REALLY?
The BRONX?
A place the ex-President with Secret Service and NYPD doing the security said ‘he was worried’ …’he might never return from’ ?
Ah?
The Bronx is NEVER gonna vote for Donald Trump….
This political stunt will be a waste of time, money and manpower….
(I’m sure his campaign IS looking for few Black or Latino that would catch the media’s eye for headline images…)
Former President Donald J. Trump, who has been spending much of his time recently as a criminal defendant in a Manhattan courtroom, will be in a different New York borough next Thursday, when he will hold a campaign event in the Bronx.
The gathering is scheduled to take place at Crotona Park, his campaign announced in a statement on Friday evening, declaring that Mr. Trump would “ease the financial pressures placed on households and re-establish law and order in New York!”
It is an unusual location for a Republican presidential campaign event: The area went for President Biden by about 77 percentage points in the 2020 election. And despite a shift to the right in some of New York State’s congressional districts and neighborhoods, including in the Bronx, in recent years, the state as a whole is not considered a general-election battleground.
But Mr. Trump’s aides have been discussing an event in the South Bronx for weeks. The gathering, they said, would not be a traditional rally….
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The former president told donors at a Manhattan fund-raiser this week that he was planning something in the South Bronx, making a joke that he might get hurt in the neighborhood.
“We’re going to have a tremendous rally. You may never see me again,” he said, prompting laughter, according to an attendee who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private event. “That could be a tricky one.”
Representative Ritchie Torres, a New York Democrat who represents the South Bronx, wrote on social media that the area had “no greater enemy than Donald Trump,” casting him as a threat to the social safety net “on which Bronx families depend for their survival.”….
image….Former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday outside a bodega in Harlem where a clerk fatally stabbed a man in 2022.Credit…Anna Watts for The New York Times