As Donald Trump shifts his focus toward a second term in the White House, the extraordinary statistics of his 2024 election victory are still emerging.
On his way to becoming president-elect, he won all seven swing states in which coins were supposed to be tossed.
Black and Hispanic voters turned out in droves to back Trump, and the Republican candidate saw an increase in support in 49 of the 50 states.
The Democratic civil war over who was to blame for the defeat will continue until the party begins considering its 2028 presidential candidates.
But as the dust settles, DailyMail.com has broken down two sets of statistics that show just how dominant Trump’s victory was, even in places where he seemed certain to lose support.
Did ‘migrants eating pets’ claims hurt Trump in the county centered on the allegations?
It was a comment during his debate with Kamala Harris that some feared could hurt his electoral chances.
But it turns out that Trump’s accusation that Haitian immigrants were eating dogs and cats didn’t hurt him at the polls, especially in the county where he claimed it was happening.
DailyMail.com has crunched the numbers to reveal that the president-elect actually garnered support in Clark County, home to the city of Springfield.
The normally quiet community has seen an influx of immigrants in the past year and was rocked by Republican claims about animal consumption, which rose to the top of the list.
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In the run-up to the presidential election, Trump sparked fury by claiming that Haitian immigrants living in Springfield were stealing dogs and cats for food.
His incendiary comments left the city in suspense, with locals warning that bullets would fly due to tensions stoked by anti-immigrant rhetoric sweeping social media.
In his landslide victory, Trump stormed home with a 30-point lead over Kamala Harris in Clark County, home to about 130,000 people and the city of Springfield.
He won 64.2 percent of the vote, up from 60.8 percent in his 2020 matchup with Joe Biden.
The swing of 3.5 points only manifested itself in 600 additional votes.
But Democrats lost 2,500 voters in Clark County, a trend that was mirrored across the country and catapulted Trump to victory.
In a DailyMail.com poll conducted with JL Partners before the election, most voters considered Trump’s comments about immigrants to be the biggest mistake of his campaign.
Donald Trump said during the debate with Kamala Harris in September: “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs.” The people who came in are eating the cats.
The comments in the run-up to the presidential election sparked a furor in Springfield, Ohio.
His incendiary comments left the city (pictured heading to the polls) on edge, with locals warning that bullets would fly due to tensions stoked by anti-immigrant rhetoric sweeping social media.
Of the 1,000 voters asked what the Republican candidate’s biggest mistake was, they pointed to the moment in the September debate when he said, “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs.” The people who came in are eating the cats.
“They are eating, they are eating the pets of the people who live there.”
Harris laughed in response and that sparked a furious response from the White House and Democrats, calling it “dangerous rhetoric.”
While claims about pet consumption proved unfounded, Springfield officials admitted they were struggling with the influx of Haitian immigrants.
Health officials on the ground said unfounded and sensational rumors about immigrants have obscured the very real strain that hospitals and clinics have felt after between 12,000 and 15,000 Haitian immigrants arrived in the city over the past five years, bringing which increased its population by 25 percent in the last three years. .
It became a flashpoint for the immigration debate that became a focal point of Trump’s campaign.
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In what has been widely called the biggest political comeback in history, Trump convinced millions of reliably Democratic groups to switch allegiances.
Trump flipped 11 counties in the seven swing states during his remarkable run, in which the United States was swept by a “red tsunami.”
More than half were among the poorest in their state.
Jefferson County in Georgia, where the median household income is $30,000 below the state average, saw the biggest shift to the right, turning a seven percent Republican deficit in 2020 into a 1.4 percent majority this time.
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The three counties Trump won in North Carolina also fell well below the median income mark. They were Pasquotank, Anson and Nash counties.
Anson had the fourth-lowest revenue growth among the 90 counties nationwide that went Republican, raising just $2,200 between 2020 and 2022, according to the census.
Arizona’s Maricopa and Pennsylvania’s Erie proved pre-election pollsters right in helping Trump send shockwaves around the world.
Erie is in the bottom half of median income statewide, with an estimated one in seven people living in poverty.
Maricopa, meanwhile, enjoys the second-highest median household income of the state’s swing counties at $80,675, marginally behind Washoe County, Nevada ($81,531).
Of all the counties in the country that changed, Nassau County in New York saw the largest increase in median income between 2020 and 2022: approximately $17,673.
There, Trump turned a 9.5 percent win for Joe Biden into a 4.9 percent win in 2024, even though the area is the richest district in the state.
Only one county regressed between 2020 and 2022 in terms of median household income: Issaquena, Mississippi, known as the least populated county east of the Mississippi River in the entire country.
Here, the median household income fell $10,433 to $17,900.
The wealthiest Democrats, in households earning more than $100,000 a year, turned out stronger for Harris than for Biden in 2020.
But among lower-income households, who make up about 60 percent of voters, the GOP posted a double-digit gain of 12 points.
The exit poll at the close of polls on Nov. 5 showed how important dollars and cents in the pockets are to American voters.
More than a third of voters nationally (35 percent) ranked the “state of democracy” as the most important factor in their decision to vote, and 81 percent of these voters sided with Harris.
However, the second most important issue for voters was the economy, and among this group, Trump won 79 percent of the vote.
