Kamala Harris hit the panic button after Donald Trump scheduled a campaign rally in the last place Democrats ever expected
A handful of Congressional races in New York could determine the balance of power in the U.S. House next year.
Joe Biden won New York with nearly 61% of the vote in 2020.
That’s why Kamala Harris hit the panic button after Donald Trump scheduled a campaign rally in the last place Democrats ever expected.
New York City is hostile turf to Trump now
Even though former President Donald Trump lives in Florida, New York City is near and dear to his heart.
Trump was born and raised in New York City and built his real estate empire in the Big Apple.
“I love New York, I miss New York,” Trump previously told reporters.
But New York City is one of the most Democrat areas in the country.
It’s the reason why Democrats took Trump to trial there.
In 2020, President Joe Biden won New York City with 76% of the vote compared to Trump’s 23%.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton carried New York City by 79% compared to Trump’s 18%.
Even though the city is heavily Democrat, there are a few red areas in New York.
Polls show Vice President Kamala Harris is currently underperforming in New York compared to Biden in every Congressional District.
🚨🚨 Kamala Harris is underperforming Joe Biden in 2020 in every district in NY, NY Republicans are working to win in 2024! pic.twitter.com/ZrWoYoDrrh
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) October 8, 2024
“The peril for Democrats in New York emerged clearly in recent polling by Siena College, which found that Harris got a 5-point boost after replacing Biden atop the ticket but hadn’t reached his 22-point winning margin of four years earlier,” Semafor reported. “Harris will have no trouble winning New York’s 28 electoral votes next month, but Democrats are hoping for big coattails to pull their House candidates to victory in swing races.”
New York has roughly seven competitive House races.
And in a bad sign for Kamala, Trump just made good on a promise he made in February to hold a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
“[I] think I’ll do one maybe at Madison Square Garden,” Trump told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo in February. “New York has changed a lot in the last two years. People that would have never voted for me because I’m a Republican, but I think they’re going to vote for me.”
Trump doubled down on his pledge in April when he said “We’re going to be doing a rally at Madison Square Garden.”
Donald Trump returns to the Big Apple
And according to the New York Post, Trump is holding a massive rally at Madison Square Garden on October 27, a mere nine days before the election.
This won’t be Trump’s first rally in New York this campaign.
16,000 people turned out to watch him speak last month at the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island.
And he held a rally at the Bronx over the summer that drew a crowd of more than 10,000 people in the Democrat stronghold.
Donald Trump is changing the political landscape in America.
Democrats have been losing the support of black voters to him.
And they could end up losing a chance to win competitive House races in New York.
