Trump appealed to New Yorkers, echoing a line from 2016 when he tried to win over black voters.
Donald Trump vowed to “win New York” in the 2024 presidential election during a campaign stop in Uniondale on Wednesday. The former president lost his home state twice, once in 2016 and again in 2020, and New York has voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1984.
In an attempt to portray himself as a champion of the working class, Trump pointed to a national poll of truckers that showed a majority of union members support him. However, the truckers announced Wednesday that the union does not endorse either candidate, and several local chapters, including the Long Island chapter, have publicly endorsed Harris.
Elsewhere in his campaign speech, Trump repeated his usual fear-mongering tactics, targeting illegal immigrants and false election claims, likening the United States to a “third world country.” Speaking to New Yorkers, Trump said, “With crime at record highs, terrorists and criminals flooding in, inflation eating away at your heart, vote for Donald Trump. What do you have to lose? What do you have to lose?” It was a line he used when trying to appeal to black voters during his 2016 White House campaign.
In response to Trump’s remarks on Wednesday, the internet took it upon itself to respond to the former president. In a post shared on social media, Rep. Adam Schiff responded: “Years of progress on climate. The return of high-tech manufacturing. Our standing around the world. The Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Social Security. Our democracy. Let’s not find out.”
Trump’s hate-filled rhetoric has reached new heights in the wake of his disastrous debate against Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this month. After parroting J.D. Vance’s racist lie about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, Trump pleaded ignorance while refusing to condemn bomb threats in Springfield and doubling down on his claim that the city was “taken over by illegal immigrants.”
