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Street fighting and other crimes create images that right-wing media use to terrify their largely elderly, exurban audiences, shoring up even more support for "tough" measures and "crackdowns" on people they don't like.

If the big bad city is the problem, why is the biggest Trump swing in the tri-state area in the exurban towns of Connecticut’s majority-white Naugatuck Valley?

In terms of what to watch in 2024, James Gimpel, a political scientist at the University of Maryland, told Salon that he is watching to see whether the concerted effort Democrats have made to appeal to rural and exurban voters this cycle will be able to stem the bleeding in those areas.

The ads, part of the group’s broader $200 million effort to defeat Trump, target exurban and rural areas like Erie, Johnstown and Altoona, Pennsylvania; Flint, Saginaw and Bay City, Michigan; and Wausau and Rhinelander, Wisconsin.

Voters in those groups, they say, are predominantly women and from rural and exurban areas.