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Accessibility statementSkip to main content Democracy Dies in Darkness SubscribeSign in Advertisement Democracy Dies in Darkness PoliticsBiden administration The Fix The Briefs Polling Democracy in America Election 2024 PoliticsBiden administration The Fix The Briefs Polling Democracy in America Election 2024 OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE PEOPLE IN NEW YORK WHO SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP New York City gave Trump more votes in 2020 than all but three U.S. counties. Analysis by Philip Bump National columnist May 22, 2024 at 4:40 p.m. EDT Donald Trump departs after visiting Sanaa Convenient Store in Manhattan on April 16. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Listen 4 min Share Comment on this storyComment185 Add to your saved stories Save One of the lines of argument used by Donald Trump and his supporters to attack the criminal trial that’s underway in Manhattan is that no jury in such a pro-Democratic place could possibly be fair. As jury selection was underway in the trial, which is likely to go to a jury next week, Trump’s allies studiously pored over available biographical details to suggest that the jury pool’s politics sat somewhere between Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Che Guevara. Cut through the 2024 election noise. Get The Campaign Moment newsletter. Skip to end of carousel SIGN UP FOR THE HOW TO READ THIS CHART NEWSLETTER Subscribe to How to Read This Chart, a weekly dive into the data behind the news. Each Saturday, national columnist Philip Bump makes and breaks down charts explaining the latest in economics, pop culture, politics and more. End of carousel But, of course, this is in tension with another central motivation for Trump and his allies: presenting him as remarkably popular and well-regarded. So when Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. appeared on former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon’s podcast earlier this week, he presented the scale of Trump support in the city as though it was an underground resistance movement. “When I’m in New York, the amount of people who show support is actually huge,” Trump Jr. said. “But they do it like this” — he held up his hands to illustrate — “like, it’s like a thumbs-up, like, hidden under their jacket so no one else can possibly see.” Advertisement Story continues below advertisement It is amusing that the only people Trump has seen do this are apparently people wearing jackets — presumably sport coats, given how nice the weather has been in the city in recent weeks. But it is not surprising. The 74 million votes Trump received in 2020 came heavily from big cities where lots of people live, however likely those cities were to prefer Joe Biden’s candidacy. Follow Election 2024 Follow We can illustrate the distribution of Trump votes by looking at the total number of votes he received in each of the 3,000-plus U.S. counties. The fewest votes he received came in Loving County, Tex., where he won 60 of the 66 votes cast. The most he received in a county? His 1.1 million in Los Angeles County — good enough for just over a quarter of all votes cast. The five boroughs of New York (five individual counties) all provided Trump with at least 67,000 votes. The fewest came in the Bronx, where he got 67,740 votes. The most came in Queens, the county where he was born, where he got nearly 213,000. Even that low total in the Bronx, though, was more votes than he got in 92 percent of U.S. counties. In Manhattan, where the trial is underway, Trump’s 85,000 votes are more than he got in 94 percent of counties. In New York City overall, the total Trump vote was larger than all but three counties: those housing L.A., Phoenix and Houston. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement In fact, Trump lost all 23 counties where he got the most votes in 2020. In those counties, he won 10.6 million votes, about 14 percent of his total. He lost the counties by an average of 18 percentage points. Let’s use 100,000 votes as the dividing line. Trump won about three-fifths of his votes in counties where he got fewer than that number of votes; in two-thirds of those counties, he won by at least 25 points. He lost two-thirds of counties where he got more than 100,000 votes, but still got 2 out of every 5 votes he won in those places. As we noted in December 2020, Trump got more votes in states he lost than in states he won. So, yeah, it’s not hard to believe that there are Trump supporters in Trump Jr.’s vicinity, particularly given the likelihood that younger Trump spends more time among sympathetic people than antagonistic ones. It is somewhat hard to believe that all these guys are trying to hide their thumbs-ups in their sports coats, though. When Donald Trump visited a bodega in upper Manhattan a few weeks ago, there was a boisterous crowd there to welcome him. In fairness, it is possible that Trump Jr.’s experience of sheepishness is skewed by his spending time in one particular part of the city: the area around Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. In the precinct that houses Trump’s former home, two-thirds of voters preferred Joe Biden. ELECTION 2024 Get the latest news on the 2024 election from our reporters on the campaign trail and in Washington. Who is running? President Biden and Donald Trump secured their parties’ nominations for the presidency. Here’s how we ended up with a Trump-Biden rematch again. Key dates and events: From January to June, voters in all states and U.S. territories will pick their party’s nominee for president ahead of the summer conventions. Here are key dates and events on the 2024 election calendar. Abortion and the election: Voters in about a dozen states could decide the fate of abortion rights with constitutional amendments on the ballot in a pivotal election year. Biden supports legal access to abortion, and he has encouraged Congress to pass a law that would codify abortion rights nationwide. After months of mixed signals about his position, Trump said the issue should be left to states. Here’s how Biden’s and Trump’s abortion stances have shifted over the years. Show more Share 185 Comments NewsletterWeekdays Early Brief The Washington Post's essential guide to power and influence in D.C. Sign up Subscribe to comment and get the full experience. Choose your plan → Advertisement Advertisement live updatespolitics11:53 PM ANALYSIS: OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE PEOPLE IN NEW YORK WHO SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP 11:42 PMCalifornia official will mobilize voters in Arizona and Nevada to help Biden 10:52 PMJudge in Los Angeles case pushes back Hunter Biden tax trial from June to September 10:23 PMAnalysis: Biden’s base isn’t as freaked out as he might want them to be TOP STORIES Politics Reporting and analysis from the Hill and the White House Down-ballot Democrats work to boost Biden with updraft coattails: ‘We push him’ Election 2024 latest news: Biden to welcome Kenyan president; Trump trial on hiatus Opinion|Alito and Thomas haven’t recused. 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