According to local media, Trump will go to the heart of the city, in an area the then Democratic candidate won in the disputed elections almost four years ago.
Strategists said the Bronx rally is about showing that Trump can draw crowds of supporters in an unexpected place.
Trump will rally his supporters in Crotona Park tonight. It will focus on how the Biden administration has put financial pressure on New York families and on the issue of crime, The Hill newspaper anticipated.
His campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that “President Trump will ease the financial pressures placed on households and restore law and order in New York.”
The former governor will challenge in a place that votes overwhelmingly Democratic, and any crowd he generates could boost media coverage at a time when his ability to campaign is limited by the trial, the newspaper noted.
For some Republican strategists, Trump’s move demonstrates why he is “a master of the media.”
Biden won New York state by about two million votes in 2020 and Bronx County with 84 percent of the ballots.
However, some Democrats, such as Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, warned that Trump “is holding a rally to try to scam people and try to take every dollar they have from them to fund his own legal fees.”
And, by the way, Cortez added, he is holding the rally in the South Bronx because the former president “practically walks around with a bracelet on his ankle,” due to the trial that forces him to be in court every day.
While turning New York red may be a pipe dream, Trump has openly talked about competing in traditionally Democratic states in November, and his campaign has considered Minnesota and Virginia in particular as potential targets.
During an interview at the beginning of the year, Trump anticipated that although “it seemed silly” he would make an intense play in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, New Mexico and Minnesota.
Trump traveled to Minnesota last week for a Republican dinner, a state he lost by two percentage points in 2016 and by seven to Biden in 2020. Historical records show that a presidential candidate from his party has not triumphed there since 1972.
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