Trump adviser unpacks why former president is holding rally in deep-blue state weeks from election
It's not a presidential battleground, but New York State is front-and-center in the battle for the House majority
By Paul Steinhauser Fox News
3 min read| Published September 18, 2024 2:48pm EDT
UNIONDALE, New York — It's been 40 years since a Republican nominee has carried New York state in a presidential election.
You have to go back to President Ronald Reagan, who won the state as part of his landslide re-election victory in 1984.
But that's not stopping former President Trump from holding a rally Wednesday in his native state, which he has no serious chance of carrying in his election faceoff with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump's rally in Uniondale is in Long Island's Nassau County, a longtime Republican stronghold in the reliably blue state of New York.
And it's Trump's second large campaign event this year, after drawing a big crowd in the New York City borough of the Bronx in May.
While there was some chatter of New York potentially being in play as President Biden's poll numbers started cratering following his disastrous late-June debate performance against Trump, the conversation was fleeting and quickly dissipated when Harris replaced Biden atop the Democrats' 2024 ticket.
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