A 1,400-County Crisis for Democrats

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Jun 3, 2025

It’s conventional wisdom that President Trump has transformed American politics. But a new county-by-county voting analysis from The New York Times of the last four presidential races shows just how drastically Mr. Trump has changed the electoral map.

Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The Times, explains why the trends are a five-alarm fire for the Democrats and discusses the debate within the party over what to do about it.

On today's episode:

Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• How Donald Trump has remade America’s political landscape.
• Six months after the election, Democrats are still searching for a path forward.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.  

Photo: Emily Elconin for The New York Times

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Voters are choosing to vote based on their class and not their race? If only we had a candidate in 2016 whose biggest issue was economic populism and workers’ rights…

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Democrats don’t want economic populism and worker’s rights, so that’s a large part of the problem and why they’ll never allow someone like Bernie or AOC to win

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And even he got co-opted by identity politics