President Trump held a campaign rally on Tuesday night in Wildwood, New Jersey, an event that should have national Democrats shaking in fear. New Jersey is one of the deepest blue states in the union and it continues to veer ever-further left. It’s a state where Democrats have enjoyed winning elections easily and handily, aside from a handful of Republican strongholds scattered throughout the state. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the state by 14 points over Donald Trump, in her losing bid to win the White House.
But on Tuesday night things felt different.
The Trump rally received some 175,000 ticket requests, and people lined up outside the Wildwood Convention Center two full days before the event. The crowd that managed to get inside the venue was raucous in their approval and enthusiasm for the president and his policies. This happened not somewhere deep in Trump country, but bluer than blue New Jersey.
When it comes down to who Americans will cast their vote for in a presidential election, they choose the candidate who they believe will ensure that they are better off in four years than they are today. With a roaring economy, the killing of terrorists like ISIS leader Baghdadi and Iranian commander Soleimani, Americans see quite clearly that President Trump has the country’s best interest at heart and will continue to advocate for and implement policies that lift all Americans up and keep them safe. And New Jersey voters know that.
When a dark blue state like New Jersey reacts to the arrival of a staunchly conservative Republican president with unbridled joy and fanfare, it tells you a lot. It tells you that at the end of the day, Americans, regardless of their ideological allegiances, will elect a man who although imperfect, will help them lead better, more successful lives. That is what we saw on Tuesday night, and that is why Democrats are focusing heavily on impeachment: they need something to take American minds off of Trump’s successes and instead turn their attention to alleged sinister activities.
With New Jersey being so liberal it is difficult to see a way that President Trump will win its electoral votes in 2020. But the turnout at the rally shows you how people feel about the president on the national level. If New Jersey is giving Trump massive amounts of support, then think of the support he is getting in purple swing states like Ohio and Wisconsin.
Trump’s support has Democrats on edge. It is why they are frantically trying to figure out which candidate will give them a fighting chance to beat him one-on-one in a national election. Right now, it doesn’t look like they have a candidate that can do that. Democrats are running scared in fear of their political lives, and for good reason.
Christie has told trump NJ is not in play. Donald Trump has a strong digital presence and facebook allows false ads, that is what Democrats should be afraid of. They need to up their game. 100,00,000 eligible voters did not vote in 2016. Donald Trump won the election because of 70,000 votes divided over three states.
Let me see if I understand.
Even the Bluest of states have large numbers of Trump supporters.
Less than 2% of New Jerseys population wanted to attend.
Trump supporters like to get fired up and attend rallys.
Everyone agrees Trump can never win New Jersey.
Since in NJ 175,000 people wanted to attend that shows Nationally how people feel about him.
A large turnout at a rally in NJ shows he must have strong support in Ohio and Wisconsin.
You might want to spend more time learning Gemara, it will teach you how to think logically and use deductive reasoning that actually makes sense.
Hashem runs the entire world….
Not Trump, Netanyahu and Rebbes…. Go straight to Hashem for help. These are all just Hashems Physical middlemen agents in this temporary world but YOU don’t need that and should you yourself go directly to your loving father and king of kings Hashem.
May we all come to realize this ASAP it will be a major zchus in the bringing of Mashiach coming right away and and end to all the tzaros in klal Yisroel
Maybe. But if you look at a 2016 election map of NJ, most of it is red with a strip of blue running through it. That small strip is probably heavily populated which is why the state averages out to blue. Anyway it’s in the hands of Hashem.
Trumps obviously going to win by a landslide beh.
(like who would want communism and socialism anyways Uch!)
Terrified is a strong word.
Whether or not the content is true or not, using a word like dissapointed would be more appropriate.
Stop fanning the divisive rhetoric.
The writer makes a debatable point, as others have commented, but he misses a far more important and useful indicator that Trump may be on the way to a historic reelection: Data gathered at Trump rallies across a number of swing states shows that significant percentages of attendees are either independents, democrats or people who have sat out one or more of the most recent presidential elections. If this data is accurate, it means that Trump is not only doing well with the crucial independent vote, but even more importantly, bringing a whole new segment of voters into the mix. People who did not vote in recent presidential elections probably did so out of disillusionment, feeling that their votes don’t make any difference. Trump has been an extremely consequential president: not only has he racked up an impressive record of accomplishments (especially in the economic sphere), but he has made sea changes previously thought impossilbe in vital areas: courts, regulation, military, foreign affairs, religious freedom, etc. People not only want to vote for someone who will bring them peace and prosperity; they also want to see a reversal of the downward spiral in our politics, our society and our standing in the world, and not just a “managed decline” which had become the status quo with career politicians. In Trump, I believe they see someone who is doing that and, given the chance of a second term, will continue to do that and accomplish even more positive change. It will mean their vote means something and that can bring a lot of people off the sidelines.