Trump's been holding rallies in Staten Island this presidential election cycle and previous ones. Trump relationship with Staten Island. Trump Hailed as Hometown Hero in Staten Island excerpt: "Trump has been a national celebrity for decades and his gold-plated name has propelled him to victory in far-flung states from Georgia to Michigan. But as the primary comes to Trump’s home state on New York on April 19, there are few places where he is as big a force. In Staten Island, New York City’s most isolated borough, where the Trump family’s roots run deep, his support is as strong as anywhere in the country. The locals grew up in his father’s buildings, saw him on television, commuted to Manhattan to work in his towers. Trump conjures up the combativeness, the straight-talking bluntness and success prized among New Yorkers, particularly in the heavily Republican borough."
Article from November 2020. Staten Island Turns Out En Masse to Support Trump Again excerpt: "Just as it did in 2016, Staten Island overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump, while the rest of the city voted Democratic. The president has won 62% of all votes that have been counted so far, a tally that does not yet include absentee ballots, which might favor Joe Biden. Four years ago, Trump beat Hillary Clinton 57 to 41% here. The owner of a hot dog stand says she knows why."
FiveThirtyEight is showing Harris with a 14 point lead over Trump in the state of New York. New York : President: general election : 2024 Polls
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/09/trump-putin-covid-testing-equipment-kremlin excerpt: "The Kremlin on Wednesday confirmed a report that former President Trump sent Russian President Vladimir Putin COVID-19 testing equipment during the height of the pandemic. Why it matters: The Trump campaign categorically denied new revelations in journalist Bob Woodward's book "War," which renewed scrutiny of the relationship between Putin and the Republican presidential nominee."
Trump refuses offer to debate Harris a second time at Fox or CNN. Trump refuses US presidential debate 'rematch' with Harris
'I don't want to be nice': Trump ramps up personal attacks on Harris at Pennsylvania rally excerpt: “Americans are starting to have real questions about Donald Trump’s capacity. He is cocooned in his safe spaces in right wing media, he backed out of 60 Minutes, and he refuses to stand before the American people in another debate,” Moussa said. “He should say whether it’s because he’s scared or because he just can’t hack it.”
Trump threatens to prosecute people for supposedly voting illegally for Democrats, a claim he has never substantiated. https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/g-s1...t-harris-biden-mentally-impaired-police-rough excerpt: “We have to have a landslide because they cheat so damn much,” he later said, and then added, “If we win, when we win, we’re going to prosecute people that cheat on this election. And if we can, we’ll go back to the last one, too, if we’re allowed.”
'I don't want to be nice': Trump ramps up personal attacks on Harris at Pennsylvania rally excerpt: "Trump told the crowd that he has booked Madison Square Garden for a rally in New York City and that he’s “making a play” to win the blue-leaning states of New Jersey, Virginia, New Mexico and Minnesota. He lost those five states in 2016 and 2020, and there’s scant indication that he could win them this year."
Trump needs to stop listening to Rasmussen polls. But he won't. Before Biden dropped out of the race, some of the polls were showing Trump gaining some ground on Biden in the blue states, but Trump was still far behind. He's harking back to the pre-Harris era.
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/g-s1...t-harris-biden-mentally-impaired-police-rough excerpt: “We have to have a landslide because they cheat so damn much,” he later said, and then added, “If we win, when we win, we’re going to prosecute people that cheat on this election. And if we can, we’ll go back to the last one, too, if we’re allowed.”
Bringing people to justice for voting illegally has already been done and it's ongoing. Many of the ones being caught are Republicans who voted twice for Trump in 2016 and 2020, including a businessman from NV who used his dead wife's ballot to vote twice for Trump.
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/g-s1...t-harris-biden-mentally-impaired-police-rough excerpt: “Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way,” he told the crowd. “She was born that way. And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country,” he said, in reference to undocumented immigrants entering the country.
'I don't want to be nice': Trump ramps up personal attacks on Harris at Pennsylvania rally excerpt: “I don’t want to be nice. Somebody said, ‘You should be nice sir, women won’t like it,’” Trump said, adding: “The women want safety.” He then described an apocalyptic America if he loses. “Kamala will deliver a 1929-style depression,” Trump said, resurrecting a claim he made about Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election that didn’t materialize. He promised “the four greatest years in the history of our country” if he wins in November.
Trump says he will end crime with one hour of police being really rough on people. Trump has also said he would end Putin's war in Ukraine within 24 hours. https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/g-s1...t-harris-biden-mentally-impaired-police-rough excerpt: Trump falsely claimed that police in California, Harris’ home state, do not charge people for shoplifting merchandise valued under $950. Trump then said police should be allowed to be “rough” on criminals to send a message. “One rough hour, and I mean real rough, the word will get out, and it will end immediately. End immediately. You know? It’ll end immediately,” he repeated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/us/voter-fraud-nevada.html excerpt: "Revisiting our earlier coverage, we learned in May about Pennsylvania's Bruce Bartman, who cast an absentee ballot in support of Donald Trump for his mother — who died in 2008. Bartman pleaded guilty to unlawful voting, conceded he "listened to too much propaganda," and was sentenced to five years' probation. About a month later, Edward Snodgrass, a local Republican official in Ohio, admitted to forging his dead father's signature on an absentee ballot and then voting again as himself. NBC News noted at the time that Snodgrass struck a deal with prosecutors and was sentenced to three days in jail and a $500 fine. In August, we learned of a Pennsylvania man named Robert Richard Lynn, who used a typewriter to complete an absentee ballot application on behalf of his deceased mother. After getting caught, he faced up to two years behind bars. Lynn instead received a sentence of six months' probation."
Trump and the GOP have gone quiet about Republicans being caught voting illegally. The fact that they are being caught proves that the voting security system is effective and that new strict voter legislation that that will likely disenfranchise legal voters is not justified. Article from 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/us/voter-fraud-nevada.html excerpt: The Nevada Republican Party had cited Mr. Hartle’s story as evidence of voting irregularities on Twitter last year, saying that Mr. Hartle “was surprised to find that his late wife Rosemarie, a Republican, cast a ballot in this years election despite having passed away” in 2017. Since the announcement of the charges against Mr. Hartle, however, the party has not corrected the record, said Callum Ingram, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno. “The state Republican Party has been pretty quiet certainly on this case since the narrative got flipped on its head,” Dr. Ingram said in an interview on Saturday.