‘A Very Concerted Effort to Win Over Non-White Voters’: Kight on Trump’s Bronx Rally

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
BAIER: “Stef, the former president is right, that if he won New York, it would be the ballgame. A lot of people are saying he probably is not going to win New York, but he is expanding the map in other places. And clearly, that rally last night in the south Bronx is evidence of that.”
KIGHT: “Exactly. Of course, the chances of the former president winning New York are very slim. It is still an incredibly blue state. But the fact that he did go to The Bronx goes to show just how seriously he and his campaign are trying to court a new block of voters. They have made a very concerted effort to win over non-white voters, speaking directly to black voters and Hispanic voters of course the area of The Bronx he visited is a largely Hispanic neighborhood and a very multi-racial crowd showed up there, especially for a Trump rally. It really does show us that he is taking that seriously, that they’re going to lean into that. They are trying to expand the kind of voters that are willing to come out and vote for the former president, even if New York as a state is not really on the table. We are seeing him win over more and more voters that in the past would be unlikely Republican voters.”