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New Yorkers knew Donald Trump first – and they spurned him before American voters did

  • Written by Lincoln Mitchell, Associate Adjunct Research Scholar, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
New Yorkers knew Donald Trump first – and they spurned him before American voters didEvery single voting district in Manhattan, where Trump lives, went for Joe Biden. Times Square, Nov. 7, 2020.Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

Donald J. Trump was a president from, but not of, New York.

In the final months of his presidency, Trump attacked New York as a lawless “ghost town,” and got attacked right...

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