"A Blue Tsunami’: Analysts Say Trump’s Chaos Sparked Historic Democratic Landslide | APT - video Dailymotion

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Analysts are calling it nothing short of a political earthquake. Democrats have swept the first major elections of Donald Trump’s second term, flipping key states and winning by margins not seen in decades. From New Jersey to Virginia and beyond, experts say voters sent a clear message — rejecting Trump’s influence and rewarding Democrats’ focus on affordability, safety, and local leadership.

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00:00it's a democratic landslide there's no other way to characterize this it's a big margin nearly a

00:27landslide margin in new jersey it is a landslide margin in virginia and the margin was so large that

00:36abigail spanberger was able to carry in her lieutenant governor candidate and even her scandal

00:41tarred candidate for attorney general that most people had thought would probably lose in the end

00:47he's won by four or five points you all chose leadership that will focus relentlessly

00:56on what matters most lowering costs keeping our communities safe and strengthening our economy

01:04for every virginian but it's even better than that for democrats they got they've already hit 60 out

01:13of 100 seats in the house of delegates they were at 51. this is the biggest margin they've had in

01:18decades and then the democrats won the two public service commissioner seats in georgia they kept

01:26they retained the three supreme court seats in pennsylvania you look around the country even at

01:34smaller races in cities and counties and you can see that democrats are just doing well everywhere

01:41i know your struggles i know your hopes i know your dreams so serving you is worth any tough fight i have

01:50to take on and i am incredibly honored to be your next governor

01:56and you know i think also cheryl also ran a largely uh you know campaign that was uh maybe not 100 fully

02:07but pretty close to fully anti-trump and a lot of his policies and tried to pin the policies of the

02:13the last 11 months uh as affecting new jersey voters whereas you know her opponent chattarelli was 100

02:19uh you know with trump and endorsement it was trying to place blame for the economic policies or the

02:25economic state of the of new jersey excuse me uh on the policies of the democratic governors right and

02:31state-based policies and that doesn't seem to have been a winning strategy for him in the end

02:36you know you expect a party to win places where they have a plurality or majority of the electorate

02:44when the other parties in control of the white house but not by this margin so there's a tremendous

02:50signal here for republicans they won't get it unless donald trump gives them permission to get it

03:01and look there are lots of reasons for it affordability and all the other issues they

03:05were discussing but the number one number two and number three reason donald j trump

03:22in the last nine months trump has done more controversial some would say outrageous things

03:29than any president in american history including donald trump

03:331.0 this has a cumulative effect

03:46to that is yeah mom donnie uh would have a hard time winning in most places in the united states

03:51and that's where uh uh cheryl in new jersey governor-elect cheryl and governor-elect spandberger

03:58in virginia come in they're moderates so the parties are smart enough to run people in states and

04:05localities and congressional districts that can actually win those those places and reflect the

04:11values of those places um so mom donnie will be the face of the democratic party if democrats don't

04:18fight that that's what republicans intend to do and yet over the last 12 months

04:23i think the the word that i keep hearing and that is coming out a lot of the exit polls and other

04:43surveys that i'm hearing is affordability being a major issue uh for democrats and that obviously encompasses

04:48the economy but this but it also encompasses things you know like specifically like health

04:53care uh and housing affordability and so this uh you know seeing some survey data coming out that that

05:00affordability in the economy more generally seem to be number one priorities are the the biggest issue

05:05for voters in this cycle yeah in new york city uh we have in terms of the sheer volume of voters the

05:12sheer number the most since at least 1969 so in new york city over two million votes uh have been cast

05:19at least according to current count and so what that is as a turnout percentage i'm not exactly sure at

05:24this point in time but in terms of the number of votes we haven't seen this in a long long time in new

05:28york city which like mom donnie was able to uh win over voters in new york city uh largely based on a

05:36message related to affordability and wanting to work to make the city a better place in other words a

05:42really locally based message uh to start off a campaign and one he stuck with throughout the

05:48campaign that created a lot of enthusiasm especially it seems to be the case among younger voters

05:54and i look forward to seeing you all and working together once again to make sure that we effectuate

05:58the kind of change we so desperately need here in this state that we also love so very very much

06:03guys thank you thank you thank you and thank you for republicans if they dare if they have the

06:11courage if they can find the courage they need to counteract donald trump's more outrageous actions

06:17they they have to insist that he think about the people on the ballot next november because he clearly

06:24didn't uh this november he can't do everything he wants to do he can't post everything he wants to post

06:32on truth social there have to be some breaks and if they can't install the brakes they need to get ready

06:39for another disaster next year and i'm i'm so excited we got this party started a little earlier than expected

06:58on the democratic side they will make a mistake if they think that they've learned everything they need

07:04to learn from these scattered elections uh in this off off year they learned some lessons but they need

07:11to apply these lessons individually and differently to each state uh to each district to each locality

07:18and if they do that and they find those younger more charismatic candidates they're going to have a lot more

07:23victories

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