In 2016, it was the revenge of the white working-class voter and the forgotten American. Hillary Clinton also failed to realize she was bleeding with a crucial voter group until it was too late. Yet, Trump lost the popular vote, which gave woke leftists and far-left loons a crutch to make their case that identitarian politics, transanity, and other whacko action items should remain front and center of Democrats’ messaging to voters. The 2022 midterms brought the red mirage, where pollsters oversampled Republicans, leading to an epic underperformance by Republicans in what was supposed to be a tsunami cycle. When polls showed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in trouble, or at the very least not where they should be against a man liberals view as Satan incarnate, they leaned on the midterms.
Any political analyst knows a midterm election and a presidential contest are two different beasts, which led to adding another layer of density to this liberal academic bubble where reality and facts don’t exist. Liberals thought Florida was in play, and Kamala would win it. Yet, it’s the Trump supporter who is ignorant. No, it’s the American liberal who is the true mental invalid, too stupid to differentiate what is a bad idea and too condescending and self-righteous to admit total and complete defeat. For these liberals, they needn’t look far regarding where Trump made his most significant gains. It’s right in their wealthy enclaves.
Steve Kornacki on MSNBC is highlighting a profound transformation: Trump has reshaped the Republican Party, pulling support from unexpected places and reconfiguring traditional Democratic bases in ways that no other Republican has done in decades. pic.twitter.com/qvcPpSw3gd
— Shermichael Singleton (@MrShermichael) November 10, 2024
That’s right—Trump ran up the score in rural America, but his most extensive and, for now, where he made his decisive gains was in America's rich, urban, and suburban areas. The MAGA tsunami washed ashore and breached these liberal enclaves. If true, what a repudiation of the Democratic Party. If it holds, we’re talking Republican rule for the foreseeable future, at least through 2028 (via WaPo) [emphasis mine]:
Donald Trump won more votes than he had before almost everywhere in the United States. Voters shifted right in rural areas, in suburbs and even in New York City. But it’s the urban areas that should unnerve Democrats most. These places are led by liberal mayors and city councils. They are diverse, and they are economically powerful.
Take a look at America’s 50 biggest local economies (as measured by GDP in 2022). In 2020, Trump won only one of them. In 2024, he took nine and made significant gains in nearly all of them. He flipped Miami, Phoenix (Maricopa County), Orange County, Calif. (near Los Angeles) and Nassau County, N.Y., on Long Island. It was the best showing in urban areas for a Republican since 2004. His gains reversed an urban shift toward Democrats that had seemed locked in since the Obama years.
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While Trump is known for his appeal in left-behind parts of America, in this election, voters in the wealthiest places made the biggest shift toward Republicans.
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Democrats lost 3.7 percent of American voters overall compared with 2020, and they lost 4.2 percent of those who live in areas where the median household income is over $105,000.
What happened? In large part, the shift reflects how much voters hate inflation. Across all income groups, they registered their frustration with the economy under President Joe Biden.
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Urban areas with large non-White populations seem to have felt the most frustration. Much has been written about how Hispanic men were drawn to Trump in this election. But in cities, there’s more to it than that. The data suggests that urban, non-White, working-class people have been turning away from Democrats and increasingly voting Republican for the past few election cycles.
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As the chart below shows, major metropolitan counties with a large share of non-White voters shifted more toward Trump than more heavily White urban areas did.
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So, it’s not so much white working-class voter revenge but the uprising of nonwhites against the increasing ideological rigidity and condescension from white progressives, who are way out of step with every normal voter group in America. That is, nonwhites and whites who aren’t woke see racial progress but know more needs to be done. They recognize progress; they know Jim Crow is dead. The white progressive, self-righteous, overeducated, and totally insane, sees America as Apartheid South Africa, which is way outside the mainstream. This cohort controls the messaging and agenda-setting of the Democratic Party. The lexicon used in the college faculty lounge is not America—that’s partially why Trump clinched the popular vote in this MAGA landslide, besides the economic anxiety and frustration with inflation. Democrats thought abortion and ‘saving democracy' would drive them to a landslide win. it gutted them instead. Also, Trump won the voter group who said ‘democracy is very threatened.’
Youyou Zhou and Heather Long, who wrote this autopsy, ended it with a warning: “If Democrats can’t again appeal to non-White and working-class voters in cities, this election may signal the start of a long deterioration in the party’s voter base.”
And thus far, Democrats haven’t learned a thing. Princeton Professor Eddie Glaude, everyone:
The hits keep on coming. You can actually feel the country move the right 3 more inches after watching @esglaude say we're all racists and this had nothing to do with the economy.
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) November 9, 2024
"I don't believe that!" pic.twitter.com/rMuHe4Ta0X
The impact of the MAGA wave reached down ticket and even state legislature races, where Michigan Democrats lost their full grip on the state legislature. Gov. Tim Walz might lose control of the Minnesota House. In New Jersey, where Kamala only won by five points, there were massive swings to Trump, who won Atlantic County, a first for a Republican since 1988. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s district in New York also saw a 24-point swing to Trump.
