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It was a grim night. All over, and here too. Kamala Harris took New York City as expected, but with a slightly smaller margin than what we saw for Democrats in the 2020 election. Harris received 68 percent of the city’s vote to Trump’s 30 percent with over 97 percent counted. This was a dip from previous years: Joe Biden won 76 percent in 2020 and Hillary Clinton won 79 percent in 2016.
Trump managed to turn the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens slightly more red than in previous years, seeing a 35 percent increase in support in the Bronx compared to 2020, a 20 percent increase in Manhattan, and a 16.5 percent increase in Queens. (Anecdotally, a colleague reported seeing a very contented-looking woman wearing a MAGA pin at a coffee shop on the Upper East Side this morning.) Unsurprisingly, Trump performed best in Staten Island, where he won 64 percent of the vote, and worst in Manhattan, where he won 17 percent of the vote.
There was some good news — the city voted overwhelmingly in favor of Proposal 1, the equal-rights amendment, which carried 77 percent of the vote. (The ballot is projected to pass with a statewide vote of 61 percent with 88 percent of votes counted.) But four of five of the “power grab” proposals put forward by an Eric Adams panel also passed, though by slimmer margins. We’ll know more as the day progresses, but that’s where we’re starting.
