Posted on 05/11/2024 9:13:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
[WILDWOOD, N.J.] Former President Donald J. Trump returned to South Jersey as he continues to put the Garden State in play. He held a Saturday night rally for 100,000 Trump supporters, who packed out the Wildwood Beach boardwalk, beachfront, and bars and restaurants, in addition to the more than 20,000 tickets distributed for inside the fences.
Read: Trump Drawing Thousands to Rally in Wildwood As People Camp Out on New Jersey Beach Overnight
Trump Rally Draws Between 80-100k on the Beach in Wildwood, NJ; May Be 'Largest' in 'State History'
“Even on television, they said [it] might be the biggest political rally they’ve ever seen,” said the former president.
“We will win New Jersey,” he said.
“If we win New Jersey, we win the whole thing,” he said. “I think we’re going to win some others, actually.”
The former president said his campaign is expanding the map beyond the Garden State to include Virginia and Minnesota, the latter of which was last won by a Republican in 1952.
Trump said if President Joseph R. Biden Jr. wins the election, the middle class loses and New Jersey loses.
“If Trump wins the middle class, the people of lower-income are really going to start winning again—and you’re all going to the American Dream,” Trump said.
There is some reason for optimism in the Trump camp; Emerson College conducted a poll from March 26 through March 29, with Biden leading Trump, 46 percent to 39 percent, with 15 percent undecided.
It is an old saw that undecided voters break for the challenger, which would put Trump in the lead over his successor.
The last Republican to win New Jersey was Vice President George H.W. Bush in 1988. Then, Bush beat Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, 57 percent to 43 percent. In 1992, Arkansas Gov. William J. Clinton beat Bush, 56 percent to 40 percent, and through the 2020 contest, when Biden beat Trump, 57 percent to 41 percent, that roughly 15-point margin has held remarkably steady for the Democratic standard bearers.
Trump’s 2020 Wildwood was in a different time, place
The rally was Trump’s first rally in New Jersey, since his Jan. 28, 2020, rally held at the Wildwood Convention Center here.
It is strange to look back at photos of that first Wildwood rally with no one wearing masks. Three days later, the president would ban Chinese travelers from entering the US.
Throughout Trump’s term, the mainstream media was constantly harping on the negatives, but Trump’s actual economic record was outstanding, and it was not just the unemployment below 4 percent.
In Trump’s first three years in office, the economy grew 500,000 new manufacturing jobs, grew median income 2.3 percent, held regulations to roughly at a standstill, and reduced poverty, such that Food Stamps participation dropped 15 percent.
Then, the president was the master of a growing economy, with an approval rating of 49 percent, which matched the highest ratings of his presidency. He maintained that approval until the second half of May 2020, when it dropped 10 points to 30 percent.
By the week before the 2020 election, Trump’s approval rating rallied to 46 percent.
As of May 5, in the Real Clear Politics polling average, Trump holds a 46 percent to 44 percent lead over President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
When RCP teases out the Electoral College, Trump and Biden are in a virtual tie with Trump winning 219 electoral votes and Biden winning 215, leaving 104 electoral votes in toss-up states.
However, when RCP forces the toss-ups to the likely winner, Trump commands an Electoral College lead of 312 to 226.
Every Trump rally features MAGA luminaries, such as New York Giants Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor, former New Jersey congressional candidate and Live From America host Mike Crispi, and Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R.-NJ), who switched parties just moments after voting against Trump’s first impeachment.
Another guest could have significance in the pending veepstakes, as North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum was one of the former president’s opening act—and a guest on the plane, Trump Force One.
Burgum seemed to relish the audition for the traditional role of the vice presidential nominee as the attack dog on the ticket.
The governor told the crowd Biden’s policy towards Israel was a disgrace.
In the past, it was the policy of the United States to never negotiate with terrorists, but not with Biden. “Now, he’s negotiating for the terrorists.”
The governor said Biden was undermining Israel to win support from the Hamas wing of the Democratic Party.
As the sun dropped and the wind picked up, Trump said he marveled at how the crowd was sticking around.
It could be the tens of thousands stuck around for the real Trump rally payoff, when Trump wraps up his speech and walks off to Sam and Dave’s “Hold On, I’m Coming.”
The former president always lingers on stage, waving and clapping with the cheers of the crowd—especially when he clenches his two fists and performs his modified Twist.
It was all worth it.
The will of the citizens is something that makes Globalists unhappy........
it was the most amazing to watch!!!
So true.
And no riots, Pelosi is slipping.
The black election monitors who hang out at the polls to ensure blacks vote Democrat need to change that up and encourage their fellow area residents to vote for Trump and Republicans instead. You win Philly, you win PA. You win Atlanta, you win Georgia. All it take is to win one city and you win the state. That’s why popular voting sucks. There is no way to mitigate cheating.
That’s the key to the 2024 election cycle.
It was even worse in 2020 and Biden still won. The people craving Trump’s form of “entertainment” at these rallies do not represent the general populace.
I think Connecticut is in play. In October, Biden led Trump by 9 points. CT-5 might flip.
Joe finished his “kindly old man w/ faulty memory” act (to escape jail for mishandling classifieds).
Now Joenothing is into his “I’m a trusted beacon of Democrat leadership” reelection act.
Must be time for his “resurrect my dead war hero son” act, a proven vote-getter any moron in Delaware can tell ya.
Hope photo was sent to Biden
Yes his repetition of lies must be what caused him to go crazy long ago he needs to be on a happy farm asap.
Trump needs a rally in Central Connecticut...
Keep in mind..... all of Biden’s political braggadaccio
about the “thriving economy” was pre-planned months ago.
At that time Biden figured waging eternal lawfare would have Trump safely out of
the way and he ....Bidumb..... would have the political bragging rights all to himself.
But, much to his dismay, Trump is still in there.....
winning all the polls.......and pestering him to debate.
How hollow and vainglorious Bidumb sounds against that backdrop.
I've scoffed at Trump's "biggest crowd ever" comments but, not gonna lie, this one was massive.
Anyways, gotta hand it to The Pacific with their Babylon Bee-level satire.
Absolutely. He won't win Illinois but it doesn't matter.
He won't win NY, NJ or CA either but if he can turn previous 20-30 point losses in to 10-15 point losses, those numbers will reverberate across the country, winning him every swing state and likely the popular vote as well.
Not too many Republicans have or can win in NJ statewide. Among the last lengthy officeholders were Clifford P. Case, Christine Todd Whitman, and Chris Christie, none of whom were or are conservative. They replaced Case in the 1978 primary, and then Bill Bradley beat the late Jeff Bell for the Senate seat.
MN went for Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, when Nixon won all states but MA. Reagan won MA in 1984 but not Mondale’s MN.
Agree everything he’s done has caused chaos it’s not by accident it’s planed the greater danger point lays ahead if he and party rigs this election.
Bibi knows it too he’s being trapped now.
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