NBC data reporter Steve Kornacki said Wednesday that former President Donald Trump was able to move in favor of President Joe Biden in 2020 by closing the gap that Vice President Kamala Harris won in key voting groups and counties. He said he had turned around a battleground state.
Mr. Trump secured the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency early Wednesday after gaining support from both black and Hispanic voters in pre-election polls, thanks largely to the economy and immigration. Kornacki said President Trump has assembled a “diverse blue-collar coalition” to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris, citing Pennsylvania as an example. (Related article: 'It's not a pattern we've seen before': CNBC guest says '20 years ago' many Trump voters were Democrats)
“First of all, you talk about the suburbs. We talk about the suburbs in the Trump era, how they've become more Democratic, especially about the suburbs that have a high concentration of college degrees, high incomes, collars. I've spent an awful lot of time talking about the counties around Philadelphia,'' Kornacki said. “Actually, I’d like to introduce you to Montgomery County… It’s the largest of the colored counties in Philadelphia, and it fits the demographic description I just gave you. It’s an area where Democrats are making bigger and bigger gains. And Democrats went into tonight thinking that would continue.”
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“Biden won Montgomery by 26 points. If Harris wins tonight, that gap will close by four points,” Kornacki continued. “Again, Democrats are looking at this and saying it's going to go up even higher, probably closer to 30%, things like that. We saw this in Montgomery, We saw this in Chester, we saw this in Delaware County, we saw this in other states as well, these large suburban areas that are getting bluer and bluer. It didn't turn blue this time. Trump stopped sliding in such a place.
Vice President Kamala Harris has regained some support from Hispanic voters in pre-election polls since replacing Biden as the top Democratic candidate, but still fell short of Biden's numbers in the 2020 election. Ta. In Texas, Trump won with 57% of the vote in a 97% Hispanic county that has voted Democratic for more than 120 years. According to to the New York Post. (Click here to watch the Daily Caller documentary “Demand for Hate”)
“Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, we're also saying something else, I think the coalition that Trump has assembled here, the coalition that won, the blue-collar coalition, we're talking about it, we're talking about it. … By the end of the night, we had a much more diverse blue-collar coalition,” Kornacki said. “So what am I talking about there? We're talking about places like Luzerne County. This is where Wilkes-Barre is. This is Hazelton, Pennsylvania. Hazel Hazelton has one of the fastest growing Hispanic populations in all of Pennsylvania. At the beginning of this century, Hazelton's population was 5% Hispanic; today it is 70% Hispanic, the majority. A Dominican-American, Trump supported the town of Hazelton.”
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