‘He’s obsessed’: Why Donald Trump is prepared to pay a fortune to host a rally at MSG | EUROtoday

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Donald Trump is reportedly fixated on internet hosting a rally at New York City’s well-known Madison Square Garden area, regardless of most political specialists believing the Empire State and even Trump’s hometown of New York City are squarely within the blue column for 2024.

“I’m gonna fill the Garden,” he reportedly boased in latest days to a confidant, who spoke anonymously to The Bulwark.

The Trump ally added that the Republican “has just been obsessed with this for at least a year. This is his campaign. So it’s happening.”

The Independent has contacted the Trump marketing campaign for remark.

The marketing campaign plans to host a rally on the Garden on October 27, lower than two weeks earlier than Election Day, although Trump misplaced New York by greater than 20 factors within the earlier two presidential elections, with the newest polling exhibiting he’s most likely due for one more thumping.

So why hassle going huge in a state that hasn’t gone Republican since Reagan? There are a couple of believable causes.

One may merely be for hometown delight.

Trump, regardless of altering his authorized residency to Florida in 2020, was born in New York City, and nonetheless derives a part of his political enchantment from his (usually exaggerated) profession as a New York actual property developer.

Another could be a mixture of that delight plus the previous president’s fondness for doing issues folks say he can’t.

“We just rented Madison Square Garden,” Trump mentioned with evident glee final week at a rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania. “We’re going to make a play for New York.”

“When I told some people in Washington, ‘I’m going up to New York, we’re doing a campaign speech,’ they said, ‘What do you mean, New York? You can’t ever — nobody can win. Republicans can’t win,’” Trump added at a rally final month in Long Island, New York. “I said, ‘I can win New York, and we can win New York.’ We’re going to win.”

A triumphant MSG spectacle may also change a distinct reminiscence Trump has within the area. During a 2019 look at an Ultimate Fighting Championship bout, the then-president was reportedly showered with boos and unfavorable indicators, and Trump is known for holding onto previous slights.

Appearing in a state can produce other advantages past successful it, too.

Trump’s presence in New York may assist out Republicans on down-ballot races, or name consideration to signature points, like the previous president utilizing a latest rally in sapphire-blue California to hit out at his Golden State rival on the marketing campaign path, Kamala Harris.

Finally, from the person whose marketing campaign introduced you the $399 gold ‘Never Surrender’ high-top sneakers and a $100,000 bejeweled “victory” watch, the New York rally may be a method to increase some sorely wanted marketing campaign money, what with the Harris marketing campaign cruising to greater than $1bn in fundraising sooner than every other in U.S. historical past.

The Trump marketing campaign is promoting an “Ultra MAGA Experience” for guests to the rally that prices almost $1m, although it has offered nearly no particulars on what the expertise entails.

Whatever it means to go Ultra MAGA, the marketing campaign is definitely hoping to pack the world for Trump’s huge assertion, regardless of efforts from on-line pranksters to order tickets then be no-shows.