Once strongly liberal, Pico-Robertson surged for Trump in 2024. Why?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Silverman put together a voting guide, which recommended Trump and Hochman.
51% : But the polls show that Trump made significant inroads in this once reliably liberal bastion.
48% : "People wear Trump yarmulkes," he said.
47% : In 2016, Trump took in 1,292 votes to Hillary Clinton's 3,632.
47% : "People want a change, and they have spoken."Walt, 49, voted for Trump and said the vast majority of locals he talked to did as well.
47% : Still, the final tally showed that Harris ultimately drew more votes in the neighborhood than Trump.
47% : Orthodox Jews in the neighborhood favored Trump, while more of her Reformed Jewish friends opted for Harris.
45% : In 2024, Trump surged again, drawing 6,760 votes and beating Kamals Harris in three of the five precincts that touch Pico-Robertson.
44% : A red tide washed through the neighborhood in recent months, and Trump drew more votes in Pico-Robertson than the previous two elections combined.
44% : Over the last eight years, Trump slowly gained ground in Pico-Robertson.
44% : The numbers aren't exact, because voter precincts change boundaries and take in parts of surrounding neighborhoods such as Beverlywood and Crestview, but data show that Trump has gained thousands of votes over the course of the last three elections.
43% : Four years later, Trump drew 2,693 to Biden's 5,252.
39% : Others in the neighborhood turned to Trump as a result in the rise of antisemitism in the region after Hamas' attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel's military response to it.
37% : "Hoffman said that the divide was generational -- older people voting for Trump, younger people voting for Harris -- but that it also played out on religious lines.
32% : "Trump is a bigot, he's a misogynist, and he's a felon," Hoffman said.
29% : She said that Trump may be more publicly pro-Israel than Harris, but that he's just pandering to get the Jewish vote.
19% : Sara Hoffman, who moved into a Pico-Robertson apartment last year, said her aversion to Trump overruled her concerns over Harris' stance on Israel and Palestinians.

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