International Courant
It has been over three many years since a Republican carried New Jersey in a presidential election.
One has to return to then-Vice President George H.W. Bush, who carried the state within the 1988 election on his approach to profitable the White Home. Since then, Democrats have gained the state eight straight occasions in presidential elections.
Nevertheless, former President Trump thinks he can clear the excessive hurdles he faces within the reliably blue state.
“We’re going to attempt to win the state of New Jersey. I need the individuals to know that I adore it,” Trump predicted in a Friday morning native radio interview on New Jersey 105.1 within the Backyard State. “, it’s not simply going to be like, gee, perhaps we are able to get shut. We’re going to win it.”
WHERE THE BIDEN-TRUMP REMATCH STANDS SIX MONTHS UNTIL ELECTION DAY
Former President Trump predicts that he can flip blue state New Jersey crimson. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee is seen as he boards his airplane after talking at a marketing campaign rally in Freeland, Michigan, on Might 1, 2024. (AP Picture/Paul Sancya)
Trump added that New Jersey “is meant to be a Democrat state. I feel it should flip to Republican.”
The previous president spoke on the eve of returning to the Backyard State.
“We now have an amazing rally and hope you are all going to be there. It is in Wildwood, New Jersey. It will be a giant crowd,” the previous president touted on Friday.
TRUMP TRIES TO CLOSE HIS FUNDRAISING GAP WITH BIDEN
Wildwood, on the southern tip of the Jersey Shore, is a part of the Backyard State’s Cape Might County, a closely Republican county in a longtime blue state.
Trump held a rally in Wildwood in January 2020. Nevertheless, Trump ended up dropping New Jersey by 16 factors to President Biden.
4 years earlier, he misplaced the state to 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton by 14 factors.
Then-President Trump attends the “Maintain America Nice Rally” on the Wildwood Conference Heart on Jan. 28, 2020 in Wildwood, New Jersey. (Picture by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Company through Getty Pictures)
For Trump, the weekend rally is a brief distance from New York Metropolis, the place he’s spending his weekdays in courtroom, making historical past as the primary former or present president to face trial in a prison case.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Democrats don’t look like taking Trump’s prediction very critically.
Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, a Biden surrogate, advised reporters on Friday that “Jersey will not be going to be a welcoming place for Trump.”
Moreover, Biden marketing campaign communications director Michael Tyler famous that “Trump’s group is speaking about New Jersey. They’re speaking about holding concert events in Madison Sq. Backyard to prove voters in states like New York. I feel right here on planet earth within the Biden marketing campaign, we’ll stay laser targeted on profitable 270 electoral votes.”
Get the newest updates from the 2024 marketing campaign path, unique interviews and extra at our Fox Information Digital election hub.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter primarily based in New Hampshire.
