Former President Donald Trump plans to hold a campaign event at Madison Square Garden in New York City, he is planning his event for Oct. 27 to kick off the final week of campaigning,
At a rally held in Scranton, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, the Presidential candidate revealed: “We have some very big ones coming. We just rented Madison Square Garden. We’re going to make a play for New York.”
He said his campaign is also looking to rent arenas in Atlanta, Georgia and New Jersey.
“How could New York be run worse than it is?” he said, an apparent reference to Democratic Mayor Eric Adams’ recent indictment on corruption charges.
Ronald Reagan, in 1984, was the last Republican to carry New York in a presidential race, however Trump believes he can win New York, even though it is overwhelmingly Democratic and he has lost the state in the last two elections by more than 20 percentage points.
He disclosed he also plans to reinforce his efforts in the Democratic strongholds of Minnesota and New Jersey, and the more purple states of Virginia and New Mexico.
The former president alluded that his chances of becoming the first Republican in modern history to win Minnesota have increased since Vice President Kamala Harris tapped the state’s governor, Tim Walz, as her running mate.
“You know why I am doing well in Minnesota?” he said. “Because he is running.”
In between stops to critical battleground states like Pennsylvania and North Carolina, Trump will be traveling this week to states that aren’t seen as competitive.
On Friday, he will visit Aurora, Colorado, a town that has become a flashpoint in the debate over the influx of migrants who have entered the country in recent years. Democrat Joe Biden won Colorado in 2020 with 55% of the vote.
This summer, Aurora’s mayor repeated a landlord’s claim that a notorious Venezuelan gang had taken over a rundown apartment complex in the Denver suburb, even though police have said that isn’t true.
Trump and other Republicans have nonetheless seized on the claims, with Trump saying during a Fox News town hall that Venezuelans were “taking over the whole town” and telling rallygoers that, if elected, he will deploy federal resources to “liberate” the town.
Sources:
Associated Press (AP)
Washington Times.
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