Former President Donald Trump predicted Thursday he might be able to win New York state in the 2024 election, saying the campaign will “make a play” to the typically blue state.
The former president has mostly remained in New York, his home state, for more than a week while he has to make mandatory court appearances in his so-called “hush-money” trial in Manhattan.
“Traditionally, a Democrat would win New York, but we’ve seen some new polls and I think we’re gonna do very well in New York,” President Trump told reporters on Thursday morning at a campaign stop at a Manhattan construction site, adding that other polls suggest he is leading in “every swing state.” A crowd of union workers chanted “four more years” along with the former president’s name, according to on-site reporters.
“It’s an amazing show of affection,” President Trump said at around 6:30 a.m., or three hours before Thursday’s trial is slated to start. “The Teamsters union loves me. We’ve built a lot of great buildings with the Teamsters. They’re very, very talented people. We used to do three floors a week in concrete on these buildings, and that’s because of these guys here.”
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