Trump’s urban myth: No, Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta and Philadephia didn’t produce suspiciously high Joe Biden returns
By MICHAEL TRACEY NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 05, 2020 AT 5:30 PM
Biden significantly outperformed Clinton in Dallas-Fort Worth.
But when viewed in totality, the results completely undermine the idea that Biden’s alleged “over-performance” was centralized in those four swing-state hotspots.
Again by any conceivable metric, Biden over-performed Clinton in the following metropolitan areas: Jacksonville, Houston, Austin, Boston, Buffalo, Washington, D.C.., Phoenix, Omaha, Indianapolis, Denver, Nashville, Raleigh, Seattle and Anchorage. And there are more. But you won’t hear much about them, because it wouldn’t be conducive to any frantic, retweetable talking points.
Ironically, the vigor with which it has been promoted diminishes and obfuscates what was really an impressive achievement by Trump: He is the one who generally “overperformed” in the inner-city areas that have been the primary target of his miasma of fraud claims.
Even New York City backs this up. After finally getting around to releasing their full results last week a full month after the election, we’ve learned that Trump’s raw vote total increased by 79% in the Bronx, of all places. Indeed, Trump over-performed relative to 2016 more in the Bronx than any other borough, while his margin decreased only in Staten Island. That should be liable to make some pundit heads spin.
Where Trump did get swamped, pretty much everywhere in the country, was the affluent suburbs, especially in fast-growing metropolitan areas.
There’s no doubt that leverage in the Democratic Party coalition has increasingly transitioned into these well-to-do suburbs, which has all sorts of implications going forward in terms of governance and political strategy. Ted Cruz might be a tad premature in declaring the GOP “the party of the working class,” but there’s something to if you look at the overall trendlines: In each of the 10 wealthiest counties in the U.S. by median household income, there was a hefty shift to Biden from 2016.
Glance at the counties along the southern border, and you’ll find extraordinary Hispanic-fueled shifts to Trump almost everywhere.
So Trump lost votes in red counties and gained votes in blue counties.
Or: Dominion flipped votes in red counties and four democrat strongholds stopped counting in the middle of the night so they could figure out how many votes they needed to finish the steal
Again, it makes absolutely no sense that Trump made gains in every demographic except white males, who betrayed him in favor of a political party that openly despises them.
I saw what the middle-aged normies knew the other day, too. Even the normie republicans believe the lies since they're bombarded by the newspapers and other MSM entities.
Saw younger Republicans (early 20s) decide to vote Biden too, and they were amazed and disgusted by Trump and could never have before imagined voting for a democrat. Their news? Again, MSM; oh and these ones are either in college or places like dental school so of course, we know they're being fed a lot of crap for years on end in the university systems.