Trump is making big headways in the Empire State.
Local New York evening news report from ABC7’s Jim Dolan covered the Thursday rally in South Bronx, New York.
Dolan first featured the comments of local Bronx residents who showed up to protest Trump, the first of which said of Trump, “First of all, he’s a big fat bigot and he just doesn’t have any love in his heart for anyone, anyone of color, anyone who’s in the LGBTQ plus community.” A second protestor said of Trump “He’s a crook, a liar, and a cheat. And he tries to make money off people. And that’s what he’s doing right now.”
Dolan then pivoted to the home states of the pro-Trump rallygoers in attendance, with the aid of an unnamed professor who said, “They’re all from out of state. Go out there. Look at all them. Call that a pocket check out of where they came from. Tennessee. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas.”
Dolan did find one pro-Trump rally-goer but he was not from The Bronx, he was from Queens.
“Donald Trump can now say he held a rally in the South Bronx, home to immigrants and minority communities, and that it was well attended,” Dolan wrapped his report. “It’s just not clear that the people who attended were from the Bronx. The campaign controlled who got in, and the campaign, of course, picked only supporters.”
