Former President Donald J. Trump, who has been spending much of his time recently as a criminal defendant in a Manhattan courtroom, will be in a different New York borough next Thursday, when he will hold a campaign event in the Bronx.
The gathering is scheduled to take place at Crotona Park, his campaign announced in a statement on Friday evening, declaring that Mr. Trump would “ease the financial pressures placed on households and re-establish law and order in New York!”It is an unusual location for a Republican presidential campaign event: The area went for President Biden by about 77 percentage points in the 2020 election.
And despite a shift to the right in some of New York State’s congressional districts and neighborhoods, including in the Bronx, in recent years, the state as a whole is not considered a general-election battleground.
But Mr. Trump’s aides have been discussing an event in the South Bronx for weeks.
The gathering, they said, would not be a traditional rally.
Persons:
Donald J, Trump, Biden, Trump’s
Organizations:
Republican
Locations:
Manhattan, New York, Bronx, Crotona, South Bronx