Allentown, PA (54% Hispanic)
— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) November 6, 2024
2016: D+41
2020: D+35
2024: D+23
Hazleton, PA (62% Hispanic)
2016: D+5
2020: R+11
2024: R+25
WATCH: MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasts the Democrat Party:
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) November 6, 2024
"Democrats only won in Illinois by 4 points, only won in New Jersey by 5 points, bleeding support in New York. ... It's bad, not just for Kamala Harris... But the bigger problem with Democrats is nationwide... only 32% of… pic.twitter.com/m07fsn9d8s
15% swing right in Middlesex county, NJ (New/North/East/South Brunswicks, Edison, Piscataway, Woodbridge)
— umichvoter 🏳️🌈 (@umichvoter) November 6, 2024
Huge Asian population here
Went from Biden 60-38 to Harris 52-45 pic.twitter.com/HdLh3hQq8d
Harris is on track for the worst performance in New York City since 1992.
— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) November 6, 2024
Just an absolutely unreal graphic showing Trump's gains in Texas-Mexico border counties since 2016. Starr County, population 65,920 and 97% Latino, shifted 75 PERCENTAGE POINTS in Trump's direction. https://t.co/VqI1MUPmiv pic.twitter.com/ghdu2yoAt8
— Matthew Watkins (@MWatkinsTrib) November 7, 2024
If you had Trump improving on his '20 performance by more in Aspen, Nantucket, Fairfax and Manhattan than in Flint, Erie or Wausau (I didn't), congrats.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 10, 2024
Trump won the city of Clifton, NJ, where the Latino population has roughly doubled over the past 20 years. Biden won by 19 points in 2020. Clinton won by 23 points in 2016. Obama won by 26 points in 2012 pic.twitter.com/ABlVzAfCbK
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 10, 2024
Donald Trump won a precinct in Manhattan’s Chinatown! pic.twitter.com/R7jaQZcivs
— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) November 10, 2024
Kamala Harris received 10% fewer votes than Joe Biden in Wilmington, DE, where her campaign headquarters was nominally located
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 10, 2024
Says it all. https://t.co/iQIbvGgGD2
— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) November 10, 2024
Chicago has its first MAGA ward. Trump convincingly won the 41st Ward with 54%. This is the first time a Chicago ward has voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1992. #Electiontwitter #twill pic.twitter.com/K13hZ1kugd
— Frank Calabrese (@FrankCalabrese) November 9, 2024
Worst. HitIer. Ever. pic.twitter.com/rH6fqUBLhI
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 8, 2024
Passaic, NJ is a city that's 74% Latino, 15% Orthodox Jewish, and 7% black:
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 8, 2024
🔵2008: Obama +22
🔵2012: Obama +28
🔵2016: Hillary +22
🔵2020: Biden +16
🔴2024: Trump +3
Rich white folks in Manhattan being told they need to vote democratic to protect poor minority communities in queens & the bronx that are enthusiastically voting Trump is not a stable dynamic. https://t.co/GJN0maMLTE pic.twitter.com/ZOSVZuEcvf
— Blue (@Blueelectron4) November 7, 2024
The number of raw votes received by Trump in the Bronx, NYC, increased by at least 142% compared to 2016. In Queens, a 66% increase. In Manhattan, a 59% increase. In Brooklyn, a 56% increase. In Staten Island, a 23% increase
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 9, 2024
Republicans gain control of Michigan State House, ending Democratic trifecta
— NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) November 7, 2024
Republicans in Vermont are having an incredible night.
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) November 6, 2024
Governor won re-election
Flipped the Lt. Gov office
Flipped 5 State Senate seats
Flipped 18 State House seats.
Most seats in the legislature since 2002
Not to pour salt on a wound... but it looks like Tim Walz lost control of the Minnesota State House.
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) November 6, 2024
Republicans are leading in 68 seats to Democrats 66.
Pennsylvania Republicans won every statewide election in 2024.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 7, 2024
President, Senate, Attorney General, Auditor General, and Treasurer.
W O W.
Republicans won the governor’s race in Puerto Rico https://t.co/KCEcWfvGwo
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) November 6, 2024
Trump is the first Republican to win Atlantic County, NJ since George H. W. Bush in 1988. That year Bush won the county by 13 points. In 2012, Obama won by 17 points. Harris will receive about 20% fewer votes than Biden 2020 pic.twitter.com/15oq1jqvIt
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 11, 2024
The evidence of MAGA being the majority is everywhere. Democrats need to understand it to win again. Let’s hope they don’t because these voters are definitionally the swinging type. Liberal America is too awash with snobs, bigots, and all-around morons to turn this around right now.
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