The Daily Signal - Last-minute Scandals, Endorsements, & Awkwardness Close Out the Off-Year Election | Nov. 4, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk. Business. Last-minute election campaign stops ring a bit hollow in Virginia, New Jersey, and California. And President Trump endorses Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York City as the Zoran Mamdani campaign hits additional bumps in the road before the finish line. I'm Tony Kennett, host of the Daily Signals Tony Kennett cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Tuesday, November 4th, Election Day, 2025. This is the Daily Signals, top news in 10.

Starting point is 00:01:00 A couple of last-minute election campaign stops are ringing a bit hollow with voters in Virginia, New Jersey, and California. The New Jersey gubernatorial race and the Virginia gubernatorial race are the two elections most at the center of the national political discourse. Former President Barack Obama stopped by a campaign rally for Abigail Spanberger Democrat gubernatorial candidate for the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Democrats' attorney general candidate Jay Jones, who had previously been in a scandal a couple of weeks ago over text messages suggesting that he wanted to see his former political opponent dead, as well as his wife and children, not to mention other allegations about wanting a couple of police officers dead if that's what it took.

Starting point is 00:01:43 Here was the former President of the United States, Barack Obama, advocating for Jay Jones and Abigail Spanberger. Many were quick to point out that last year, President Obama had lectured black men that they needed to elect Kamala Harris because she was a black woman. Winsome Earl Sears, the current lieutenant governor of Virginia, and running to be the Republican candidate for the governor of Virginia, is that black woman he's not endorsing this time around. Here's the former president's comments about Kamala Harris voting for skin, color, and race back a year ago that have now stirred up new controversy. So if you don't mind, just for a second, I'm going to speak to y'all directly and say that when you have a choice that is this click, when on the one hand you have somebody who grew up like it knows you, gets a college with you, understands the struggles and pain and joy that comes from those experiences.

Starting point is 00:02:58 Meanwhile, in California, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stopped by a Gavin Newsom campaign for Proposition 50 to support, well, to support something. It's clear that this governor has a vision for our country. He has knowledge of our country and our state. And over in the New Jersey gubernatorial, Democrat candidate Mickey Sherrill is facing a lot of criticism after a series of very weird ads compared to the candidacy of Jack Chittarelli.

Starting point is 00:03:30 We sat down with Wade Stottes to talk about what is being called a rather cringy election campaign. Wade Stotz is a guy that they really shouldn't let us have on the interviews because we sit here. We start cackling at, for example, you being from the beautiful land of our Kansas and I being from Indiana where no one knows what a Hoosier is. We have to pronounce in an off-year election a lot of names that we have no God-given business pronouncing. Like New Jersey's Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack. Oh, no. Cheaterrelli?

Starting point is 00:04:04 Chittarelli? How are we supposed to pronounce this one? I don't know. Every time I try, it does sound like a rude word. But I think it's okay, a sort of middle America gentleman. I think it's okay for us to mispronounce it. I think as long as we encourage people to vote for him, I think he's fine with it. I don't know the guy, but he seems like the kind of guy who'd be fine with it. And maybe if I knew him personally, he might be a little upset about it. But, you know, vote for the Jack. See name, whatever's name. Like back C. Reilly, you know. I mean, you're really engaged with the youths. That was very cool, by the way, Tony. Very cool the way you just said that. Like Gavin Newsom,

Starting point is 00:04:39 I also grew up on the streets with my five stack of PB and J. So I got to ask you a question. Do you also just cringe from, you know, toes to the top of your head when you see all of the coastal elite politicians come to campaign and off your elections? Like, oh, what Abigail Spanberger really needed was Barack Obama up there waving his arm around as though he's casting a vision Bob Ross style. Your wife kicked you out? Yeah. Who knew?

Starting point is 00:05:21 Yeah. Obama is this like sort of relic from a previous time and it is odd to see him because it feels like he's become so irrelevant to the popular imagination except for two like avid NPR listeners that it is bizarre to see. that he still exists and is, you know, waking up every morning and, you know, doing stuff like this. But yeah, casting a vision, it's odd to see a guy who lost so,

Starting point is 00:05:46 you know, like has continued to lose the like center of America. His entire legacy is gone. I mean, the state department. I mean, the state department is just no longer a thing in the Obama-esque fashion. I mean, Rubio has been going through like, like with a snow shovel and just scooping out row

Starting point is 00:06:07 after row of Obama staffers. It's fantastic. And then he has to get up on stage or Michelle gets on camera and says, you know what? No one's ever been as mean to anyone as to the first family. Yeah. Oh, and like same with Hillary when you see her just doing stuff. It's this very like, I don't know, this old starlet who used to have all the roles, this sort of old Billy Wilder movie.

