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Trump makes blue-state detour with Coachella rally

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Trump made several stops in Democratic states in the last weeks of the 2024 election. The former president is avoiding the monthslong trudge through swing states that Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris believe to decide the race, from Coachella Valley on Saturday to Madison Square Garden later this month.

Republicans have no illusions about winning the deep blue states he is visiting. Trump, who has refused to accept his 2020 loss and spread lies about widespread voting fraud, claimed this week that he has more support than Harris in California, a state he lost by 29 percentage points four years ago.

“I would win by a landslide if California held an honest election.” The former president criticized mail-in voting on “The John Kobylt Show,” a talk radio program in Southern California. “I do,” he added. Trump’s allies say the blue-state stops are more than improvisations to satisfy the Republican nominee.

Democrats control California and New York, but their size means they have many Republican voters and fundraisers, offering fundraising opportunities and boosting down-ballot candidates, especially in tight House elections

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Trump told Kobylt, “We have a lot of support in California, and I felt I owed it to them,” he said, referring to the Coachella Valley gathering site as “a great piece of land.”

The gatherings also offer Trump opportunities to frame the issues emanating from Democratic leadership as those facing the states he is visiting.

Trump makes blue-state detour with Coachella rally

On Thursday, Trump did the same thing in Detroit that he had done throughout his campaign up to this point: warn his voters that if Harris prevails, “our entire country will end up being like Detroit.”

Unlike the state’s largest city, Trump can utter similar remarks in blue states without risking electoral blowback; particularly in California where Harris served as a US senator and attorney general.

According to a statement from Trump’s communications director Steven Cheung, “President Trump’s trip to Coachella will highlight Harris’ failing record and show that he has the right solutions to save every state and every American.”

Trump’s team also anticipates massive, noisy crowds and attract outsized media attention, which would benefit politics map-wide.

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In this nationalized media environment, the location of his demonstrations becomes less important. Whatever he does, his messaging is reaching all the major media markets. And the more attention it will get, the larger the gathering, right? Madison Square Garden is what I mean. A senior Trump adviser told CNN, you guys have to cover it.

Trump advisers argue that the voters his campaign is targeting in the final weeks of the race are people who rarely pay attention to politics; hence, stumping like he did last Friday in Aurora, Colorado, where he blasted Harris on immigration issues offers content with far higher web reach than any conventional campaign event in a swing state would.

This is the reason why the Trump campaign has booked sessions between the former president and popular podcasters and YouTube streamers. Harris’s staff mainly concerns itself with certain groups of voters, focusing on appearing on podcasts and other interview platforms during the same approach taken over the last few weeks.

“We are doing podcasts for a purpose. We are doing Adin Ross and MMA for a specific purpose,” said one senior Trump aide.

Coachella rally

Most local leaders didn’t enjoy what Donald Trump had prepared to say Saturday at the Calhoun Ranch in the Coachella Valley.

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Trump makes blue-state detour with Coachella rally

“Trump’s attacks on immigrants, women, the LGBTQ community and the most vulnerable among us are inconsistent with the values ​​of our community,” Coachella Mayor Steven Hernandez said on social media before Trump arrived in town.

“He has expressed time and time again that he doesn’t like the kinds of things that make Coachella, well, Coachella,” Hernandez said. We also know that he was not invited by those in this valley. He doesn’t like our music.

Still, that former president claims the massive protests in blue states like Sunday’s one he is holding reveal how popular he is across America.

They also arm Trump to dispute the election results should Harris win. “Too big to rig,” one of the ex-president’s favorite strategies, is the belief he must win so decisively that everyone in his camp will know it and no one will come closer to raising a murmur.

“He thinks that crowd is suggesting and will suggest, there’s no way he’s going to win,” one Trump acolyte said.

In a sense, he believes that this collective resistance is a kind of analysis of the plays. He hopes to do well in November, with as much on his mind.

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Chicago, New York plans

He departs tomorrow to deliver a swing in another blue state on Tuesday, headlining an event hosted by Bloomberg News and the Economic Club of Chicago.

And to court those non-White men who, as of tradition, have voted for Democrats, he is going to New York where he recently held rallies in the Bronx and Long Island.

Originally set to coincide with Trump’s sentencing in his New York hush money trial in Manhattan, until the judge reviewing the case finally put the date back to following the election. Long Island was the September destination.

Meanwhile, Madison Square Garden on October 27 will provide Trump with a legendary theater in his hometown, somewhat less than a week from Election Day.

Trump makes blue-state detour with Coachella rally

Trump long hinted at a Madison Square Garden gathering. Even after the contract was finalized, sources close to the former president were reluctant to publicize the event, citing the outside pressure the venue could face—especially from influential New Yorkers—to call off.

Trump lost the Empire State by more than 20 points in both 2016 and 2020, but he insisted in September at his Long Island event; in November he has a shot of reclaiming the state.

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“Trump has been fixated on this idea that his supporters in states not deemed as vital to the 2024 election deserve to have an opportunity to see him and attend a rally,” a person close to Trump said. “In some cases, those events can be an even bigger draw since it’s the only chance a lot of people have to go to a rally.”

‘A complete waste of his time’

As he campaigns in the blue states he’s visiting, Trump exudes confidence. Though there is little evidence for it, he told a cheering crowd in Aurora Friday that he is “very close” in the reliably Democratic state.

But the biggest strategic purposes of those visits are to hammer Democrats on topics Trump’s campaign believes are most important: border security and crime.

On Friday, Trump attacked Democratic governor Jared Polis of Colorado, who has been supporting erroneous and sensationalized allegations on Venezuelan gang members seizing control of the state.

“This man sees nothing as you do. He claimed he does not see people breaking into buildings carrying AK-47s, military style weaponry, occasionally better than our own troops.

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Should Trump win in November, he announced he would set up a federal program to speed up the deportation of illegal gang members. Also recommending the death penalty for “any migrant that kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer,” he

Democrat Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Trump was lying about migrant crime in Colorado; but, from a political standpoint, he was very “happy” to see the former president in the state.

“There’s not going to be any way he wins Colorado,” Bennet remarked. From a political standpoint, then, I believe this to be a total waste of his time.

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