Dems’ Election Day sweep: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: New Jersey and Virginia elect new Democratic governors by surprisingly strong margins.
After studying about Tuesday’s outcomes, I made a decision that I have to sit shiva for the Republican Party (“Prepare to pay for voting in extremists,” Ben Domenech, Nov. 5).
Linda Friedland
Whippany, NJ
Have people forgotten the metaphor of trees voting for the axe as a result of the axe deal with was made of wooden? This election shall be remembered because the day id politics defeated self-interest and common sense. As former President Barack Obama said, “Elections have consequences.”
Michael P. Mulhall
Moseley, Va.
The candidates in New York City, Virginia and New Jersey just about used Trump and affordability points as a purpose to vote for them. The unhappy factor is their insurance policies won’t ever make something more reasonably priced.
I moved out of town a few years in the past to Jersey, however Democrats’ insurance policies proceed to make it arduous to stay and retire right here. It’s time for Republicans to not simply wake up during presidential years, however all of the time.
Kevin Curtin
Pt. Pleasant, NJ
Democrats could have gotten drunk on their victories final week, however they’re going to have a hangover as they wake up within the months main into the midterms.
The greatest downside for Democrats going ahead is that they received their elections by making guarantees which are inconceivable to keep. They say life is unaffordable and promise they’ll make it reasonably priced — which they will’t, as a result of they’ve no control over the forces inflicting unaffordability. You nonetheless can’t flip lead into gold.
Arthur Saginian
Santa Clarita, Calif.
The election of Jay Jones as legal professional basic of Virginia is a new low for the Democratic Party. He is a sick and twisted particular person who ought to by no means maintain political workplace at any degree. It’s a unhappy yr for America that somebody so despicable can win an election.
Robert DiNardo
Farmingdale
The Democrats as ordinary are hallucinating. New York managed to elect a communist and New Jersey is a blue state. What’s the massive shock there? There’s about a million more Democrats than Republicans in Jersey.
They’re out of contact with the harm their get together did to our nation.
Brenda Hodgkiss
Atlantic Highlands, NJ
The Issue: The Post Editorial Board’s takeaways from the GOP’s losses within the 2025 elections.
New York’s Republican Party long in the past surrendered to a blue metropolis and state by selecting its ineffective chief, Edward Cox (“Republicans’ Road Back,” Editorial, Nov. 6).
He has by no means demonstrated a penchant for selling a lineup of electable GOP leaders amongst his flock. He is the supreme meme for occupying a management place by advantage of his household’s identify, with as lackluster a efficiency as might ever be imagined. Talk about “low energy.”
Colette Curry
Staten Island
I didn’t vote for Zohran Mamdani. However, The Post’s evaluation of the Democrats’ bounce-back was solely partly right.
In addition to voters being put off by mass roundups of hard-working immigrants who’re our neighbors, Americans don’t like the way in which President Trump and his administration by no means apologize for the way in which many of these people are mistreated within the course of.
Americans are additionally put off by the president threatening municipalities which have elected people with whom he has a personal vendetta. That’s the work of a bully and a cry child.
While he attributes these losses to the truth that he was not on the poll, he’s fallacious. Instead of bullying his manner by way of each side of his workplace, Trump must attempt appearing like a statesman for a whereas.
Lou Maione
Manhattan
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