2024-12-03
13 分钟Good morning.
It's Tuesday, December 3rd.
I'm Sumita Basu.
This is Apple News today.
On today's show, how a boy who brought a stuffed bunny to school ended up in handcuffs.
Major new developments in Syria's years long, somewhat dormant civil war.
And a few ideas on how to give back on this Giving Tuesday.
But first, a look at just how much this country has shifted to the right since Trump's first term in office.
According to a recent New York times analysis, nearly 90% of counties in America moved to the right in this last election.
It's a remarkable shift with all 50 states moving some degree to the right.
And one place where Trump made significant gains was deep blue New York City.
Now, to be clear, Kamala Harris handily won both the city and the state overall,
But Trump won 30% of votes cast in the city.
That's 7 points higher than in 2020 and the biggest share of votes won by a Republican in New York since 1988.
And it's worth zooming in more to understand where those gains were coming from.
As you look closer, it wasn't really where the media class or the elite wing of the Democratic Party resides.
It was actually in the most multiethnic, working class neighborhoods in New York.
Simon Van Zylen Wood is a features writer for New York Magazine,
and he tracked Donald Trump's rising popularity in New York City after the election.
Nationally, blue collar voters of every ethnicity drifted right.