New York to San Francisco, Florida to Texas: Red Wave Sweeps America
A rightward shift across demographic groups and geographies powered Trump’s decisive victory and keeps Capitol Hill stacked with his allies.
Donald Trump during his closing campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Nov. 5.
Photographer: Sarah Rice/BloombergFrom New York to the Rio Grande Valley, across big cities like Miami and San Francisco, in college towns and subdivision-dotted exurbs, the US electorate this year shifted unmistakably rightward.
You can see it if you zoom in on a place like Robeson County, North Carolina, a majority-minority county with the state’s largest Native American population, which swung 9 points toward Donald Trump. You can see it if you zoom out, with the reliably blue state of New Jersey favoring Kamala Harris by just 5 points only four years after President Joe Biden won it in a 16-point rout.