‘Neither Biden, Schumer, AOC nor any other Democrat could bring out the crowd that Trump will summon this week,’ predict Young Republican leaders.
By Gavin Wax & Troy Olson, Contributors | The National Pulse
NY-based conservative political activist, commentator, columnist, operative and strategist Wax is executive director of the National Constitutional Law Union, president of the NYYRC and ambassador for Turning Point USA & TPA Live Action.
Olson is a U.S. Army veteran, attorney and sergeant-at-arms for the NYYRC and co-founder of the Veterans Caucus. He lives in New York City with his wife and son. Wax and Olson co-authored the recently published bestseller “The Emerging Populist Majority.”
Last weekend, up to 100,000 people gathered on the beach in Wildwood, New Jersey, to hear the 45th and increasingly likely 47th President of the United States address a campaign rally held in defiance of constant lawfare, media attacks, and regime threats facing President Trump.
Despite the hysterics of the Democrats and their media lackeys, they cannot deny the inevitable: they are losing the 2024 presidential election.
To follow up on the Wildwood rally, President Trump announced he would visit the South Bronx, welcoming thousands as a testament to his unwavering determination.
PROJECTING RESILIENCE.
President Trump’s campaign strategy, undeterred by Democrat lawfare and an oppressive courtroom, is a testament to his resilience. Rather than retreating to Trump Tower, he stands strong, surrounded by genuine American grassroots patriots.
His surprise appearances near the Manhattan courtroom and throughout super-blue New York City have forced even people like CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria and pseudo-conservative commentators at places like The Dispatch to admit what the American grassroots have known for months: barring a Harry Truman-like upset by Biden, President Donald J. Trump will be re-elected with clear majorities in both the Electoral College and popular vote.
At a minimum, rallies like the one in Wildwood and the upcoming one in the South Bronx will demonstrate the authenticity and popular appeal of President Trump, even in areas where the media assures Americans he has no semblance of popular support.
Crucially, they also serve an Electoral College strategy. Tens of thousands in New Jersey came from the Philadelphia metro area and elsewhere in Pennsylvania, now a must-win state for Joe Biden.
President Trump now stands to reverse history and Ronald Reagan’s 1980 visit to the South Bronx, the last time a Republican presidential candidate ventured there.
It is worth noting that Reagan still won New York in November of 1980, overcoming an incumbent president who had steered the nation into disastrous inflation.
A New Yorker like Trump, who has aced recent trips to bodegas and firehouses and has spent much of his career around blue-collar workers at construction sites, will fare much better than the Californian former actor while injecting life into New York Republican politics.
UNITE THE NATION.
Lawfare has not kept Trump from campaigning as Democrats hoped; it has only increased the demand and encouraged the Trump populist base.
A rally in the South Bronx reinforces three aspects of President Trump that make him not just a better candidate for this moment than other Republicans but also a better contender to unite the country behind a coherent vision of the future than the divisive Joe Biden could.
President Trump talks about the issues, and those who listen to him directly rather than media falsehoods can attest to that; President Trump is honest about the challenges that face America, and he uses humor and an approachable tone that contrasts Biden’s totalitarian cinematic backdrops and declarations that half the country are enemies of the state.
President Trump speaks to everybody the same, and he is willing to campaign anywhere.
America needs a president willing to go into the heart of his opponents’ territory and earn the support of all Americans.
Democrats have governed New York City and dominated the vote in the Bronx for decades, but there is little to show for improved outcomes for the people. There is no equivalent for this on the Democratic side. A Democrat for president will not campaign in deep red areas.
Their party decided long ago to leave those parts of America behind in pursuit of the professional class, urban coalition, and globalist vision of the future.
Yet even in those blue hubs and areas, there exists some of the highest economic inequality in the country, considerable crime, and diminishing quality of life as illegals directly compete with New Yorkers for vital services.
This is why members of the South Bronx community will appear in droves this week to listen to Donald Trump’s America First message and vision.
Neither Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, AOC, nor any other Democrat could bring the crowd out that Trump will summon this week. And this offensive posture for the Trump campaign is why 2024 is shaping up to be his best campaign yet.
This campaign represents the most potent version of the populist-led coalition reshaping American politics and the best opportunity to spur the country off its 50-50 stalemate.
In the coming months, as the race turns to the summer, one can envision targeted rallies and events that expand the map while contesting the battleground states that Biden now has to sweep in the Midwest to have any chance at re-election.
With Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada now outside the margin of error leads for the 45th president, he stands just one electoral vote from 270 that could come from states like Maine at-large, or the 2nd Nebraska Congressional District.
President Trump may not win Minnesota, Virginia, New Mexico, New Jersey, or New York – but he does not have to.
Despite the limitations of unprecedented political persecution against him, campaigning in these places reinforces that he is the right man at this moment in history to be a president for all Americans.
His gumption might just turn a clear electoral college and popular vote victory into something closer to landslide territory. ##