Americans go to the polls, with elections in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia and California
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Zohran Mamdani speaks during a campaign event at Dutch Kills Playground in the Astoria neighborhood of the Queens borough in New York City. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images
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Tue 4 Nov 2025 14.35 CET
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Americans go to the polls, with elections in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia and California
We are restarting our live coverage of US politics.
Americans are heading to the polls on Tuesday in a number of elections that will show where support for Donald Trump’s Republicans stands and whether Democrats have cause for hope.
Much attention in the US and abroad will be on Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor, who is facing off against former governor Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent after losing the Democratic primary against Mamdani earlier this year, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.
Zohran Mamdani (C) raises his hands during a campaign event with New York City elected officials on 1 November 2025 in Queens.
Zohran Mamdani (C) raises his hands during a campaign event with New York City elected officials on 1 November 2025 in Queens. Photograph: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
In California, voters could tear up their congressional maps to turn Republican districts into Democratic ones in an effort to counter gains the GOP is expected to make elsewhere after the party gerrymandered maps in states including Texas and Missouri.
Virginia and New Jersey will hold high-stakes gubernatorial and legislative elections that may serve as a proxy for voters’ views on the president.
We will bring you the latest news and reactions as election day unfolds.
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Donald Trump has no scheduled events today, per his official schedule. However, he has already posted on Truth Social, recirculating his new passion project – the elimination of the filibuster. This is the 60-vote threshold needed in Congress to end debate in the Senate and bring a bill to a vote. It’s the procedural measure that has inhibited passing a short term funding bill to keep the government open.
“It will be impossible for Republicans to get Common Sense Policies done with these Crazed Democrat Lunatics being able to block everything by withholding their votes,” Trump wrote in his post a short while ago.
He ended his post with his signature all-caps insistence:
TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER NOW, END THE RIDICULOUS SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATELY, AND THEN, MOST IMPORTANTLY, PASS EVERY WONDERFUL REPUBLICAN POLICY THAT WE HAVE DREAMT OF, FOR YEARS, BUT NEVER GOTTEN. WE WILL BE THE PARTY THAT CANNOT BE BEATEN - THE SMART PARTY!!!
Later, we will hear from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt at 1pm ET, when she holds a briefing with reporters.
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