I bet if I look at the whole board, I will find that no, Biden outperformed Clinton in many other places…including a lot of GOP-controlled precincts where I would assume there was no cheating going on…unless the GOP was in on it?
This was me just wanting to take a few minutes of my time.
In Philadelphia, Biden got less votes in that city than Hillary Clinton and Obama.
Philadelphia, PA:
2012 Obama - 588,806 - 85.24%
2016 Clinton - 584,025 - 82.30%
2020 Biden — 580,331 - 81.13%
Trump lost Pennsylvania mainly due to Erie County flipping from red to blue and with Trump not winning several PA Counties (such as Luzerne County) by as much as he did in 2016.
As for Wayne County (Detroit), Biden won that County by 37.4% while Obama won that County by as much as 46.7% in 2012.
Trump lost Michigan this time around mainly due to Biden winning three more MI Counties than Clinton and by not winning Macomb County by as much as he did in 2016.
How curious that, as Baris notes, “Trump won the largest non-white vote share for a Republican presidential candidate in 60 years. Biden underperformed Hillary Clinton in every major metro area around the country, save for Milwaukee, Detroit, Atlanta and Philadelphia.”
Nixon likely got Illinois stolen from him back in 1960. Nixon won 92 out of that state’s 101 counties. That was as much as 91% of Illinois’s counties that Nixon won. Nixon would end up winning Illinois in 1968, but he didn’t win as many of that state’s counties as he did back in 1960.
In Pennsylvania, Trump won 54 out of that state’s 67 counties this time around. That is the same number of PA Counties that Romney won in 2012. Romney also lost PA. That is 80.6% of the PA counties.
In Michigan during the 2016 election, Trump won 75 out of that state’s 83 counties and won that state. During the 2020 election, Trump didn’t win as many Michigan counties. He won 72 out of that state’s 83 counties. That comes out to winning 86.7% of the counties in that state. Trump lost Michigan this time around mainly due to losing three more MI Counties and by not winning Macomb County by as much as he did in 2016.
I haven’t done that much research into Wisconsin yet. But it looks like that Biden did do better in Milwaukee and Madison than Hillary Clinton. And I noticed that two Wisconsin counties ended up flipping from red to blue.
In Arizona here, at least 60% of Arizona voters live in Maricopa County. And this county has gone from light red to light blue over the last several years. Romney won Maricopa County by 10.7% in 2012, Trump won Maricopa County by 2.84% in 2016, and Biden won this county by 2.17%. However, Biden didn’t win Maricopa County by as much as Sinema did in 2018. Sinema (who’s Congressional district was in this county) won Maricopa County by 4.2%. Pima County, Az was another big reason why Biden won this state. While Hillary won Pima County by 13.57%, Biden won Pima County by as much as 18.62%. Biden won 5 out of the 15 Arizona counties.