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Off-Year Election Read-Out: NYC, California, and more!

Election nerds (and New Yorkers and Californians) unite: A post special election analysis looking at the New York City mayoral race, various governors contests and the crucial battle over redistricting in California. We’ll dive into winners, losers and what – if anything – these races presage for the 2026 midterm elections.

Featuring Jonathan Martin, senior political columnist at Politico; Amy Walter, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Cook Political Report; Democratic strategist Waleed Shahid and Mark Campbell, Republican political strategist. Jonathan Martin will join in person, and the other guests will join via Zoom.

  • Jonathan Martin National Political Correspondent, The New York Times, Former Senior Political Reporter, POLITICO, Author, This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future
  • Amy Walter Publisher and editor-in-chief of the Cook Political Report, Member, The University of Chicago Institute of Politics Board of Advisors
  • Waleed Shahid Democratic strategist and one time spokesman for Justice Democrats
  • Mark Campbell Winter 2022 Pritzker Fellow, Republican strategist, campaign manager for Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin, national political director for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign

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