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Here are three takeaways about the scale of Republicans’ gains and how they did it

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With some votes still being counted on Wednesday , Trump was up in North Carolina by more than 200,000 votes.

Trump improved on his 2020 performance in the city of Philadelphia .

He picked up the suburban Philadelphia bellwether of Bucks County , flipped small metropolitan areas like Erie County , and even won in Centre County , which has not gone Republican since 2004 .

The Republican coalition is younger and more diverse.

Trump made a point of courting non-white voters, low-propensity voters, and young men categories that frequently overlap.

The Senate could be in Republican hands for at least four more years.

Democrats could be on defense in swing states that Trump won in 2024 .