Former President Donald Trump didn’t win New York, but he did better in the state than any Republican presidential candidate for decades. Photo illustration via Flickr accounts of Gage Skidmore, Marc A Hermann, Cezary Piwowarczyk and Matt Wade + NY Focus

It’s been one month since New Yorkers were lining up at the polls on an uncertain Election Day. Since the results came in, our reporters have been processing and analyzing what Donald Trump’s second term will mean for New York.

We have so many questions in anticipation of 2025, and I’m sure you do too. Questions like — what happens to New York’s progress on climate if he reverses plans for building wind turbines off the coast of Long Island? What should schools anticipate if Trump cuts federal education funding, or deports students who just arrived? Will our state and local leaders intervene when they can on Trump’s plans for mass deportations — or will law enforcement help facilitate ICE operations? And how was it that Trump surged in his home state of New York?

I’ll be thinking about how local news, with fewer outlets and journalists on the ground since Trump’s first term, will meet the occasion of a second. And how New York Focus, as the only statewide nonprofit outlet, can help. Here are some of the pieces we’ve published these last few weeks that can help us understand what to anticipate. 

What questions do you have?

-Alex Arriaga, audience engagement editor


 

 
The Trump administration has several avenues to block or stall offshore wind in New York. Photos: Dennis Schroeder / National Renewable Energy Lab; Tia Dufour / The White House | Illustration: Maha Ahmed
Offshore wind is crucial to the state’s plans for cleaning up its electric grid, and construction is already behind schedule. The incoming president could slow it down a whole lot more.
By Colin Kinniburgh

President-elect Donald Trump wants to “terminate” Democrats’ climate agenda — and let America “drill, baby, drill.” Those promises could stymie a key component of New York’s plan to help slow global warming over the next few decades: building wind turbines off the coast of Long Island.

 
A review of Trump’s first term, along with his campaign promises and details found within Project 2025, indicate what’s to come in New York.
By Bianca Fortis

President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t yet laid out a detailed plan for his administration’s education policy. But a review of his first term and his campaign promises, as well as the details contained in the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, gives some indication of what might be coming in New York.

 
Despite New York’s immigrant-friendly reputation, the state isn’t set up to counter Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” campaign. Images via Marco Postigo Storel; Flickr, Gov. Kathy Hochul; NY Focus
Trump is poised to ramp up deportation activity in northern states like New York, which has few statewide policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
By Chris Gelardi

Deportations are a logistical game, and state and local governments hold some of the cards. For a removal campaign as massive as what Trump is promising, states can aid ICE’s efforts to find, apprehend, and lock up deportable people. Or they can throw a wrench in the agency’s plans.

Despite New York state’s immigrant-friendly reputation, the jury’s out on which role it will play. The direction it goes depends heavily on whether state lawmakers and Governor Kathy Hochul take quick action.

 
Donald Trump’s historic showing in New York was fueled by low voter turnout. Creative Commons
Trump picked up some votes in New York this year. But Democrats lost far more.
By Colin Kinniburgh

On the surface, it looks like a clear enough story. New York mirrored a national lurch to the right that is sending Donald Trump back to the White House with a decisive margin. In the famously blue state, Trump performed better than any Republican at the top of the ticket since 1988. In New York City, he claimed 30 percent of the vote — nearly double his share in 2016. It was enough for pollster Nate Silver to conclude on Wednesday that “the story of Trump’s win was foretold in New York City.”

But look more closely, and a wrinkle in that story emerges.

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Staying Focused is compiled and written by Alex Arriaga
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