Former US President Donald Trump addressed a historic rally on Thursday in the Democratic party stronghold Bronx neighbourhood in New York City, where he claimed that immigrants from Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere were “building an army” to attack Americans “from within.”
“Almost everyone is a male and they look like fighting age. I think they’re building an army,” the Republican presidential candidate said to a few thousand supporters who gathered to hear him in the South Bronx’s Crotona Park. “They want to get us from within.” “We are not going to let these people come in and take our city away from us and take our country away,” Trump said, vowing to carry out “the largest criminal deportation operation in our country’s history” if re-elected to the White House.
Trump did something tonight that no other Republican candidate has done in 40 years—campaign in the Bronx.It was bold. It was creative.
It was also a giant welcome sign to Hispanics and blacks who are considering voting Republican for the first time. And it will work. pic.twitter.com/H2wwcghwbj
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 24, 2024
Trump also sought to tie record levels of migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally with the economic plight of Black and Hispanic voters, arguing, without evidence, that migrants were taking their jobs. Trump is locked in a tight race with Democratic President Joe Biden ahead of the Nov. 5 election. The Bronx rally was part of his effort to exploit Biden’s weakening support among Hispanic and Black voters.
Roughly 55% of Bronx County residents are Hispanic and about one-third are Black, and the crowd on Thursday was more racially mixed than his usual rallies, which are predominantly white. Trump’s campaign had a permit for up to 3,500 people to attend the rally, the New York City Parks Department said. Recent polls suggest that Trump is gaining ground with Blacks and Hispanics, who were critical to Biden’s win in 2020.
Trump strategists see a chance to grab enough of their votes to make the difference in swing states in November. “It’s historic that he’s here,” said Steven Suarez, 46, who is Puerto Rican, a reference to Trump being the first Republican presidential candidate to make a stop in the Bronx since Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. “He could have gone anywhere in New York City. He could have gone to Manhattan. He chose to come here,” he was quoted as saying by Reuters.
(With agency inputs)
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