Published May 24, 2024
It looks like CNN just might have been a bit unhappy on Thursday. They were forced to talk about the huge Trump rally in the South Bronx because everyone else was talking about it. Thousands turned out, exceeding the 3500 anticipated. The campaign estimated it was 25,000.
But CNN didn’t seem at all jazzed that they had to talk about it and that they had to admit a little truth.
Anderson Cooper asked about the event, “What was the crowd like and what kind of response did you get?”
The reporter responded, “Certainly a bigger crowd than I think Democrats would like to see, particularly given this is one of the bluest counties in the entire country!”
According to the CNN reporter, Trump’s people said they were going to “micro-target” to get local people out.
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SOURCE: www.redstate.com
RELATED: Trump bombs the Bronx
Published May 24, 2024
THE SOUTH BRONX, N.Y. — Former President Trump’s rally on Thursday night drew a crowd that looked very different than the typical MAGA flock.
Why it matters: The unusual sight of Trump speaking to several thousand people in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood in deep blue New York is a sign of the realignment happening between the two parties.
- Trump’s GOP is becoming more working class and a little more multiracial.
- Democrats are gaining with more well-educated voters in the suburbs.
What we’re watching: During a break in his criminal trial, Trump made a New York-focused pitch to construction workers, security guards, nurses, barbers — as well as some out-of-state activists — assembled outdoors at Crotona Park.
- “New Yorkers have something called common sense… and old fashioned common sense is exactly what I plan to bring back to the White House,” Trump said.
- “We are going to make life in New York affordable again,” Trump declared after talking extensively about his role building the Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park and a Bronx golf course.
- Another promise: “We are going to renovate New York’s subway system so it no longer looks like it hasn’t been cleaned since 1932.”
The big picture: Ahead of Trump’s rally yesterday, both the Biden and Trump campaigns rushed to paint to their opponents as racist and a worse choice for Black voters.
- The Biden campaign put out a digital and television ad that begins: “Trump disrespecting Black folk is nothing new.” The campaign posted on X: “Let’s remember that Trump is a lifelong racist.”
- The Trump campaign responded with a reminder that Biden helped pass the 1994 Crime Bill that led to mass incarceration disproportionately impacting minorities.
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SOURCE: www.axios.com
RELATED: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul calls Trump supporters ‘clowns’ in her own ‘basket of deplorables’ moment
Published May 24, 2024
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appeared to call Trump supporters “clowns” on Thursday during a media appearance ahead of the former president’s New York City rally in the Bronx.
“Well, I’ll tell you what won’t make a difference at all, Jake, and that’s for Donald Trump to be a ringleader and invite all his clowns to a place like the Bronx,” Hochul told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
She continued, “New York will never, ever support Donald Trump for president. We know him better than anyone and that means we understand what he’s all about. He’s just for himself. So, this state will go solidly behind Joe Biden for president as it has in the past. So, if he wants to spend his time doing these made-up, fake rallies and pretending there’s support here, be my guest, because while you’re doing that, Donald Trump, Joe Biden’s out there on the other side making sure he’s delivering for all Americans.”
In response to Hochul’s comments, the Trump campaign told Fox News Digital: “Kathy Hocul is just upset that President Trump is pulling crowds in her state that she could only dream of; and Democrats are in disarray because Americans, including Hispanics and Blacks, are waking up to the fact that Joe Biden and the Democrat Party have been using them for votes and ripping them off for decades.”
Trump, who has been in the state recently for his hush money trial, has said he thinks he has a good chance of winning the state in November despite the fact that it hasn’t voted Republican since 1984.
