Donald Trump returns to New York within the ultimate stretch of the race, scheduling a rally on the metropolis’s iconic Madison Sq. Backyard.
Trump is planning his occasion for Oct. 27 to kick off the ultimate week of the marketing campaign, in line with a marketing campaign official conversant in the plans who spoke on situation of anonymity forward of a proper announcement.
It will likely be Trump’s second rally within the metropolis the place he grew up, following a Could cease within the South Bronx that drew a big, numerous crowd.
Trump has lengthy believed he can win New York, although it’s overwhelmingly Democratic, and he has misplaced the state within the final two elections by greater than 20 share factors. However Trump additionally loves internet hosting occasions that entice monumental media consideration, like one held on the so-called most well-known stadium on the planet.
Between stops in crucial states like Pennsylvania and North Carolina, Trump will journey this week to states that aren’t thought-about aggressive.
On Friday, he’ll go to Aurora, Colorado, a metropolis that has turn into a flashpoint within the debate over the inflow of migrants who’ve entered the nation in recent times. Democrat Joe Biden received Colorado in 2020 with 55% of the vote.
This summer time, Aurora’s mayor repeated a home-owner’s declare {that a} infamous Venezuelan gang had taken over a dilapidated residence advanced within the Denver suburb, though police have stated that’s not true.
Nonetheless, Trump and different Republicans have seized on the claims, with Trump saying throughout a city corridor on Fox Information that Venezuelans had been “taking management of the whole metropolis” and telling rally attendees that if elected, he’ll deploy assets federal forces to “liberate” town.
On Saturday he’ll maintain a rally in Coachella, California, dwelling of a significant annual out of doors music pageant. Trump misplaced California within the final two elections by about 30 share factors.
