He former US president Donald Trump campaigned this Wednesday at home: he has been in New York, a Democratic stronghold, which will lose in the presidential elections on November 5. There are 28 electoral votes that will go to Vice President Kamala Harris. Just like the 40 from Texas will go to Trump. Instead, the Republican has been in Uniondale in Nassau County on Long Island this afternoon, campaigning in a New York district in the district of Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, one of five rookie New York Republicans facing tough battles for re-election. His victory is critical for Republicans who are ahead of Democrats in congressional polls. In these November 5 elections, not only the White House is at stake, but also a third of the Senate and the House of Representativeswhere Republicans currently have a majority.
Trump was received this Wednesday with a warm welcome at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, where more than 50,000 people have requested tickets to see him.
Among maximum security measures, Trump appeared this Wednesday after stopping at a bar in Manhattan where you can pay with bitcoin. Received among cheers and applause, Trump, who leads in the Long Island congressional districts, wanted to show his support for D’Esposito.
His ability to attract people in this area has meant that D’Esposito’s opponent, Democrat Laura Gillen, has refused to criticize the former Republican president.
On the other hand, New York strategists fear that the 2022 disaster of the midterm elections could be repeated, in which the entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senate, essential for the president, were renewed.
Then, Democratic strategists blamed New York for losing the majority in this chamber, because the strategists assumed they would win in the different districts, forgetting that Congressional elections are different than White House elections.
In this case, the Democrats themselves consider the New York districts into which Congress is divided as battlegrounds, because voters in Lon Island and the Hudson Valley tend to be more conservative than those in Manhattan, which with the exception of residential neighborhood on the Upper East Side, tend to vote Democratic.
President @realDonaldTrump en route to a rally at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, New York 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/64ExmTKi2W
— Margo Martin (@margommartin) September 18, 2024
For this reason, Trump was in New York this Wednesday, while the Democrats have taken note: they have issued a series of personal attacks against the former president, which may work on a national scale, but have not gone down well with New Yorkers in the different counties. who support the former president.
