Election Day 2025 dwell updates: Mamdani and Cuomo face off in NYC mayoral race | EUROtoday

California Senator Alex Padilla introduced Tuesday he is not going to run for governor in 2026.

“I choose not just to stay in the Senate; I choose to stay in this fight,” Padilla told reporters.

It’s Election Day, and many eyes are focused on the New York City mayoral race, where 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani is poised to take the helm of the nation’s most populous city.

The Democratic candidate — a Uganda-born, Manhattan-raised state assemblyman and Democratic socialist — rose to prominence through a grassroots campaign relentlessly focused on the high cost of living. He has vowed to “remodel the costliest metropolis within the United States of America into one which’s inexpensive to each one who calls it dwelling.”

His sudden ascent caught many without warning. The son of immigrants, he spent his childhood rapping, taking part in cricket and attending New York public faculties — the place he made his first, albeit unsuccessful, foray into politics. Later, he attended a prestigious college in New England earlier than working as a housing counselor.

For the previous 4 years, he has represented components of Queens in Albany, the place he has positioned himself as a staunch advocate for the working class.

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Besides selecting their subsequent mayor, New Yorkers will probably be voting on 4 main housing-related proposals supposed to handle the town’s inexpensive housing disaster — a key pillar of Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani’s marketing campaign.

The measures, which have been developed beneath Mayor Eric Adams’s administration, would shift energy away from the New York City Council, dramatically altering the steadiness of energy relating to land use and improvement points by elbowing out neighborhood decision-making and concentrating extra authority within the mayor’s workplace.

The metropolis council — warning {that a} focus of energy within the mayor’s workplace could be a catastrophe beneath a mayor who’s dangerous on housing points — has known as on New Yorkers to vote in opposition to them.

Mamdani’s marketing campaign, till in the present day, has saved quiet about how he deliberate to vote for them. On Election Day, he voted in favor.

“I think we need to urgently build more housing… across the five boroughs,” he stated. “And we also need to ensure that that housing is high quality, creating high-quality union jobs.”

Opposition from metropolis council “is driven by a commitment to their communities and a deep concern about investment in those communities,” he stated. “I share the commitment to that investment.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has refused to say who he voted for in New York City’s mayoral race.

“Look, I voted and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help New York City,” Schumer told reporters Tuesday, per NBC News.

Schumer has not endorsed Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani or former Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and New York Governor Kathy Hochul have endorsed Mamdani.

With hours to go until polls close on California’s House redistricting ballot initiative, President Donald Trump and his aides are already attempting to undermine the result with seemingly unfounded claims of widespread fraud.

The president took to Truth Social just hours after polls opened across the Golden State to claim that the “unconstitutional” vote on whether to temporarily adopt a congressional district map to counter GOP-led redistricting efforts in Texas is “a giant scam” because “the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED.”

Trump then added: “All “Mail-In” Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are “Shut Out,” is under very serious legal and criminal review. STAY TUNED!”

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More than 735,000 people cast their ballots in New York City’s mayoral race during the nine days of early voting.

As of 3 p.m. ET Tuesday, more than 1.4 million people have voted, according to the NYC Board of Elections.

Ballots are still being cast. Polls close at 9 p.m. ET.