Vice President Kamala Harris won New York’s presidential contest on Tuesday, picking up the state’s 28 electoral votes. New York has now voted for the Democrat in every presidential contest since giving Ronald Reagan the nod in his landslide 1984 election.
Former President Donald Trump has consistently struggled to gain traction in his home state, losing New York in each of his three runs for the White House. However the margin of victory for the Democrats in New York was slimmer this time than in the previous two elections, when Donald Trump won the White House in 2016 and when he lost in 2020 to Joe Biden.
New York’s electoral vote haul is the fourth richest, after California, Texas and Florida, but has one fewer vote than it did four years ago due to population shifts.
The Associated Press declared Harris the winner at 3:00 a.m. CET.
New Yorkers approved an amendment that would expand the state constitution’s antidiscrimination language in a way that supporters say would protect the civil rights of people who are seeking or have had abortions.