Starting point is 00:06:32 And yeah, no, it's tragic. But it's a joy, I think. It's fun to see these people not know that they're irrelevant, not realize that they've lost so much. But, you know, who knows if these, obviously the particular elections are still at play. But these people are, I don't know, they might, I don't think that there's anybody in Virginia who was not going to vote for the Democrat who got mobilized by Barack Obama. It's a strange thing when you start talking about end of election mobilization. it gets cheesier and cheesier. And I think the cheese, you need to bring it out at the beginning.

Starting point is 00:07:09 Cheese is the appetizer plate. It doesn't really belong on the dessert plate in the campaign cycle. If you're going to get out the cheesers, you bring out Obama, right away and go, let me be clear. I'm up here. And then you bring him out in February. And then in November, you bring out the moderate who no one's really ever heard of, who sounds like droopy dog.

Starting point is 00:07:27 Oh, dear. And then you get like a few of the moderates in. Am I? Right. Am I off my rocker there? Would the cheese work way better at the beginning of the campaign? Like the Brat summer stuff, maybe? That's a good question. I mean, and I'm curious, even in that, in your opinion about this, where in there the attack ads? Like, do you, do the attack ads go early? Do the attack ads go late? Are they throughout? I mean, obviously you're using a meal metaphor, so I don't want to put anything gross in this lineup. But you can find the link to the rest of that interview in the description below. Lastly, President Trump has endorsed Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat for Mayor of New York City, against the other Democrat candidate Zoran Mamdani. Right at the end of the electoral cycle, the president has finally weighed in encouraging people

Starting point is 00:08:18 to ditch Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate, and vote for Andrew Cuomo, who is seen as the more likely electable candidate against Zoran Mamdani. In a true social post, the president said, quote, if communist candidate Zoran Mandani wins the election for mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing federal funds other than the very minimum as required to my beloved first home because the fact that as a communist, this once great city has zero chance of success or even survival. It can only get worse with a communist at the helm and I don't want to send as president good money after bad. It is my obligation to run the nation and it is my strong conviction that New York City will be

Starting point is 00:08:57 a complete and total economic and social disaster should Mamdani win. 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. He was nothing as an assemblyman, ranked at the bottom of the class, and, as mayor of potentially, again, the greatest city in the world, he has no chance to bring it back to its former glory. We must also remember this. A vote for Curtis Sliwa, who looks much better without the beret, is a vote for Mamdani. Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice.

Starting point is 00:09:36 You must vote for him and hope he does a fantastic job. He is capable of it. Mom Donnie is not. Here was Andrew Cuomo's response to the president's endorsement. I mean you remember everybody has to vote. Everybody has to vote because the future of the city of New York rides on this election. We can make this city better than ever before.

Starting point is 00:10:01 We can make the big apples shine brighter than ever before. But I need you to vote first and to vote for me. Thank you, God bless. And yet another scandal breaking open about the Zoran Mandani campaign, which he had previously touted as a grassroots success. Linda Sarsour mentioned earlier yesterday that the Mamdani campaign had been funded rather heavily by large packs, including those run by the Council on American Islamic Relations,

Starting point is 00:10:30 suggesting a not so grassroots campaign. Right now I'm a little more quiet because I'm on the quiet side of this race, but I'm going to tell you that once November 4th comes around, I will tell the story. The story is not just, you know, that it's random that Zahran ascended to this place. It is our Muslim American communities.

Starting point is 00:10:51 And I'll also say that it's Muslim money. The packs that have supported Iran or a particular pack that has supported Zahraan is probably, over 80% of Muslim American donors in this country, high net donors, grassroots donors. And I want to make the point that the Unity and Justice Fund PAC, which is the CARE super PAC was the largest institutional donor to the Pros of Iran pack in New York. Before you go, head down to the description and make sure you're subscribed to the Tony Kennedcast. And join us tonight at 7 p.m.

Starting point is 00:11:23 Eastern for the beginning of our Daily Signal election coverage live on all of our streaming platforms, YouTube, Rumble, and X, as well as on our affiliate syndicated TV and radio partners. We've got great guests, Victor Davis Hanson, we've got Scott Jennings. We have the former Attorney General of Virginia on to talk a little bit about some of the electoral matters at stake, and we're going to be covering all of this live in the way that only we know how to do. I'm Tony Kinnett, and this has been The Daily Signals. Top News in 10.

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The Daily Signal - Last-minute Scandals, Endorsements, & Awkwardness Close Out the Off-Year Election | Nov. 4, 2025

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