack Ciatterelli and Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill.
New York City will decide its next mayor with three candidates left in the race: Democrat Zohran Mamdani, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who is running as an independent — and Republican Curtis Silwa.
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Spanberger leans on Obama and Democratic star power in battle against Earle-Sears
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate former Rep. Abigail Spanberger listens to former President Barack Obama speak during a campaign event on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, in Norfolk, Virginia. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
NORFOLK, Virginia — Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Virginia, is leaning on Democratic heavyweights and rising stars in her party in the final weeks of the battle to succeed the term-limited Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
On Saturday, Spanberger appeared at the Ted Constant Convocation Center with former President Barack Obama, perhaps the most popular Democrat alive, for a high-spirited and packed rally that energized voters ahead of Tuesday’s election.
Obama spent much of his 30-minute speech excoriating President Donald Trump‘s second administration, touting Spanberger, and encouraging Virginians to cast a ballot in the election. The speech was reminiscent of the Obama who ran two successful presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012 on a hopeful, inclusive nation that elected him as the first black commander in chief.
Alina Habba, acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, warned on Monday evening against cheating in the state’s 2025 election, which features a fiercely competitive gubernatorial campaign.
“The US. Attorney’s Office will coordinate with our partners at the FBI to respond to complaints related to the upcoming general election,” she pledged in a video message posted to X.
“This office will investigate and prosecute any criminal activity related to the election process, including intimidating or bribing voters, buying and selling voters, impersonating voters, altering voting ballot ballots and tallies, stuffing ballot boxes and marking ballots for voters against their wishes or without their input, and it will do so regardless of who commits those crimes and regardless of party or affiliation,” Habba continued.
Her statement comes as all eyes are on New Jersey, where Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) and businessman Jack Ciattarelli are battling for the governor’s seat in one of the most closely watched races in the country.
Polling indicates Ciattarelli is in a dead heat with Sherrill as he angles for an upset win to flip the seat red on Tuesday.
NEWARK, N.J.— Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli received a surprise special guest at his rally in Passaic County on Monday: his son, Jake, who is serving in the U.S. Army and is stationed in Kuwait.
Ciattarelli was at his first of his final three rallies before Election Day at Murph’s Tavern in Totowa, where the local GOP chairman orchestrated the big reveal.
“You don’t know what I’m going to say right now, but your biggest supporter that serves his country just came over overnight to serve you,” Passaic County Republican Chairman Peter Murphy said.
“Who’s here?” Ciattarelli asked with a confused smile. He was visibly taken aback when Jake emerged and gave his father a huge hug from behind the bar at the tavern, receiving loud cheers and chants of “USA.”
The New York City mayoral race has brought several issues to light in the last several months amid the noise about socialist Zohran Mamdani’s rise.
Those topics have gained attention in part because of Mamdani, whose solutions appealed to voters when he won the Democratic primary in an upset over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Mamdani’s affordability agenda has covered housing, child care, and transit, though he’s been criticized for a public safety plan that won’t hire new officers. Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa have pledged to hire thousands of new officers and clean up the city’s streets.
The two candidates opposing Mamdani have fought to find the same appeal; however, neither has been able to create the same momentum on the issues that Mamdani has.
A recent poll showed Mamdani’s trademark topic, the cost of living, as the most important concern in the race, followed by crime and housing affordability.
Voters have questioned how Mamdani would exactly implement his agenda if elected, and how he’d deal with President Donald Trump, as he has shown a particular interest in the race and could take action if Mamdani wins.
New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo cheers along with supporters while campaigning in New York, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
President Donald Trump reiterated reluctant but firm support on Monday for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the New York City mayoral race in the hope he can keep socialist rival Zohran Mamdani from winning the election.
A day after saying he would back Cuomo, “the bad Democrat,” over “communist” Mamdani, Trump took to Truth Social to urge New Yorkers to back the former governor, just hours before voters head to the polls on Tuesday.
“It is my obligation to run the Nation, and it is my strong conviction that New York City will be a Complete and Total Economic and Social Disaster should Mamdani win,” Trump wrote in a message weighing in on the race in his native state, and the city where he spent decades as one of the most influential developers in the country.
“His principles have been tested for over a thousand years, and never once have they been successful. I would much rather see a Democrat, who has had a Record of Success, WIN, than a Communist with no experience and a Record of COMPLETE AND TOTAL FAILURE….Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job. He is capable of it, Mamdani is not!” the president added.
Hundreds of thousands of residents have already cast early votes ahead of the Nov. 4 election, which has emerged as one of the most closely watched in the country after Mamdani shocked pundits with an upset primary win against Democratic rivals, including Cuomo and New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
The latest polling indicates a razor-thin race, with Cuomo trailing Mamdani by a narrow margin.
Elon Musk speaks during an event with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Elon Musk is the latest prominent figure to endorse former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s New York City mayoral campaign on Monday in a bid to keep socialist rival Zohran Mamdani from winning the election.
Mamdani is leading in the polls ahead of the Tuesday election, with Cuomo seen as his top challenger, followed by Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. A host of moderates and Republicans have issued endorsements to Cuomo, a Democrat running as an independent, in hopes of keeping Mamdani out of City Hall, since Sliwa is seen as having little chance of winning.
