Trump in Madison Square Garden
By
Byron York
October 27, 2024 9:26 am
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TRUMP IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. New York — Former President Donald Trump‘s six-week trial here in April and May meant that he spent more time in New York, more consecutive days, than he had in a very long time. He worked out ways to campaign while having to appear in court. He created an event in a bodega. He delivered pizzas at a firehouse. He stopped by a construction site. Each got a lot of coverage.
Then, on May 23, a week before his conviction, he held a rally in the South Bronx. It was big — estimates ranged from 8,000 to 10,000 people, while Trump said it was 25,000. “We had 25,000 people in the South Bronx,” Trump told me during a talk in June. “That crowd was incredible.” Then he added: “I’m going to Madison Square Garden, too.”
The plan, in its early stages, was still under wraps, aides insisted. But now it is happening. Trump, the native New Yorker, born and raised in Queens, moved to Manhattan to make it big, is holding a rally Sunday evening in the heart of his hometown, which also just happens to be the heart of political opposition to Donald Trump. For Trump, going into deep-blue Manhattan is going into political enemy territory that also happens to be his home.
In 2020, Trump lost Manhattan to Joe Biden with 14.5% of the vote to Biden’s 84.5%. Trump’s 14.5% was actually an improvement over 2016, when he won just 10% of the vote in Manhattan, to Hillary Clinton’s 86%.
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