WBUR TODAY: 5 local takeaways from Tuesday
❤️ Donate Thursday, November 5, 2026 ⛅ C loudy, with a high near 74 . Good Morning Boston, It was certainly a blue wave this week, but some Mainers may be seeing red about NBC News chief data analyst Steve Kornacki referring to southern Maine as " kind of like the Boston suburbia extended. " Let's blame it on exhaustion and forgive him? Now, let's go full Kornacki with WBUR's Gin Dumcius and dive deep into the data for some Massachusetts election results takeaways: 1. What a blue wave in Massachusetts looks like Parts of Massachusetts shifted red in 2024 when Kamala Harris faced off against Donald Trump in the presidential election. Fall River, for example, narrowly went for Trump in 2024 — the first time the city had gone for a Republican presidential candidate in 100 years. Meanwhile, Harris won but underperformed in the state’s cities with the most Hispanic voters, such as Lawrence, Lynn and Holyoke. But this year, Fall River snapped back to the Democrat...