Behold the Right’s Post-Election 2025 Crashout

A big blue wave hit the U.S. Tuesday night—and at least one Republican on Wednesday morning suggested that someone “launch the nuke.”

By Danielle Han  |  November 5, 2025 | 12:51pm
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Behold the Right’s Post-Election 2025 Crashout

2025 has been an incredibly difficult year for the United States. And while Trump’s been defunding reproductive health clinics and slashing SNAP, using the Justice Department for his own petty fights, tapping neo-Nazi-wannabes to attack Democrat-led cities, and bulldozing down the White House, Democrats, in response, have done little more than to feebly point at the Constitution. 

But Tuesday night, the left enjoyed a rare moment of ~hope~, and swept all four major races. In New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill’s win marked the first time since the 1960s that a governor from the same party was elected for three consecutive terms. In Virginia, Abigail Spanberger made history by becoming the first female governor. In California, voters approved a ballot measure to redraw the state’s congressional districts to favor Democrats (a pushback on Texas for doing the same thing to gain five more GOP seats). And in New York–despite the best efforts of Trump, the GOP, and even some Democrats—Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor.

So after numerous losses and setbacks—the majority of which can, yes, be blamed on Democratic leadership—we finally get to be a sore winner. Here are the best crashouts following the 2025 blue wave.

Trump blames losses on the fact that he wasn’t a candidate

“TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday night, saying he got the information from unidentified “pollsters.” (Technically, legally, and constitutionally, Trump can’t even be on the ballot again.)

Then, around midnight—seemingly after Mamdani finished his victory speech—Trump ominously posted, “…AND SO IT BEGINS!” And so, it does. Thank God.

He reportedly continued to crash out on Wednesday, yelling at GOP lawmakers and arguing with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

New Jersey does what it does best, and bullies a man while he’s down

Ciattarelli lost to Sherrill by more than 400,000 votes in what was expected to be a nail-biting race. I was born and raised in the Garden State, so I can confidently say that taking any L there is not for the faint of heart. But to lose there three times in a row—and embarrassingly, at that? Good luck on your next trip to Wawa, Jack. 

Mike Johnson is dissociating

House Speaker Johnson (who monitors porn intake with his son) says “I don’t know” a LOT. But today, Johnson went from practicing willful cluelessness to outright delusion when he told the press, “I don’t think the loss last night was any reflection about Republicans at all.” I know a suppressed crashout when I see one.

JD Vance’s half-brother LOSES

Cory Bowman, the Republican candidate for the mayoral election in Cincinnati, Ohio, lost to Aftab Pureval—badly. Like, he got decimated. Pureval won by more than 80% of the vote.

Maybe it’s because Bowman leads a church that encourages members to speak in tongues, or maybe it’s because his half-brother, Vice President JD Vance, endorsed him. Who knows? We’re still laughing.

Vance has not commented on Bowman’s defeat, but he did tweet that he thinks “it’s idiotic to overreact to a couple of elections in blue states.”

George Santos takes it out on Curtis Sliwa’s cats

At some point on Tuesday, Republicans knew the race in New York was over—so they started attacking Curtis Sliwa, the Republican mayoral candidate who repeatedly said he hates Cuomo and wouldn’t drop out, again.

Technically, if you were to combine the people who voted for Cuomo and Sliwa, it still wouldn’t have been enough to beat Mamdani. But that didn’t stop former New York Rep. George Santos from posting what looks like a Burn Book entry from Mean Girls.

The New York Post gave us a gorgeous commemorative cover

The Post hates Mamdani and endorsed Cuomo, so I imagine they think this cover is a good diss. But it encouraged New Yorkers to “On your Marx, get se, Zo!” And “Zo,” Twitter did.

“Need to frame this,” one user tweeted. “This would go incredibly hard on a tshirt,” another wrote. “Everything about new york is incredible,” read another tweet. “Including its weirdest newspaper.”

“See you guys can’t help but have a little fun right now,” another teased. “Deep down you love it.”

The “If Mamdani Wins…” crowd is forced to contend with their words

Two days ago, the New York Post reported that nearly a million people were ready to make a dramatic exodus from the city if Mamdani won. Add that to the handful of billionaires who told the Free Press that they’d also be leaving if Mamdani won the primaries, and it seems Mamdani is already improving New York from day one. Leave your leases and the keys on your brownstone doorsteps, please!

Tomi Lahren does not believe this land was made for you and me

Did your city fall to a candidate who promises free buses, affordable prices, and universal healthcare?? You’re on your own; the far-right personality says she will never let you into hers. No matter how much you want to live in a city with high gun rates and low education levels.

“After yall finish totally screwing up your blue cities and states you’ll decide to flee to our great red cities and states with your ‘coexist’ and ‘no human is illegal’ yard signs,” shse wrote on Twitter after Mamdani’s victory was announced. “Please don’t come. You made your bed. Stay there.” Sounds like a deal to me!  

Debra Messing loses it

Throughout Election Day, anti-Mamdani freaks were going crazy on Twitter (probably encouraged and enabled by Cuomo’s campaign strategy to be… racist). One of them was Debra Messing, who posted the amount of Instagram stories you might expect from the friend who’s just had their first baby, or is at Coachella for the very first time. Many of the stories were criticized for being blatantly Islamophobic—and very concerning! I fear the worst of her crashout is yet to come…

Republicans realize there’s no one to point fingers at… but themselves

On Fox and Friends, Katie Zacharia, a GOP political strategist (with a slightly terrifying television smile), blamed the losses on “anti-Trump messaging across the board,” and echoed his Truth Social claims that part of the reason people didn’t show up to vote was a Trump-less ballot. (Can someone get these people a constitution?)

She then urged Republicans to “save the House in 2026,” lest there be more impeachment attempts against Trump to come. Don’t threaten us with a good time, Katie!

Rep. Mike Collins’ big blow-up

The GOP representative from Georgia ominously tweeted  Wednesday morning, “Launch the nuke.” It’s unclear where or at whom he’s suggesting the nuke be launched, or when he wants it to happen, but this is the same guy who kicked a dog in 2022, so nothing is safe.

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