Trump Visits Bodega of Worker Charged by Alvin Bragg
Donald Trump is stuck in New York for most of the next six to eight weeks while his hush-money trial takes place.
Trump has decided that on court days, he will stick to local campaigning rather than flying all over the country every night.
That campaigning started this week with Trump visiting the bodega where a clerk at the bodega stabbed a man who had come across the counter after his girlfriend was refused service.
Local Campaigning
I am sure everyone reading this remembers the bodega case.
A young woman and her child went into the bodega but did not have enough money to pay for the items, so the clerk took them back.
Not long after that, the woman’s boyfriend returned, going behind the counter to beat the man, who eventually grabbed a knife and repeatedly stabbed the attacker, who eventually died.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg wanted to charge the man with murder, but the charges were eventually dropped.
This made the perfect backdrop for Trump to use as a campaign stop.
Trump visited with everyone inside the bodega and then attacked Bragg, stating, "It makes me campaign locally, and that's okay. We're doing better now than we've ever done, so I think it's having a reverse effect.
"We're going to come in – Number one, you have to stop crime and we're going to let the police do their job. They have to be given back their authority. They have to be able to do their job. And we're going to come into New York. We're making a big play for New York, other cities, too. But this city, I love this city."
In recent history, New York has voted red in exactly two elections: 1980 and 1984, the Ronald Reagan years.
I would not be as bold as Trump’s surrogates to predict a Trump win, but the crowd there absolutely loved him. They chanted, "Trump, Trump, Trump," "Four more years," and "We love Trump,” and they broke out in an impromptu rendition of the National Anthem.
And best of all for Trump, it was all covered by the national media, giving him more free press.
