He Former US President Donald Trump campaigned at home on Wednesday: he went to New York, a Democratic stronghold, which will lose the elections. presidential elections on November 5. There are 28 electoral votes that will go to Vice President Kamala Harris. Just as Texas’ 40 will go to Trump. Instead, the Republican went this afternoon to Uniondale, in Nassau County, on Long Island, to campaign in a New York district, in the district of Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, one of five new New York Republicans facing tough re-election battles. His victory is crucial for Republicans who are ahead of Democrats in congressional polls. In these Nov. 5 elections, not only is the White House at stake, but also a third of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputieswhere Republicans are currently in the majority.
Trump was received with a warm welcome on Wednesday at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, where more than 50,000 people requested tickets to see him.
Amid the maximum security measures, Trump appeared this Wednesday after stopping at a Manhattan bar where you can pay with bitcoin. Received with cheers and applause, Trump, who leads the congressional districts of Long Island, wanted to show his support for D’Esposito.
His ability to attract people to this area has caused D’Esposito’s opponent, Democrat Laura Gillen, to refuse to criticize the former Republican president.
On the other hand, New York strategists fear a repeat of the disaster of the 2022 midterm elections, in which the entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senate, crucial to the president, were renewed.
Then Democratic strategists blamed New York for losing the majority in that chamber because they thought they would win in the different districts, forgetting that congressional elections are different from White House elections.
In this case, Democrats themselves view 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 the residential neighborhoods of the Upper East Side, tend to vote Democratic.
President @realDonaldTrump en route to a rally at Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, New York 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/64ExmTKi2W
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That’s why Trump was in New York on Wednesday, while Democrats took notice: They launched a series of personal attacks on the former president that may work nationally but have not gone down well with New Yorkers in the various counties that support the former president.
