Two journalists who are part of Bari Weiss’s expanding journalistic empire were on-site to cover now-Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s election night watch party Tuesday in Brooklyn. Ed O’Keefe, senior White House reporter for CBS News, approached the event with the signature buttoned-up style of a longtime network political correspondent. Also present was Olivia Reingold, an election-night contributor to CBS who is a staff writer for the Free Press, the popular opinion website co-founded by Weiss, who was named CBS News editor in chief last month.

From a well-lit set inside the venue, O’Keefe reported Mamdani’s projected win. “Word of the victory has just reached this crowd,” O’Keefe said over the cheers of New Yorkers massing behind him, before offering up several minutes of political analys

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