By The opinion
May 24, 2024, 01:07 AM EDT
Former President Donald J. Trump stood in a park in New York City’s Bronx on Thursday, greeting attendees at his 2024 campaign rally and He acknowledged that he was concerned about how he might be received in New York state after eight years.
Trump took the stage in Crotona Park in the South Bronx in front of several thousand people around 6:30 p.m. In the hours before his appearance, nearly every type of souvenir was for sale and security was extremely tight. .
National polls show Trump is making gains among Black and Latino voters, and on Thursday he made his pitch to those communities. His topics of conversation included the economy, crime and immigration.
“We are going to return security to our streets. We are going to return success to our schools. We are going to restore prosperity to every neighborhood in every district of the greatest city on our land. “We are going to reduce taxes. “We’re going to bring businesses and big taxpayers back to New York,” Trump said.
“The biggest negative impact is against our black population and against our Hispanic population who are losing their jobs, losing their homes, losing everything they can lose,” Trump added.
Against immigrants
In a district in which more than half of the population is Hispanic and more than a quarter African American, the Republican candidate for the next presidential elections argued that “millions” of immigrants are leaving their countries’ prisons empty, entering the United States illegally. and committing “migrant crimes.”
Between shouts of “Send them back” (deport them) and “Build the wall” (raise the wall), Trump promised “the largest criminal deportation in history” and even suggested that immigrants “are creating an army from within” because “they usually have good physique, between 19-25 years old, almost all of them are men, and they are of fighting age.”
The politician chose some of the most shocking anecdotes, such as the “attack by a migrant gang on police officers” in Times Square or the use of a school as a migrant shelter in Brooklyn, and recovered from his previous campaign a metaphorical story about a snake (the emigrant) rescued from the street by a woman whom the animal then betrays and bites.
The former president proclaimed himself more capable than his rival, Democratic President Joe Biden, on numerous occasions, although with a risky statement: to question the abilities of the Democratic leader, he stated that The leaders of China, North Korea and Russia are “on top of the world.”
Trump concluded, his voice drowned out by cheers, changing his slogan to “Make Our City Great Again.” He reminded them to go vote for “patriots who work hard like you and who are going to save our country. Our vote is going to be too broad to be manipulated.”
Win the elections in New York
Trump has insisted that has a chance of winning New York in the November electionssomething no Republican presidential candidate has failed to achieve since 1984.
The Bronx is a Democratic stronghold, which Trump lost by about 68 points to Biden in 2020. That margin, however, was smaller than four years earlier, when Hillary Clinton won the county by 79 points.
Trump’s outreach to Latino and African-American minority voters also comes as the former president has made a cornerstone of his campaign fears about undocumented immigrants.
Trump regularly has made false or misleading statements about illegal immigration and has used dehumanizing language when referring to immigrants.
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