Musk added his voice to the fray hours before in-person voting started, with the X owner telling residents to “bear in mind that a vote for Curtis is really a vote for Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”
“Remember to vote tomorrow in New York!” Musk said in a post to X, adding, “VOTE CUOMO!”
“If you’ve seen my show, you know that I’ve made fun of many members of Congress many times for many years, for many reasons, but this is an earnest appeal asking you to get out and vote on Tuesday for a leader that I respect and admire, Mikie Sherrill,” Colbert said in the Instagram video.
After praising Sherrill for her work as a Navy helicopter pilot and as a federal prosecutor, Colbert ended the video by calling on voters to cast their mail-in ballots or make a plan to head to the polls on Tuesday.
In the final Atlas State Poll of the 2025 New York mayoral race conducted on Nov. 2, Mamdani is ahead with 43.9% of respondents saying they will vote for him in the election, with Cuomo trailing behind at 39.4%.
The gap between Mamdani and Cuomo decreased by 4.5 percentage points since Atlas’s previous poll. Mamdani is up 3.3 percentage points and Cuomo is up 5.4 percentage points since Oct. 30. Sliwa comes in third with 15.5% of the vote as of Nov. 2.
Atlas also asked respondents who they would choose if only Mamdani and Cuomo were candidates. Results from the hypothetical scenario show Cuomo in the lead with 49.7% of votes and Mamdani at 44.1%.
The margin of error is plus-or-minus 2 points.
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Mamdani frames NYC under his leadership as ‘alternative’ to Trump’s presidency in final campaign pitch
Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani suggested on Monday that he can be an “alternative” leader to President Donald Trump as part of his final pitch to voters.
“Today, the morning before Election Day, we have not only come so far—we stand on the verge of ushering in a new day for our city,” Mamdani said in a statement shared with the Washington Examiner.
“And so what we are here to show is that the answer to a Donald Trump presidency is not to create its mirror image here in City Hall. It is to create an alternative that can speak to what New Yorkers are so desperate to see in their own city and what they find in themselves and their neighbors every day — a city that believes in the dignity of everyone who calls this place home,” he added.
President Donald Trump will show his support for Republican candidates running in Virginia and New Jersey’s 2025 elections via tele-rallies on Monday evening.
The president has not gotten overly involved in the swing states’ gubernatorial races, though Earle-Sears and Ciattarelli have voiced support for his policies.
Given the recognition of off-year races as bellwether elections, Democrats have rolled out in-person events for Sherrill and Spanberger, featuring party heavyweights such as former President Barack Obama. Polling showing both states as likely wins for Democrats might explain Trump’s more lukewarm involvement in the races.
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Slotkin equates moment in time to Civil War, Great Depression, McCarthyism while campaigning for Spanberger
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) was on the campaign trail for Spanberger on Monday and compared this moment in U.S. history to times when citizens had to get more involved.
“In the middle of the Civil War, you would be OK to think to yourself, ‘Is the country, this young country, going to continue as the United States of America?'” Slotkin said while standing next to the Democratic nominee for Virginia governor. “Think about the Depression, right? Bread lines and soup lines down the street. The McCarthy era, the Civil Rights era, water cannons they turned on American citizens. They got through those times, every single time with two things: engaged citizens and principled leaders.”
“Engaged citizens who get a little bit more than they were used to doing, who knocked on doors even though they felt a little uncomfortable about it, right, or made calls, even though that’s not really their like thing that they were used to doing, and then principled leaders ready to receive the ball and do something about it,” she continued.
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Ciattarelli’s son surprises him on campaign trail, coming all the way from Kuwait
Ciattarelli had a surprise military reunion with his son Jake while on the campaign trail Monday morning. The touching moment was caught on camera while the gubernatorial candidate was stumping at a bar a day before the election.
🚨BIG SURPRISE GUEST: Jack’s son, Jake, straight from Kuwait! God Bless and thank you for your service. It’s time. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/TfrhyP7nwf
Over 735,000 New York City residents have cast their ballots early for the mayoral election between Mamdani, Cuomo, and Silwa.
Early voting ended Sunday at 5 p.m.
Mayoral elections typically do not attract record participation. On average, 1 million residents cast a vote. New York election expert Jerry Skurnik told the New York Daily News that he expects turnout this year to reach 1.5 million or more.
The race with the highest turnout in the city’s modern history was the mayoral election in 1965, in which over 2.5 million votes were cast.
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Mamdani campaign knocked on 157,678 doors in massive canvassing effort Sunday
New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a rally, Oct. 26, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa, File)
The Mamdani campaign announced its final number of doors knocked on Sunday, Nov. 2, was 157,678. Canvassers were attempting to break the previous record of 200,000 doors knocked on.
That record was made by multiple campaigns, whereas Mamdani’s record is for just his single campaign.
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Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign work for Mamdani draws scrutiny from DOJ for ‘foreign interference’
Democratic candidate for NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and U.K. Parliament member Jeremy Corbyn.
Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn hosted a phone bank for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Sunday, drawing scrutiny from the Justice Department for possible foreign election interference.
Corbyn is a current member of the U.K. Parliament, and his work supporting the Mamdani campaign could be considered illegal.
“I’m hosting a phone bank with @nycDSA to Get Out The Vote for @ZohranKMamdani today at 6pm ET. Let’s get Zohran over the finish line for a New York that’s affordable for all!” he posted on X. The three-hour event is hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America but paid for by Zohran for NYC.
