The sharpest suburban shift toward Trump was in these heavily South Asian precincts in Delaware County

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

75% : After four years under Biden, his answer was Trump.
73% : Harris won the national Asian American and Pacific Islander vote, according to exit polls, but Trump boosted his support with the voting group by 5 percentage points compared to 2020.
58% : Twelve precincts in Millbourne and Upper Darby that together saw a 7.5-point swing for Trump make up some of the most diverse areas in the Philadelphia suburbs.
55% : Election results in Millbourne and parts of Upper Darby on Nov. 5 demonstrated that Rahman's experience wasn't an outlier, but a tangible political shift in the community and a representation of how Trump won Pennsylvania in part by doing better in reliably Democratic pockets.
50% : But the father of two grown children, who owns an insurance company and an auto repair shop, said his politics have shifted in recent years and 2024 was the first race where he got actively involved trying to turn his community out for Trump.
46% : The area had some of the most dramatic rightward swings in the collar counties, and many South Asian voters stayed home or voted for Trump.
46% : Ahmad visited Upper Darby in September, and was struck by local residents showing up to all sorts of community events to stump for Trump.
45% : "Already looking ahead to the midterms in 2026, Chowdhury, the founder of Muslims for Trump, said the next election will be a "litmus test" for the movement within Muslim communities toward Republicans.
35% : Rabiul Chowdhury, who cochaired the national pro-Palestinian Abandon Biden movement and then formed Muslims for Trump, said Muslim voters in the working class community were motivated to vote for Trump based upon his "America first" platform and hopes he'd end foreign wars.
23% : To vote for Harris or Trump, he said, would be to support their ideas and a system that allowed for the killing of innocent people and a refusal to put an end to the war in Gaza.
20% : Muhammed Sabir, a 70-year-old who attends the same mosque and has voted for Republicans since Ronald Reagan, agreed as he predicted Trump could bring the costs of goods down.
10% : South Asian voters in Upper Darby and Millbourne cited the economy and illegal immigration as reasons they voted for Donald Trump over Kamala Harris, despite her shared heritage.

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