[WILDWOOD, N.J.] Former President Donald J. Trump returned to South Jersey as he continues to bring the Garden State into play. He held a rally Saturday evening for 100,000 Trump supporters who, in addition to the more than 20,000 spread out inside the fences, also filled Wildwood Beach’s boardwalk, beach and bars and restaurants.
Trump rally draws between 80,000 and 100,000 people on the beach in Wildwood, New Jersey; Could be the “biggest” in “state history.”
“Even on TV, they said [it] “It could be the biggest political rally they’ve ever seen,” the former president said.
“We’re going to win New Jersey,” he said.
“If we win New Jersey, we win the whole thing,” he said. “I think we’ll actually win some others.”
The former president said his campaign is expanding the map beyond the Garden State to Virginia and Minnesota, the latter of which was last won by a Republican in 1952.
Trump said if President Joseph R. Biden Jr. wins the election, the middle class loses and New Jersey loses.
“If Trump wins the middle class, lower-income people will truly win again — and you will all achieve the American dream,” Trump said.
There is reason for optimism in the Trump camp; Emerson College carried out A March 26-29 poll that showed Biden leading Trump 46 percent to 39 percent and 15 percent undecided.
It’s an elderly saying that undecided voters will choose the challenger, which would put Trump in the lead over his successor.
The last Republican to win New Jersey was Vice President George HW Bush in 1988. Then Bush defeated Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis 57 percent to 43 percent. In 1992, Arkansas Gov. William J. Clinton beat Bush 56 percent to 40 percent, and in the 2020 campaign, when Biden defeated Trump 57 percent to 41 percent, that margin of about 15 points remained remarkably stable by the standard Democratic carrier .
Trump’s Wildwood 2020 took place in a different time and place
The rally was Trump’s first rally in New Jersey since his January 28, 2020 rally here at the Wildwood Convention Center.
It’s strange to look back at photos of that first Wildwood rally where no one was wearing masks. Three days later, the president banned Chinese travelers from entering the United States.
Throughout Trump’s term, the mainstream media has consistently offered negative criticism, but Trump’s actual economic record has been outstandingand it wasn’t just because unemployment was below 4 percent.
In Trump’s first three years in office, the economy grew by 500,000 fresh manufacturing jobs, average income rose 2.3 percent, regulations came to a near halt, and poverty decreased, causing food stamp participation to fall 15 percent.
At the time, the president was the master of a growing economy, with an approval rating of 49 percent, the highest ratings of his presidency. He maintained this approval until the second half of May 2020, when it fell by 10 points to 30 percent.
In the week before the 2020 election, Trump’s approval rating rose to 46 percent.
As of May 5, Trump has a 46 percent to 44 percent lead over President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the Real Clear Politics polling average.
When the RCP challenges the Electoral College, Trump and Biden are virtually tied: Trump gets 219 electoral votes and Biden 215, leaving 104 electoral votes in states where there is no election.
However, if RCP forces the election on the likely winner, Trump will have a 312-226 lead in the Electoral College.
Every Trump rally features MAGA luminaries such as New York Giants Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor, former New Jersey congressional candidate and Live From America host Mike Crispi, and Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), the just moments later the party switched to voting against Trump’s first impeachment.
Another guest could be significant in the upcoming election, as Republican North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum was one of the former president’s opening acts – and a guest on the plane, Trump Force One.
Burgum seemed to enjoy auditioning for the vice presidential candidate’s established role as attack dog on the ticket.
The governor told the crowd that Biden’s policies toward Israel were a disgrace.
In the past, US policy was never to negotiate with terrorists, but not with Biden. “Now he’s negotiating for the terrorists.”
The governor said Biden was undermining Israel to win support from the Hamas wing of the Democratic Party.
As the sun set and the wind picked up, Trump said he was amazed at how the crowd hung around.
It could be the tens of thousands who stick around to see the real win of the Trump rally when Trump concludes his speech and moves on to Sam and Dave’s “Hold On, I’m Coming.”
The former president always lingers on stage, waving and clapping to the cheers of the crowd – especially when he clenches his two fists and performs his modified twist.
It was all worth it.
