The Daily Yonder For Most Americans, the Local Presidential Vote Was a Landslide More than half of Americans live in counties where the vote margin between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was 20 percentage points or more. Still, the percentage of Americans living in landslide counties dropped a bit from 2016 to 2020.
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Republicans and Democrats were less divided in the 2020 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden than in the 2016 contest.
But only slightly.
In the last two elections contests that were extremely close nationally most people lived in communities where the final vote wasn’t close at all.
In 2016, 62% of voters lived in a county either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump won by 20 percentage points or more. This year, 58.2% of voters lived in one of these landslide counties.
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