Trump continues to portray urban America in terms of “carnage.” Baltimore, Chicago and Atlanta have each taken turns being portrayed as bastions of crime and dysfunction. His latest is Los Angeles.
“We can’t let Los Angeles, San Francisco and numerous other cities destroy themselves by allowing what’s happening,” Trump said to reporters Tuesday, referring to the number of homeless people in those cities and suggesting they were disturbing more affluent residents.
The urban-rural split will be a particularly important fault line in 2020 in three of the states that are crucial to Trump’s political prospects: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — swing states where surging turnout in rural areas helped him overcome big losses in Democratic-dominated cities in 2016.
John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster who is working with former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, said that Democrats have an opportunity to make gains among rural voters in 2020, even if they have little hope of winning a majority. Winning back disillusioned rural voters could help Democrats reduce the GOP margin of victory.“There will be a huge effort by a lot of groups to make sure Democrats communicate in rural and exurban areas,” he said.
In 2016, Trump won just four of the 50 most populous counties in the U.S. in 2016. Trump in 2016 drew 23.5% of the vote in Los Angeles County and a mere 9.9% in his home county of New York. “Democrats support deadly sanctuary cities,” he said in New Hampshire in August. “Republicans believe our cities should be sanctuaries for law-abiding Americans, not for criminal aliens.”
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