What you didn’t hear about on election night: The other 43 states

Washington Examiner ^ | 11/6/24 | Michael Barone

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The pattern is clear, though the numbers may be slightly different when the final results are available. The state with the biggest Trump percentage increase was his native New York (6.9%), followed by California (5.6%), New Jersey (5.3%), Maryland (5.1%), Florida (5.0%), Illinois (4.9%), Connecticut (4.6%), and Texas (4.3%). They include the four highest-population states. All eight of them have large immigrant and Hispanic populations. The CNN exit poll reported that Trump lost Latino voters to Harris by only a 53 to 45% margin, a historic high percentage for a Republican and one that lays to rest Democratic analysts’ hopes that a rising percentage of “people of color” would provide their party with a permanent majority of the ascendant.

The gains are even more striking on Trump’s home turf. His percentage in the five boroughs of New York City rose by 8.3%, more than in any state, and in the four suburban counties (Nassau and Suffolk on Long Island and Westchester and Rockland up the Hudson), it rose by 9.3%.

Down around Mar-a-Lago, the Trump percentage in the three Florida Gold Coast counties (Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade) rose by 7.7%. The Gold Coast, long Florida’s Democratic stronghold, which gave Biden a 58 to 41% margin just four years ago, this year voted for Harris by only a 50 to 49% margin.

Trump’s majority coalition is yeastier and more demotic than the last Republican presidential majority in 2004. It has built on the Deep South majorities won by former President Ronald Reagan, has expanded former President George W. Bush’s breakthroughs in Greater Appalachia, and now, in 2024, has made its own gains among the descendants of the Ellis Island immigrants who remain in the Northeast and those who have slid down I-95 and I-85 to the South Atlantic.

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That was REAGAN’S WIN.

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