Donald Trump's extraordinary national political comeback in Tuesday's election did not include winning Massachusetts, but there were signs of his momentum in dozens of Bay State communities.

The state had historic voter turnout, with a total of 3,658,005 votes cast. Biden won in 298 of Massachusetts' 351 cities and towns, collecting 2.38 million votes from the state overall.

And according to the map, just two of the 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts had more Trump donors than Biden donors over the past six months. A zoomed-in look at The New York Times map of ...

“This is why cities and towns must go first in the process,” Geoffrey C. Beckwith, the executive director of the Massachusetts Municipal Association, wrote in a letter to lawmakers.

The map displays the breakdown of the $3.4 billion in aid that the American Rescue Plan Act provided to local cities, towns, and counties through the new Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund.

“Strangely the towns/cities of Stoughton, Blackstone, Dana, Dudley, Enfield, and Prescott do not exist in Markey’s Massachusetts,” read part of the Kennedy campaign’s press release, issued ...