Since the turn of the 21st century, Monroe County has consistently voted for the Democratic candidate for president. The closest contest came in 2004, with John Kerry edging then-President George W. Bush by less than 10,000 votes. The widest margin was in 2020, when voters favored Joe Biden by 80,000 votes.

Look for Newsom and his successor after the 2026 election to do the same. After Trump won in 2016, he appointed three justices to the U.S. Supreme Court — Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch.

Donald Trump strutted on stage in a Florida ballroom, surrounded by advisers, party leaders, family and friends. The Associated Press had yet to call the race, but it was clear by then that the voters had swept him back into power.

By early Wednesday morning, Donald Trump appeared poised to make a paradigm-shattering political comeback, close to winning back the White House in an election shaped more by Americans’ dissatisfaction with the direction of the country than by Democrats’ dire warnings of the threat the 45th poses to its founding principles.

Republican Donald Trump was projected to defeat Democrat Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential election early on Wednesday. Trump clinched the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency,