Trump, Wu, and Josh Kraft: How last week's election will shape next year's race for Boston mayor - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : While Kamala Harris won Boston easily, Trump has grown his share of votes in the city from 13.7 percent in 2016 to 15.4 percent in 2020 to 20.4 percent in 2024, according to a Globe analysis of election data.
47% : Boston remains dominated by Democrats, many of them liberal, and the last time Trump was in office he united them.
45% : She could also undermine a Kraft candidacy by reminding voters any chance she gets that Bob Kraft is a friend of Trump's, and there are no shortage of photos to prove her point.
44% : The Patriots owner said in an Oct. 14 radio interview he has not talked to Trump since his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, and Josh Kraft, who is a registered Democrat, supported the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz ticket, calling them "the best for the United States.
43% : Massachusetts, Boston included, was not immune to the rightward shift that propelled Trump to a second term and appears to have given Republicans full control of Congress as well.
43% : Trump won by tapping into the electorate's exhaustion over identity politics and disillusionment with government.
42% : "But not everyone agrees that Trump strengthens Wu's reelection bid.
34% : Or will Boston voters rally around her as a bulwark against Trump?

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