California by city

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Los Angeles County, CA results (by city)
                        Biden        Trump
Beverly Hills   55.07%   43.86%   -19.97%

Dear Lord, what happened here?! Beverly Hills is like the epitome of the white latte liberal city that generally swung to Biden this year. I remember it swinging pretty Republican in 2008 and 2012 but then it swung pretty hard to Hillary in 2016, now only to swing against Biden pretty substantially. What the heck is going on in 90210?!

It's home to lot of Iranian Jews, who I've read tend to like Trump for whatever reason (possibly in part due to him withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal?) and are probably trending Republican long term too.
 
Plus I don't think Beverley Hills's liberal-left reputation is deserved, it always supports the more 'conservative' candidates in Democratic primaries, Bernie came a poor third in the primary this year (behind Bloomberg) failing to even get 10% in the northern part of the city. Beverley Hills is the kind of place that would be a stronghold of the right in literally any other country and it's only the GOP seemingly going out of their way to put off well-to-do urban voters and the Democrats staying relatively centrist that's keeping it non-Altas-blue. Whilst I think AOC (or a similar type) may well do significantly better in a presidential election than many on the right assume (many Dem trending formally GOP suburbs are not particularly economically right-leaning anymore) Beverley Hills is a good example of a place where she genuinely would lose badly, especially if the Republican nominee was a lot less 'gauche' than Trump.

How did Romney do in Beverly Hills? He was a great fit for very upscale areas.

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Despite all of these swings towards Trump, you can't understate how well Democrats did here considering the Democratic swing in 2016. Santa Clara county swung nearly 5 pps to Trump, but nearly the entire swing was Trump increasing his vote, not the Democrats losing percentage.

Who cares? What the hell is the point of bragging about doing well in a state where Democrats already dominate top to bottom? Running up the score in California is a big part of the reason the tipping point state was 4 points to the right of the national popular vote.

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Crazy that Beverly Hills swung so hard towards Hillary and then towards Trump. What happened? This is the quintessential stomping ground for rich Hollywood types.