MSNBC on Trump’s Rally in the Bronx: ‘A Lot of the People ... Were First-Time Voters’

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UNKNOWN FEMALE 1: “It’s too much crime. Everything is going downhill. The economy is going bad. The food is expensive. It’s like, affordable housing is too — not for everybody. It’s just horrible.”
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UNKNOWN MALE 1: “I want food to go cheaper. The gas, I want gas cheaper. When I came and he was a president, the gas was a lot cheaper than it is right now.”
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VEGA: “Now we’re becoming, The Bronx, second-class citizens. We have this influx of migrants that are coming in and they’re getting everything, and everyone in The Bronx, and the city of New York, is — is forgotten.”
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BURNS: “And Jose, a lot of the people I talked to were first-time voters. Some had never been to a Trump event before, some had voted for Obama twice and voted for Biden and are now saying they are going to vote for former President Trump in November. Look, a lot is going to happen over the next six months. But this is something I’ve been hearing consistently from voters, and that’s why you’re seeing some of the more aggressive push from the Biden campaign to try to shore up their — their base to try to rally those voters.”

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