Trump's Gains and the Dems' Losses in NYC
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Laird on WNYC, let's talk about New York City and the election now. |
| 0:14.8 | Harris won in the city by a lot, to be sure. |
| 0:17.7 | But with us are John Campbell, Albany Reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, and Ariasundrum, |
| 0:23.6 | WNYC and Gothamist reporter covering race and immigration. They co-wrote an article on Gothamist |
| 0:28.8 | called Donald Trump made games throughout New York City as Dem margins, Democrats' margins, |
| 0:35.4 | plummeted. Hi, Ariah, hi, John. Hello, thanks for having me. |
| 0:39.0 | Hi, Brian. So your article includes the stat that Harris's margin of victory over Trump in the |
| 0:45.6 | city was 16 points less than Joe Biden's margin four years ago. You can decide who wants to start on this general stat. But what were those |
| 0:56.8 | margins citywide in each case before we go into the really specific groups or areas of the city |
| 1:02.9 | where there was the most change? Yeah, Brian, I'll take that one. And it is, it's a pretty |
| 1:08.8 | stunning look, honestly. I mean, you're right. |
| 1:11.5 | Harris won big. |
| 1:12.9 | There's no if, ands or but about that in New York City. |
| 1:17.0 | I mean, she got about 67, 68% of the vote to Donald Trump's 30% of the vote. |
| 1:23.7 | Now, that's a 37 point gap. |
| 1:26.1 | That's a strong gap. But it's less strong when you take |
| 1:30.3 | into account that New York City is six to one Democratic. So in 2020, Joe Biden took home 76% of |
| 1:37.6 | the vote to Trump's 22, 23% of the vote. That's a 53% gap. So that's where you get that 16 point change in the margin. |
| 1:46.1 | That's a big difference. And it happened in every single borough. Every borough moved to the |
| 1:51.4 | right. Now, that is in line with a national trend. I mean, most counties throughout the state, |
| 1:57.6 | I'm sorry, through the country shifted to the right, but it's a little stunning in New York |
| 2:02.8 | City, which is heavily, heavily democratic. So are your report, your report that Trump narrowed his |
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