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Can Republicans Capitalize on Urban Political Opportunity? A lifelong Democrat suggests how the GOP can become viable in American cities.
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Today, “Republican mayors,” like “Jewish sports legends,” is a niche category. None of the ten largest cities in the United States is led by a Republican. The margins by which Democrats win mayoral elections in these cities are impressively large: in New York, Bill de Blasio won 73 percent of the vote in 2013 and 66 percent in 2017; in Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti won 81 percent in 2017 and won by a smaller margin in 2013 against another Democrat; in Chicago, two Democrats competed in the 2019 runoff; in Houston, Republicans have been shut out of the office for 40 years; and in Phoenix, two Democrats combined to take 70 percent of the vote in the 2018 election’s first round. The largest city in the United States with a Republican mayor is Jacksonville, Florida, at 12th.
Can Republicans Capitalize on Urban Political Opportunity?
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