Donald Trump is taking for granted that he will win the Republican presidential nominee as the former president looks ahead to key battles in the general election.
Not only does Trump seem to think that he can win the very blue state of New York, from which he hails, but he said in a recent interview with Breitbart News that he may hold a rally at Madison Square Garden.
“I’m going to make a heavy play for New York, heavy play for New Jersey, heavy play for Virginia, heavy play for New Mexico, and a heavy play for a state that hasn’t been won in years, Minnesota,” Trump said. “I’m going to do rallies, I’m going to do speeches, I’m going to work them. That doesn’t mean I’m going to work them as hard as I work in Pennsylvania, where I’m doing very well.
“But we’re going to do these other states too, and it will be a heavy move,” he added. “I may rent Madison Square Garden and that’s the belly of the beast, right?”
Trump may be influenced by the welcome he received back in November when he entered a MMA fight being held there like a boss, walking alongside UFC President Dana White, while iconic rocker Kid Rock and Tucker Carlson trailed just steps behind
It remains to be seen if the fight crowd is a fair representation of the state as a whole.
“We have some very good people there,” Trump said of New York, naming U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) among them.
“So, I believe we have a chance to win New York. I believe we have a chance to win New Jersey,” Trump said. “If you look at Lee, he lost by a pretty close race. But it’s 100 times worse now than it was two years ago. Now, you have people — you have migrants living on Madison Avenue. You can’t get into a hospital. You can’t get into a school. You go to a public school and half the kids are sitting there and have no idea what the teacher is saying. You can’t get into these schools.”
“I think it’s really bad and I think the people in New York and New Jersey and a lot of these states are — it would have been semi-unthinkable but I think these are states that can be won,” he continued.
Trump built his real estate empire in New York, but he told Breitbart News, “It’s a different place from when I left.”
“I left New York 8 years ago,” he said. “We had already suffered from De Blasio a little bit. But it hadn’t been long enough. He was a horrible mayor. He was the worst mayor in the history of New York. We were suffering from De Blasio a little bit but it was eight years ago when I left, and when I left it was the hottest thing. Now, you look at it and what they’ve done to that beautiful place is just horrible. So, I think I have a chance there. I will spend time that I would normally not be working on New York and New Jersey and other places.”
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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