Ten days before Election Day, Donald Trump was at Madison Square Garden — a controversial rally that perplexed pundits.
Why spend time in a blue state so close to Election Day? That visit paid off.
What You Need To Know
- Trump did better than he has in the previous two races in New York City
- He made inroads in immigrant communities in Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens
- Harris still won the five boroughs by double digits
Preliminary election results show the now president-elect has made inroads in deep, deep blue New York City.
Those results also show Kamala Harris won the city, with about 68% of the vote compared to Donald Trump’s 30%. But compare that to 2020, and Harris did not perform as well as Biden, who carried New York City with 76% of the vote.
A map by the CUNY Graduate Center shows both the 2024 and 2020 election results, red being where Trump won, blue where Biden won and purple is where Trump outperformed expectations.
The map shows South Brooklyn turning solidly red, and Trump making gains in much of Queens and some of the Bronx.
“It shows an almost citywide shift to one degree or another towards Trump,” said John Mollenkopf of the CUNY Graduate Center, who also directs its Center for Urban Research.
Earlier this year, Trump surprised some by holding a rally in the deep blue Bronx. That too may have been strategic.
Another map from CUNY shows where Trump gained the most in terms of share of the vote in Tuesday’s election. He made inroads in immigrant communities in central Queens and much of the Bronx.
“That shift was most pronounced in some of the Asian and Latino immigrant neighborhoods, particularly Dominicans in Washington Heights and the western Bronx, and also in the various Chinese and Indian neighborhoods in Queens in particular,” Mollenkopf said.
All told on Tuesday, Harris had about 573,000 fewer votes in New York City than Biden did four years earlier.
Trump gained more than 94,000 additional voters compared to his 202 performance in New York City.