In a recent essay in RealClearPolitics entitled “Main Street of the Realignment,” author Charles F. McElwee takes the reader on a tour of Pennsylvania where he delineates just where President-elect Donald Trump gained ground that proved enough for him to capture the Keystone State’s 19 electoral votes.
In reporting on historically Democratic Philadelphia, McElwee points out that in the city’s 114 majority Latino precincts, “Trump’s vote share grew from 6.1% in 2016 to 21.8% this year.”
But Trump scored his best performance in the city in a South Philadelphia ward, “where he earned nearly 74% of the vote from a heavily Italian electorate that had seen, in the [President Joe] Biden years, the boxing of a Christopher Columbus statue and the removal of a statue of Frank Rizzo, a still-revered former Democratic mayor.”
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