Analysis: In a coastal state with 4.5 million Trump voters, Pete Buttigieg says coastal states don’t know Trump voters
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind., speaks to the media before appearing at the Commonwealth Club of California on Thursday in San Francisco. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 29 at 1:17 PM South Bend, Ind.
It’s obvious what Buttigieg is saying here: There are obvious cultural differences between rural Indiana and San Francisco. But it’s still worth pointing out that the idea that people in San Francisco might not believe in the existence of Trump voters is undercut by the fact that there were tens of thousands of Trump voters in San Francisco.
Or, we can look at it another way, isolating Trump’s support in Clinton counties from his support overall. Notice that a lot of the circles indicating his support in places Clinton won are much larger than the circles in places that he won — indicating that he got a lot of votes in those places where Clinton nonetheless carried the day.
In fact, there were 34 counties where Trump lost to Clinton but in which he earned more votes that he did in Alaska. That includes six counties in California.
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