Fox News: In election victory, Trump’s gains went beyond the battlegrounds

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In election victory, Trump's gains went beyond the battlegrounds

President-elect Trump, in addition to flipping six uber-competitive battleground states, made significant gains across the board as he faced a surprisingly friendly electorate.......                    ...                        ...You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login flipped six highly competitive states in his election victory last week. But his gains with voters were not limited to the battlegrounds.......Trump improved his vote share across the country, starting with conservative areas but extending into deeply Democratic states.......It is a critical part of the story of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login one where Trump built a broader coalition and led on two defining issues of the campaign.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Trump gained in all seven of the battleground states. He gained 1.8 points in Michigan and Pennsylvania, 1.4 points in Georgia, just over a point in North Carolina, and under a point in Wisconsin.......(Trump's largest gains are currently in Nevada You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login two of ten states where there is significant vote left to count.)......But Trump's best performances relative to 2020 were in reliably Democratic states. These states voted for Democrats, but by narrower margins than before.......His strongest improvement was in New York, where the former and future president gained 6.4 points. ......His county-level gains were spread across the state, but notably included an improvement in all five of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login boroughs (where, again, there are some votes left to be counted).......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......He also posted a 5-point improvement in neighboring New Jersey, enough to reduce the margin of his loss to just 5.5 points. That is the best performance for a Republican candidate in more than three decades.......Look for You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login and Virginia (Trump +2.4 since 2020) to become a focal point in future elections, beginning with next year's gubernatorial races.......Trump also took more vote share in Illinois (Trump +4.2 since 2020); another Democratic state with a highly populated urban area.......And as some pre-election polls predicted, the president-elect brought home another five points worth of votes in Florida, where Democrats fought hard for a victory just two cycles ago.......Just as he improved in the battlegrounds and left-leaning states, he also put up strong gains in states like Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina and Idaho. Trump posted a 3-point improvement in all four of those conservative states, with smaller improvements in over a dozen more.......In fact, as of this writing, there isn't a single state in the country where Trump turned in a weaker performance than he did four years ago.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......So far, Harris has only outperformed President Biden's vote share in one state: Utah, where she gained 0.6 points since the last election.......But even You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login Trump also performed about a point better than he did in 2020. It's third party candidates who saw the most erosion. (And there are many ballots left to count.)......To find positives for Harris, you have to search for a smattering of counties across the nation.......The Vice President did between 2-9 points better in a few counties in the Georgia metropolitan area, led by Henry, Rockdale and Douglas.......She also improved in some of the North Carolina counties most impacted by Hurricane Helene, particularly Democratic-leaning Buncombe, but also Henderson and Transylvania. She posted about a 4-point gain in each.......Kaufman County, in the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login also bucked the national trend. That Texas county swung about 6 points towards Harris.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Harris posted a modest gain in Chaffee County, Colorado, otherwise known as the "Heart of the Rockies" (here, too, there are some outstanding ballots).......And there are signs that parts of Oregon and Washington could end up more Democratic than 2020 when counting is finished.......These are the exceptions to a clear rule: voters almost uniformly swung away from the Democrats this cycle.......The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login shows that Trump's gains came from multiple groups, and that voters preferred him on two defining issues.......As the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Trump's victory was powered by his strength on the economy and immigration – two of voters' top concerns. He was seen as a stronger leader than Harris in a time of turmoil, and voters remembered his presidency more fondly than their evaluations of the current administration. Trump ran up the score with his base while narrowing traditional Democratic advantages among Black, Hispanic, and young voters.......The complete You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login is available on FoxNews.com....

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