New York Trump supporters are optimistic that nan erstwhile president tin clinch nan highly wide authorities connected November 5.
Donald Trump is holding a rally astatine Madison Square Garden successful Manhattan Sunday evening successful a longshot bid to triumph complete voters successful nan Big Apple.
But supporters lined up hours up of his presence don't deliberation Trump winning successful 2024 is an impossibility.
'I deliberation it will beryllium person than ever. If he doesn't return it, it's gonna beryllium close,' Brooklynite Melissa Vitelli, 37, told DailyMail.com arsenic she waited to summation introduction into The Garden.
The rally will characteristic a stacked line-up of speakers including Elon Musk, UFC CEO Dana White, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., blimpish media characteristic Tucker Carlson and erstwhile NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
'I deliberation [the election] will beryllium person than ever. If [Trump] doesn't return it, it's gonna beryllium close,' Brooklynite Melissa Vitelli, 37, told DailyMail.com arsenic she waited to summation introduction into Sunday's rally
New Yorkers supporting Trump foretell he has a chance to return nan wide authorities that has voted bluish successful each statesmanlike predetermination since 1988
Some person questioned nan venue action pinch conscionable a spot complete a week until Election Day, but pro-MAGA New Yorkers are convinced Trump could propulsion it disconnected contempt nan authorities voting Democratic successful statesmanlike elections each azygous rhythm since 1988.
'I deliberation successful 2016 group said there's nary measurement Donald Trump would ever triumph nan United States, it's ne'er going to happen. New York is, successful a batch of ways, a reflector culturally of what's going on,' Michael Rydelek, 27, told DailyMail.com.
'And conscionable arsenic crazy arsenic nan triumph successful 2016 was, I deliberation we're looking astatine nan aforesaid point successful 2024,' nan Rockland County autochthonal speculated. 'You person a batch of group successful New York City that are alert thing needs to alteration and consenting to spell distant pinch that change. New York City's a large portion of that equation.'
'People say, 'why is Trump astatine Madison Square Garden?' Well he's making a play for New York,' Rydelek added.
Another New Yorker said that she thinks Trump has a changeable astatine different word aft she heard group openly talking astir casting their ballot for nan ex-president erstwhile she went to early voting connected Saturday.
'You person a batch of group successful New York City that are alert thing needs to alteration and consenting to spell distant pinch that change. New York City's a large portion of that equation,' Michael Rydelek, 27, told DailyMail.com. 'And conscionable arsenic crazy arsenic nan triumph successful 2016 was, I deliberation we're looking astatine nan aforesaid point successful 2024'
Thousands lined up extracurricular Madison Square Garden connected Sunday to get into nan arena for Donald Trump's rally conscionable 9 days earlier nan 2024 election
Gladys Picket, 80, of Westchester said she near her location astatine 7:30 a.m. to make it to The Garden to spot Trump speak conscionable 9 days earlier nan 2024 election.
'My area is very wide and nan group I americium surrounded by are,' nan Puerto Rican-American said. 'Yesterday, erstwhile I went to ballot I was amazed to spot nan demeanor of group waiting successful line. And it was astonishing to spot group really talking openly astir voting for Trump.'
Vitelli said she's moreover seen a displacement successful her Brooklyn vicinity moreover though a New York Times/Siena College poll released connected Saturday shows Brooklyn going 60 percent for Harris and 33 percent for Trump.
Gladys Picket, 80, of Westchester said she heard group talking astatine early voting connected Saturday astir voting for Donald Trump moreover successful her highly wide neighborhood
'I unrecorded successful a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood, Borough Park – they person Trump flags up. They're comparatively known for voting Democrat. And it is, it has shifted,' Vitelli said.
'It was really bully to see, actually,' she continued. 'And they understand that, you know, nan corruption is deep.'
'There's decidedly much of a shift,' Vitelli said of Brooklyn's governmental leanings from 2016 to 2020 and past from 2020 to nan predetermination this year.
'I deliberation nan media had a batch to do pinch it,' she added. 'The much antagonistic they are towards him, nan much it wakes group up. Like, okay, he's being targeted. And we consciousness arsenic citizens, like, if he could get targeted, truthful tin we.'
Vitelli already formed her ballot for Trump connected Saturday arsenic early voting kicked disconnected successful New York.