AOC’s district saw massive shift to Trump during presidential election
AOC’s home base is seeing red.
Far-left Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s constituents swung toward President-elect Trump in Tuesday’s presidential election by one of the largest margins citywide.
In 2020, 77% of voters in AOC’s congressional district, which covers parts of the Bronx and Queens, cast their ballot for Joe Biden, while Trump snagged just 22%, according to an analysis of voting records by the progressive news outlet Daily Kos, which used the current district lines.
That yawning, 55-point gap was cut by nearly half this week, with Vice President Harris securing just under 65% of the ballots cast in NY-14 to Trump’s 33%, according to unofficial city voting records and the Daily Kos data.
“Like the rest of the country, New York City saw a big shift rightward on Election Night as voters soundly rejected the Biden-Harris-AOC record of inflation, open borders and radical progressivism,” New York State GOP spokesman David Laska told The Post
The far-left firebrand’s own outer borough district notably overlaps with Bronx neighborhoods such as Throgs Neck and Schuylerville that elected City Councilwoman Kristy Marmorato, the first Republican to hold public office in the borough in nearly two decades.
“Everyone sees AOC as a darling of the left, and coming from a district that reflects those politics,” said Democratic strategist Jake Dilemani. But the part of the borough she represents is “one of the most conservative parts of the Bronx,” he added.
Her sprawling district also boasts sizable Latino and Asian populations, two groups that have recently shifted rightward and were crucial to Trump’s triumph, GOP political consultant Ryan Girdusky suggested.
“If you look at the trajectory at how ethnic whites, Asians and Hispanics are voting in New York City, they are rejecting the Democratic Party on quality-of-life issues like crime, like the migrant crisis, and they are blaming it on the Dems,” he said.
Other congressional districts in the Big Apple that saw staggering swings in favor of Trump included Rep. Grace Meng’s NY-6 in Queens, which includes the heavily Asian neighborhood of Flushing; and Rep. Ritchie Torres’ majority Latino NY-15 in the Bronx, voting records and the Daily Kos analysis show.
On Wednesday, AOC took to Instagram to blame sexism and Trump’s appeal to working-class voters as the reasons for Harris’ loss.
“We have had an enormous setback in this election because the fascists won a lot of working-class support, which has happened before in history,” she said.
AOC’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment.
