The research found that Donald Trump won 2,584 counties accounting for 36 percent of total U.S. economic output when he beat Hillary Clinton in 2016. Even though she won far fewer counties, 472, they accounted for 64 percent of total U.S. economic output. The political outcome of this year' contest is different and the country's economic voting chasm hs widened.
Joe Biden won five more counties than Hillary Clinton and the 477 that voting for him accounted for a 70 percent share of U.S. GDP. Once again, Trump won far more counties than the Democrats - 2,497 - but they only generated 29 percent of U.S. economic output.