The idea of American suburbs never lined up with reality, and the 2020 election proved it
In October, President Donald Trump made a plea to suburban voters: "Suburban women, will you please like me? Please. Please. I saved your damn neighborhood, okay?"
But these same suburbs may have handed the election to President-elect Joe Biden.
One New York Times piece, titled "How the Suburbs Moved Away From Trump," details how already-blue suburbs turned bluer, and red ones got a little bit more purple.
And a report out of the American Communities Project found that, while Trump still held "blue-collar Middle Suburbs," he lost two percentage points there. The biggest suburban loss for Trump came in the exurbs; the president still won them, but Biden gained a six-point margin.
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