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A hard core Democrat city that Trump lost in 2016 and 2020. Now, he wins it.
When President-elect Donald Trump leaned into rumors that Haitian migrants in the Ohio city of Springfield were eating pets, some mainstream media outlets predicted the move could alienate loyal Republican voters.
A September Politico piece, for example, noted that Trump won Clark County, which includes Springfield, with more than 60 percent of the vote in 2020. It stated that Trump's rhetoric had turned off "even some Trump-backing Republicans" and served "as a distraction from a more coherent message on immigration." A Newsweek piece went so far as to suggest that backlash over Trump's comments "could influence the results of November's race between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in Florida, a state which has a Haitian American population of around 500,000."
It's true that Trump has historically carried Clark County, winning it with 57 percent of the vote in 2016 and 61 percent of the vote in 2020. But Springfield, the county's largest city, is no bastion of conservatism—in fact, it usually goes the opposite way. Hillary Clinton carried Springfield by roughly 2,800 votes in 2016, a Washington Free Beacon review of election results found. Four years later, Joe Biden won the city by a slightly lower margin, roughly 1,800 votes. Vice President-elect J.D. Vance didn't fare much better during his 2022 Senate campaign, losing Springfield by 1,300 votes to Democrat Tim Ryan.
That changed last week when Trump carried Springfield by a razor-thin margin of roughly 150 votes out of more than 20,000 cast. The flip helped drive up Trump's margin in Clark County to its highest level: Trump won 64 percent of the county vote this time around, the highest margin for a Republican presidential candidate in at least four decades.
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freebeacon.com
When President-elect Donald Trump leaned into rumors that Haitian migrants in the Ohio city of Springfield were eating pets, some mainstream media outlets predicted the move could alienate loyal Republican voters.
A September Politico piece, for example, noted that Trump won Clark County, which includes Springfield, with more than 60 percent of the vote in 2020. It stated that Trump's rhetoric had turned off "even some Trump-backing Republicans" and served "as a distraction from a more coherent message on immigration." A Newsweek piece went so far as to suggest that backlash over Trump's comments "could influence the results of November's race between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in Florida, a state which has a Haitian American population of around 500,000."
It's true that Trump has historically carried Clark County, winning it with 57 percent of the vote in 2016 and 61 percent of the vote in 2020. But Springfield, the county's largest city, is no bastion of conservatism—in fact, it usually goes the opposite way. Hillary Clinton carried Springfield by roughly 2,800 votes in 2016, a Washington Free Beacon review of election results found. Four years later, Joe Biden won the city by a slightly lower margin, roughly 1,800 votes. Vice President-elect J.D. Vance didn't fare much better during his 2022 Senate campaign, losing Springfield by 1,300 votes to Democrat Tim Ryan.
That changed last week when Trump carried Springfield by a razor-thin margin of roughly 150 votes out of more than 20,000 cast. The flip helped drive up Trump's margin in Clark County to its highest level: Trump won 64 percent of the county vote this time around, the highest margin for a Republican presidential candidate in at least four decades.
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In Shadow of Immigration Firestorm, Trump Made Gains in Springfield—and Won the Ohio City for the First Time
When President-elect Donald Trump leaned into rumors that Haitian migrants in the Ohio city of Springfield were eating pets, some mainstream media outlets predicted the move could alienate loyal Republican voters.
freebeacon.com
