Joe Biden wins Maryland presidential race, but how did Trump fare compared with 2016?

Maryland Democrats often win statewide by rolling up huge margins in Baltimore and the large Washington suburbs of Montgomery County and Prince George’s County. Two-term Republican Gov. Larry Hogan won partly by peeling off votes in Democratic strongholds or because Democrats did not turn out to vote.

But large swaths of the state are reliably Republican.

For example, Trump, who had not previously run for public office, won a number of Eastern Shore and Southern Maryland counties four years ago by large margins. Those included Queen Anne’s (64.1%), Worcester (60.9%), St. Mary’s (57.5 %) and Dorchester (55.3%).

In Tuesday’s results, the president was drawing about the same percentage of the vote in those counties as in 2016.

Four years ago, Trump also won big in the Republican-oriented Western Maryland counties, collecting 76.9% in Garrett, 69.4% in Allegany and 62.1% in Washington.

Those Trump numbers were holding as well.

As expected, Trump was losing big in Democratic-dominated Baltimore.

Some Baltimore-area voters said Tuesday that they were at least as strongly anti-Trump as they were pro-Biden.

Carol Tucker-Blackman, 64, who works in food and nutrition for Baltimore City Public Schools, said the presidential race brought her to the polls at Mount Pleasant Church.

“I want to get Trump out of office,” said Tucker-Blackman, of East Baltimore. “That fool is crazy. ... He don’t have respect for people. No respect at all.”

In June, Trump won Maryland’s primary election with 87.3%.

But former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld — who had months earlier ended his bid to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination — managed to accumulate double-digit percentages of Republican votes in some counties.

Weld topped 20% in such suburban counties as Howard, Montgomery and Prince George’s. The last two are Maryland’s most populous counties.

Those figures were higher than most presidential primary challengers receive historically, leaving pundits to wonder whether the president’s GOP support might be slipping.

Hogan has not been a Trump supporter, though he didn’t vote for Biden either. The governor said he planned to write in the name of Ronald Reagan, a former Republican president who died in 2004.

Last year, Hogan flirted with challenging Trump in the 2020 primaries. The governor decided against it, saying he was focused on his second term in Annapolis and on leading the National Governors Association as its chair, a position whose term ended in early August.