Kamala Harris’ apparent failure on election night appears to have hurt her in deep blue districts, including New York City.
Harris has obtained only 67.8% of the votes in the five districts of the Big Apple. While it may seem like a dominant performance, it is the worst for a Democrat since 1988.
Joe Biden won the city with 76% of the vote in 2020 and Hillary Clinton, who served the city in the Senate, won it with 79% in 2016. Harris’ disappointing numbers in New York were the worst since Michael Dukakis obtained 66.17% of the votes. vote compared to George HW Bush’s 32.82%.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has seen his vote grow from 18% in 2016 to a high of 30% in 2024 and Harris is only winning the state by 12 points, to Biden’s 23 points.
While Democrats openly mocked Donald Trump for holding a rally at Madison Square Garden nine days before the election, it appears the strategy has been somewhat beneficial for Republicans.
Kamala Harris’ election night failure appears to have affected her even in deeply blue districts, including New York City.
Harris has obtained only 67.8% of the votes in the five districts of the Big Apple. While it may seem like a dominant performance, it is the worst for a Democrat since 1988.
Even Senator Kirsten Gillibrand only wins by 17 points with 92% of the vote, a far cry from her 24-point victory in 2018.
All five boroughs have shown a decline since 2020, especially in the Queens borough.
Harris is winning only 62% of ‘The World’s Borough’, considered one of the most diverse counties in the United States. Biden took it with 72% in 2020.
The Bronx (83% for Biden and 73% for Harris), Brooklyn (76% to 72%), and Manhattan (86% to 82%) also saw drops from four years ago.
Meanwhile, on Staten Island, the city’s only Republican stronghold, Harris is winning just 35% of the vote compared to Biden’s 41%.
There seems to have been a drag on the deep blue candidates, including neighboring New Jersey.
Joe Biden won the state by 16 points in 2020 and no Republican has won the entire state since 1988.
Democrat Andy Kim managed to take Bob Menendez’s Senate seat by eight points.
While Democrats openly mocked Donald Trump for holding a rally at Madison Square Garden nine days before the election, it appears the strategy has been somewhat beneficial for Republicans.
Democrat Andy Kim managed to take Bob Menendez’s seat in the New Jersey Senate by eight points.
However, with 89% of the vote, Harris is winning the state by just four points, just slightly more than Governor Phil Murphy’s re-election margin in 2021.
While the state’s House delegation appears set to remain the same (eight Democrats to three Republicans), swing district challenger Sue Altman lost handily to Republican Tom Kean Jr.
In the Garden State’s 9th District, which is right next to New York City, Nellie Pou is winning just 51% of the vote, compared to 86% against Republican challenger Billy Prempeh.
Pou replaced Bill Pascrell, who died earlier this year and had held a seat in Congress since 1996, never won a re-election bid with less than 55% of the vote and usually polled between 60 and 70%.
In Passaic County, Trump is winning.
Passaic, a longtime Democratic stronghold, is just 38% white according to the 2020 census, with 42% Hispanic/Latino residents.
According to the Association of Religious Data Archives, Islam is the second most popular religion in the county, with more than 60,000 adherents.
Notably, Prempeh won the endorsement of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the only Republican in the state to win the pro-Palestinian group’s endorsement for his promise to advocate for a ceasefire in Gaza and an arms embargo on Israel. .
Voters watch the results of the 2024 US presidential election broadcast on a giant screen at Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan.
People attend the New York Young Republican Club viewing party
A night of worrying results continues for Democrats, who have already lost two seats in the Senate and will have difficulty taking back the House of Representatives.
It seems that even keeping these deep blue states, Trump is a heavy favorite to return to the White House.
Trump won support from Hispanics, traditionally Democratic voters, and from low-income households who have deeply felt the impact of price increases since the last 2020 presidential election, according to Edison exit polls.
Trump won 45 percent of Hispanic voters nationwide, trailing Harris with 53 percent, but up 13 percentage points from 2020.
Voters whose primary issue was the economy voted overwhelmingly for Trump, especially if they felt they were worse off financially than they were four years ago.
About 31 percent of voters said the economy was their top issue.
And 45 percent of voters nationwide said their family’s financial situation was worse today than it was four years ago.
Trump was winning a higher share of the vote than he did four years ago in nearly every corner of the country, from suburban Georgia to rural Pennsylvania.
As of 11 p.m., officials had nearly completed counting votes in more than 1,200 counties, about a third of the country, and Trump’s turnout was up about 2 percentage points compared to 2020.
