Donald Trump won the 2024 Presidential election, but he did not win his home state of New York, despite a Madison Square Garden rally near the end of the campaign. He did, however, win just one neighborhood in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, called Two Bridges. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, but he did not win his home state of New York,
00:06despite a Madison Square Garden rally near the end of the campaign.
00:09He did, however, win just one neighborhood in Manhattan's Lower East Side called Two Bridges.
00:14Trump took the electoral win by just 16 votes of around 500 that were cast in the area.
00:19It has long been a stronghold for the recently immigrated,
00:22including large populations of first-generation Jewish, Italian, and Chinese people.
00:27The bloc borders Chinatown, with upwards of 80% of its residents of Asian descent.
00:32Among the Trump voters was this woman, 62-year-old Yu Lin.
00:36She says her and many others in the community were confident in Trump, telling Reuters,
00:40We believe he will improve the lives of ordinary people and possibly raise the quality of life.
00:45Lin and others interviewed by Reuters cite Chinese YouTube channels and other
00:49Chinese news outlets as their primary source for election news.
00:52Those living in the neighborhood have a median household income some four times
00:56lower than that of the average Manhattanite, at just $25,000.
01:00Though this neighborhood wasn't the only one that saw a surge for Trump,
01:03with the GOP candidate nearly tripling his support from the 2020 election against Biden in the Bronx.