It was a bad night for Donald Trump. Faced with the prospect of a socialist mayor in New York, the president warned voters that he would withhold federal funds from the city.

New Yorkers made clear that they did not care for his threats, with more than half of voters backing Zohran Mamdani anyway.

Across the Hudson River, another rebuke for the president in New Jersey. During a telephone rally, Trump told residents that Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican candidate to become governor, would have a friend in the White House. While his Democratic opponent, Mikie Sherill, certainly would not.

‘So what’, came their electoral reply, as voters delivered Sherill a comfortable win in what had been expected to be a razor-tight race.

Add to that a new Democratic governor and attorney general in t

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