A 1,400-County Crisis for Democrats

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s conventional wisdom that President Trump has transformed American politics. But a new county-by-county voting analysis from The New York Times of the last four presidential races shows just how drastically Mr. Trump has changed the electoral map. Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The Times, explains why the trends are a five-alarm fire for the Democrats and discusses the debate within the party over what to do about it.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Mubaro. This is the Daily.
0:13.0	It's now conventional wisdom that Donald Trump has transformed American politics,
0:18.3	but a county-by-county voting analysis from the Times, covering the last four presidential
0:24.7	races, shows just how drastically Trump has changed the electoral map.
0:31.9	Today, the reporter who conducted that analysis, Shane Goldmacher,
0:41.8	on why it's a five-alarm fire for the Democrats and the debate within the party over what to do about it.
1:00.2	It's Tuesday, June 3rd.
1:08.2	Hey there.
1:08.9	Is it count?
1:10.4	Very well. I appreciate that tie.
1:11.6	Thank you.
1:12.6	It's just for you.
1:13.6	I really shows up on audio.
1:16.6	I think people can hear, they can hear the constriction.
1:20.6	That there's a tie?
1:21.6	And the formality.
1:22.6	Yeah.
1:23.6	Okay.
1:24.6	Let's get started.
1:25.6	Shane, always a pleasure.
1:26.6	Thank you for having me. So you're officially
1:30.3	on what I would think of as the, what went wrong with the Democrats beat. Democrats in disarray
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