Former President Donald Trump, challenging the conventional notion that winning New York as Republican presidential candidate is an impossibility, will host a rally in New York City on October 27.
According to the New York Post, Trump’s rally will be held in Manhattan at Madison Square Garden, known as “The World’s Most Famous Arena.” The venue is located between Seventh and Eighth Avenues and 31st to 33rd Street and hosted the Republican National Convention in 2004 and the Democratic National Convention in 1976, 1980, and 1992.
In September, Trump’s rally at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island drew roughly 16,000 people, The New York Post noted, adding, “The former president’s Bronx rally over the summer brought up to 10,000 Trump supporters to Crotona Park, which had a permit allowance of 3,500 people.”
As far back as February, Trump said of New York, “Do I think we have a chance? New York has changed a lot in the last two years. We have migrants all over the street. They are living on Madison Avenue.”
“Nobody can believe what’s happened to New York,” he continued. “The people of New York are angry. People that would have never voted for me because I’m a Republican. I mean, they’re Democrats. Their parents were Democrats. They would vote for Democrats. I think they’re going to vote for me. So I think we’re going to give New York a heavy shot.