Former President Donald Trump stuck to his campaign message on Thursday, announcing plans to hold historic rallies in the Bronx and Madison Square Garden ahead of his business records trial.
The last time the Bronx was the center of a Republican presidential campaign was in 1984, when Ronald Reagan won a landslide victory.
“I think we have a good chance of winning here, and we’re going to have big plans,” Trump said of New York. “We’re going to the South Bronx for a rally.”
President Trump added: “I believe we will have a rally at Madison Square Garden.”
The rally will focus on honoring police, firefighters and teachers. “I salute the people who make New York work,” Trump said. “It’s going to be very exciting, but I think we have a pretty good chance of winning.”
Trump also stuck to his campaign message by attacking President Joe Biden’s expensive economy, open borders and anti-Israel protests around America’s “elite” universities.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold a small rally in front of Columbia University in New York City on April 24, 2024. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
“[Police] “I want to go to the universities to secure their campuses because what’s happening on them is disgraceful,” Trump said, contrasting the police guarding Manhattan courthouses with college campuses. “This courthouse is on lockdown and there’s no one within five blocks. There’s more police here.”
“This is the worst-run country right now,” the former president continued. “All you have to do is look at the millions of people coming in from prisons and psychiatric hospitals. They’re coming in at levels we’ve never seen before.”
“So I’m going to go in now and sit in front of this case of election interference,” Trump said. “But from what I’ve seen, I think that’s what’s driving up the poll numbers.”
A Morning Consult/Bloomberg poll on Wednesday showed Mr. Trump overwhelming Mr. Biden in battleground states, reversing Mr. Biden’s gains in recent national polls. According to the report, Trump is leading in six of the seven battleground state elections in 2024, indicating his continued advantage over Biden.
President Trump’s message drew praise from Karl Rove, one of the establishment’s critics who is allied with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). “He’s done this several times before,” Rove told Fox News about Trump’s on-message strategy. “The person who advised him on this should be given a gold star because it’s good advice.”
“It’s better for him to seize moments like this and go in and comment on the news of the day rather than express everything he’s feeling,” Loeb said. [about the criminal trial]. And he obviously feels strongly about this, about his treatment in this case. We have already heard about it once or twice,” he added. “You don’t have to ask anymore.”
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former Republican war room analyst.he is the author of politics of slave morality.Follow Wendell “X” @WendellHusebø or society of truth @WendellHusebo.
