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“If a New Yorker can’t save this country, no one can,” Donald Trump informed cheering crowds of supporters at a rally in Crotona Park within the South Bronx, a famously Democratic space, on Thursday night.

At the occasion, the primary time the previous president has rallied in his hometown for eight years, Mr Trump mentioned he was “thrilled” to be again campaigning in New York City, which he modestly claimed he had “helped build”.

Despite heavy rain earlier within the day, a number of thousand Maga loyalists gathered within the park within the primarily Hispanic and Black neighborhood, a venue that highlighted the previous president’s effort to chip away at President Joe Biden’s base amongst minority voters.

Over the course of virtually two hours, Mr Trump coated all his favorite bases, overseas coverage, immigration and himself. At one level he informed crowds that he had “OD’d” (overdosed) on himself, after showing on tv and within the information too usually.

It comes after one other huge week for the Republican within the US courts.

Manhattan prosecutors and protection attorneys rested their circumstances in his high-profile hush cash trial whereas, in Florida, a listening to in Mr Trump’s labeled paperwork case devolved right into a chaotic shouting match.

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Trump performs the hits at throwback South Bronx rally

Here’s the previous president celebrating his return to New York on Truth Social final night time:

He largely performed the hits in his Crotona Park handle, calling for Hillary Clinton to be “locked up” and quoting anti-migrant fable “The Snake” prefer it’s 2016 and telling his supporters that the New York City subway is “worse than a third world country”.

Trump additionally lied that he was simply three weeks away from finishing his Mexican border wall (ha!) when he was tossed out of the White House, lied about Black unemployment statistics throughout his administration, promised the biggest deportation operation in American historical past ought to he get again in, pledged to indemnify law enforcement officials and praised Hungarian authoritarian Viktor Orban.

Oh, and he additionally claimed that the alleged homicide of Israeli hostages by Hamas wouldn’t have occurred if the 2020 American presidential election had not been “rigged” in opposition to him.

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Reports counsel Trump has realized abortion is an enormous downside for him in presidential race

The Biden marketing campaign is sharpening its edge on the broader problem of reproductive freedom as their ideological rivals proceed to flounder within the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2022 resolution overturning Roe vs Wade.

While a unified stance on the problem of abortion continues to elude the GOP, Democrats are mounting a full-scale assault. Hammering their opponents over a century-old abortion ban in Arizona and new restrictions put into place in Florida, the incumbent president’s social gathering enjoys a transparent strategic benefit along with their polling lead on the problem: Republicans can’t resolve whether or not or to not pursue a ban on abortion on the nationwide stage.

The social gathering stays break up, even with Donald Trump on the helm saying that he wouldn’t help such laws.

John Bowden studies from Washington, DC:

Oliver O’Connell24 May 2024 08:15

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In photos: Trump handle the Bronx

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Mike Bedigan24 May 2024 07:00

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Every GOP lawmaker who signaled they gained’t settle for 2024 election outcomes

The race is all however sure to be a rematch of the 2020 contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, which ended with a transparent victory for the Democrat however that Mr Trump refused to simply accept.

Will or not it’s “deja vu all over again” as Yogi Berra famously mentioned?

Oliver O’Connell24 May 2024 06:15

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Lara Trump is shaping the RNC in her father in legislation’s picture — not everyone seems to be joyful…

“My No. 1 goal is making sure that Donald Trump is the 47th president,” mentioned Lara Trump, the RNC co-chair, in an s interview with Associated Press.

It’s yet one more step in solidifying Trump‘s maintain over the Republican Party. The daughter-in-law of the previous president has wasted no time in rebranding the sometimes staid committee in Trump‘s picture, embracing her personal model of his pugilistic politics and brash administration fashion in ways in which affirm his sway over the Republican institution.

Oliver O’Connell24 May 2024 04:15

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Trump slammed voting rights for felons in 2016. Now he could turn into one…

Donald Trump has lengthy known as for convicted felons to be banned from voting within the US.

Gustaf Kilander seems at what the legislation says about felons and voting…

Oliver O’Connell24 May 2024 03:15

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Watch: Trump counter-rally within the Bronx

Trump counter-rally within the Bronx

Mike Bedigan24 May 2024 02:45

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Republicans shoot down bipartisan border safety invoice… once more

John Bowden studies from Washington, DC:

A bipartisan piece of immigration and border safety laws died once more on the Senate flooring on Thursday after Republicans blocked a invoice meant to clamp down on the variety of migrants allowed to assert asylum on the US-Mexico border.

The laws is now useless for a second time after failing a procedural vote with 42 Democrats and one Republican voting in favor of contemplating the invoice; and 6 Democrats, one unbiased and 42 Republicans voting in opposition to.

The invoice, negotiated by a bipartisan group of senators, was already rejected by most Republicans in February when it was linked to a overseas help bundle for Ukraine, Israel and different US allies.

Oliver O’Connell24 May 2024 02:15

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Hush cash trial: If Trump is convicted, what sort of jail sentence might he face?

Joe Sommerlad takes a have a look at what he would possibly face:

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Mike Bedigan24 May 2024 00:10

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