This article is to be found in our special edition Goodbye America, on sale since January 14 at your newsstand and on our website.
The extraordinary meeting between Donald Trump and [the new mayor of New York,] Zohran Mamdani, at the White House on November 21, attests to it: the political landscape of the United States has a new barometer.
Ohio had held this role for decades. In every presidential election from 1964 to 2016, this state voted for the candidate who won the White House. And every four years, journalists were invariably dispatched there to interview the voters of Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton or Youngstown.
In 2020, Joe Biden was elected to the White House without winning Ohio, and, five years later, the state is now bright red [color of the Republican Party] and has lost its political barometer role. Other key states that could once swing the presidential election – Iowa, Missouri, and Florida – have also clearly shifted towards the Republican side.
Unparalleled diversity
A new barometer is emerging today: Queens. This neighborhood in New York contains multitudes. With its population of 2.3 million inhabitants, Queens [if it were not part of New York] would be the
