20 hot election takeaways (to match Hochul’s 20-point margin of victory)
The nationwide Mamdani effect, the rise of the Trader Joe's class, millennials were right all along more notes from a rout
A year ago, we threw a banger of an election party as New York City voters sent Andrew Cuomo back to hell (Westchester); little did we know that that night might have set the tone for this Tuesday's massive rebuke to Trump and Republicans across the country. This time around, Team Groove just huddled in a bar on the Lower East Side to watch the results. But the theme uniting Zohran Mamdani's election one year ago and the full repudiation of Republicans and Trumpism nationwide on Tuesday seemed to be hope, with more than a little Mamdani-style joy mixed in. The lessons of 2026 midterms locally can be read as a win for public transit and proof that cringey millennials who were day drinking in Williamsburg in 2010 were right about everything after all.
In honor of Gov. Kathy Hochul's 20-point margin of victory over replacement-level Trump henchman Bruce Blakeman, we present our 20-point takeaway guide to this year's election results.
