Trump Delivers Powerful 2024 Declaration: ‘Remember Those Words’
Former President Donald Trump has reaffirmed his prediction of winning a historically blue state in a video posted to his Truth Social platform on Tuesday.
Trump, a native of Queens, New York, expressed confidence in winning his birth state, despite current polling suggesting otherwise.
“I believe that with your support, we can win the state of New York and I’m looking to win it as your presidential nominee. We are going to win New York – remember those words. I hope I’m gonna be correct. If I am, the election is over,” he said.
“There’s tremendous discontent in New York with hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants taking over your schools and your playgrounds, and the crime that’s happening in the city of New York and the state of New York. The lack of supervision, the lack of control, the lack of leadership, terrible things are happening in New York. I think we can win it,” he added.
“And again, we’re gonna make a big play for New York, presidentially,” Trump reiterated. “And so get out and join us. It’s gonna be one of the greatest wins, I think, in the history of the state. There’s no question about it and I do believe we can do it.”
Trump has already held a well-attended rally in the Bronx, the district of far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and announced plans for more rallies in New York.
During a visit to a lower Manhattan construction site before his court appearance for the hush money trial, Trump was warmly received by workers and other New Yorkers. He later told a Fox News reporter about his plans for the state.
“I think we have a good chance of winning here, and we’re going to give it a big plan,” he said. “We’re going to the South Bronx to do a rally. We’re going to be doing a rally at Madison Square Garden, we believe.”
The rallies will honor police, firefighters, and teachers, as reported by Breitbart. “We’ll be honoring the people that make New York work,” Trump said. “It’ll be very exciting, but we think we have a really good chance of winning.”
In his speech, Trump criticized President Joe Biden’s economic policies, the issue of open borders, and the anti-Israel protests at prominent universities.
“[Police] would like to be at the colleges” to secure those campuses “because what’s happening at the colleges is a disgrace,” Trump said, highlighting the contrast between NYPD presence at the Manhattan courthouse and the college campuses. “This courthouse is locked down, and there’s not a person within five blocks. They have more police here.”
“This is the worst-run country right now,” the former president added. “All you have to do is look at the millions of people coming in from prisons, from mental institutions — coming in at levels we’ve never seen before.”
“So I’m gonna go in now and sit in front of a case — election interference,” Trump said. “But I guess, based on what I’m looking at, it’s driving up my poll numbers.”
Trump’s 2016 campaign manager and top political adviser, Kellyanne Conway, shared promising news during an April Fox Business segment with economist Larry Kudlow.
The host cited polling data indicating that Trump was within striking distance of overtaking President Joe Biden in blue New York, which Conway said was a positive sign for the former president.
“What is going on is that Trump is actually expanding his coalition, core constituency, looks, feels different, larger and more diverse than in the past, 2016 and 2020. Why, Larry?” she began. “It includes more union households than in 2016 when that helped us win in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio.
“It includes more Hispanics and African Americans. It includes more women. Excuse me, he beat the queen bee herself, the would-be first woman president, while the majority of the voters were female. We’ve been the majority of the electorate since 1964. Even if he gets 4 percent more, 3 percent more,” she said.
“That New York Times/Sienna poll showing Biden leading Trump in New York by 10 points, where Biden won by 23 last time. If it is half right, Biden is in trouble,” Conway predicted while commenting on Trump’s recent interactions with crowds at a Harlem bodega and a midtown Manhattan construction site.