From New Jersey to Hawaii, Trump made inroads in surprising places in his path to the White House

[Omaha Steve]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-democratic-states-blue-states-346dbbd11111f9558b69ed137321c630

By MIKE CATALINI, PHILIP MARCELO, AUDREY McAVOY, HUMERA LODHI and PARKER KAUFMANN
Updated 7:37 AM CST, November 16, 2024

TOTOWA, N.J. (AP) — Patrons at Murph’s Tavern are toasting not just Donald Trump’s return to the presidency but the fact that he carried their northern New Jersey county, a longtime Democratic stronghold in the shadow of New York City.

To Maria Russo, the woman pouring the drinks, the reasons behind Trump’s win were as clear in the runup to the election as the shot glasses lined up on the high-top tables. A mother raising two kids on her own in Passaic County on a barkeep’s income, she saw it not just in light of her own situation but those of the people around her.

“Anybody can see what’s going on, you know? The prices of everything. And me being a single mom?” she said. “I notice that when I go shopping – just like everybody else does.”

Although Trump’s win once again reflected a deep political divide across the United States, he made inroads in surprising places. From the suburbs of New Jersey to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s New York City congressional district to reliably liberal Hawaii, Trump gained ground even as support for Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, dropped off.

[yardwork]

1. Trump made a lot of promises. What happens when he doesn't deliver?

A lot of Trump voters expect prices to plummet his first day in office. Will they? Or will he blame the Democrats again?

[kerouac2]

2. Her financial well being is likely going to get worse

There are so many things that people take for granted or don't even know about that they benefit from. from free school breakfast and lunch to health care. And they go and support a party he'll bent on getting rid of those things.

[Scrivener7]

3. Oh, ffs. We're back to interviewing trumpers in diners. And they're

regaling us with tales of their economic insecurity.

And when he truly trashes the economy, as he did before and inevitably will do again, suddenly the economy won't matter to them at all.

They didn't even bother to revise the 2016 script.

[tanyev]

5. Yeah, the "liberal" media never goes back to follow up with any of these people

once the s**t starts hitting the fan.

[Hugin]

8. They can interview each other in the ox cart on the way...

To the camp.

[orwell]

6. If he trashes "the economy"...

...it will be Biden's fault.

If the economy stays the same it will suddenly be "great again."

If the economy improves it will be all the Rapist's brilliant policies.

We are in the "post Truth" regime...and it obviously works.

[oasis]

4. That dizzy bar twit and her pals excuse Trump's

multitude of transgressions because of the price of eggs. Those tavern dimwits never bothered to listen to anything other than Fox News.

[Jrsygrl96]

7. Sad and disgusted

This is practically in my own backyard. The reason Passaic County went red was because of the large Latino population in the city of Paterson, not far from that pub in Totowa. And they are going to get a rude awakening very soon! 45/47 got the Latino women because of religion and the Latino men because of machismo. They all just shot themselves in the foot, but luckily they live in the blue state of NJ where Murphy did an awesome job through Covid. If we can keep the governorship Democratic, we may survive better than others.