Kamala Harris’ election night flop appears to have affected her even in deep blue districts, including New York City.
Harris won just 67.8% of the vote in the Big Apple’s five boroughs. While that may seem like a dominant performance, it is the worst performance for a Democrat since 1988.
Joe Biden won the city with 76% of the vote in 2020 and Hillary Clinton – who served New York State in the Senate – won the city with 79% in 2016.
Harris’s disappointing numbers in New York were the worst since Michael Dukakis received 66.17% of the vote, compared to George HW Bush’s 32.82%.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, has seen his vote grow from 18% in 2016 to a high watermark of 30% in 2024, and Harris only wins the state by 12 points, compared to 23 points for Biden.
Kamala Harris’ election night flop appears to have affected her even in deep blue districts, including New York City
Harris won just 67.8% of the vote in the Big Apple’s five boroughs. While that may seem like a dominant performance, it is the worst performance for a Democrat since 1988
While Democrats openly mocked Trump for holding a rally at Madison Square Garden nine days before the election, it appears the strategy has been somewhat beneficial to Republicans.
Even Senator Kirsten Gillibrand wins by just 17 points with 92% of the vote, a far cry from her 24-point victory in 2018.
The five boroughs all showed declines from 2020, especially in the Queens borough. Harris wins just 62% of “The World’s Borough,” considered one of the most diverse counties in America. Biden took it with 72% in 2020.
The Bronx (83% for Biden to 73% for Harris), Brooklyn (76% to 72%) and Manhattan (86% to 82%) also saw declines compared to four years ago.
Meanwhile, in Staten Island, the city’s only Republican stronghold, Harris wins just 35% of the vote, compared to 41% for Biden.
There also seems to be a brake on the candidates in deep blue, neighboring New Jersey.
Joe Biden won the state by 16 points in 2020 and no Republican has won statewide since 1988.
Democrat Andy Kim has won Bob Menendez’s Senate seat by eight points.
While Democrats openly mocked Donald Trump for holding a rally at Madison Square Garden nine days before the election, it appears the strategy has been somewhat beneficial to Republicans.
Democrat Andy Kim has captured Bob Menendez’s Senate seat in New Jersey by eight points
However, with 89% of the vote, Harris wins the Empire State by just four points, only slightly more than Governor Phil Murphy’s non-2021 re-election margin.
Although the House delegation appears to remain the same (eight Democrats to three Republicans), swing district hopeful Sue Altman lost handily to Republican Tom Kean Jr.
In the Garden State’s 9th district, right next to New York City, Nellie Pou wins only 51% of the vote, including 86% against Republican challenger Billy Prempeh.
Pou replaced Bill Pascrell, who died earlier this year and had held a seat in Congress since 1996. He never won a re-election bid with less than 55% of the vote and typically polled somewhere between 60 and 70%.
Trump wins in Passaic County.
Passaic, a longtime Democratic stronghold, is only 38% white, with 42% Hispanic/Latino residents, according to the 2020 census.
According to the Association of Religion Data Archives, Islam is the second most popular religion in the province, with more than 60,000 congregants.
Prempeh notably received the support of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the only Republican in the state to receive the backing of the pro-Palestinian group for his pledge to stand up for a ceasefire in Gaza and an arms embargo against Israel.
Voters watch the results of the 2024 US presidential election broadcast on a giant screen in Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan
People attend the New York Young Republican Club viewing party
It remains a night of troubling results for Democrats, who have already lost two seats in the Senate and will struggle to win back the House of Representatives.
It appears that even if he keeps these deep blue states, Trump is heavily favored to return to the White House.
Trump won support from Hispanics, traditionally Democratic voters, and from lower-income households that have sharply felt the sting of price increases since the last presidential election in 2020, Edison exit polls show.
Trump won 45 percent of Hispanic voters nationally, followed by Harris with 53 percent, but an increase of 13 percentage points from 2020.
Voters whose main issue was the economy voted overwhelmingly for Trump, especially if they felt they were worse off financially than they were four years ago.
About 31 percent of voters said the economy was their biggest problem.
And 45 percent of voters nationwide said their family’s financial situation is worse today than it was four years ago.
Trump earned a larger share of the vote than he did four years ago in nearly every corner of the country, from suburban Georgia to rural Pennsylvania.
By 11 p.m., officials had nearly completed their vote counting in more than 1,200 counties, about a third of the country, and Trump’s share was up about 2 percentage points compared to 2020.