Donald Trump headed into hostile territory Thursday for a rare rally in deeply Democratic New York — hoping to woo Black and Latino voters whose support for Joe Biden has shown signs of faltering.
The event, in an area where the Republican ex-president was trounced in 2020, follows a trend of Trump sorties into traditionally liberal states, most recently in New Jersey and Minnesota.
But his speech in the South Bronx is more about signaling that he can draw large crowds among Hispanics and the African American coalition seen as crucial to Biden’s hopes of retaining the White House.
In his first rally in his former hometown since 2016, Trump was expected to focus on crime and tough economic conditions in one of the most Democratic and diverse US neighborhoods, where almost two-thirds of residents are Hispanic and one-third Black.
As anticipation built for Trump’s arrival, a line almost a mile long snaked through the…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
