South Bronx event changes the game

Yesterday President Donald J. Trump did something no previous President (sitting or former) had ever done before. He came to New York City’s South Bronx – “coming to the ‘hood,’” as one local put it. And the South Bronx welcomed him warmly. But Donald Trump accomplished more than to win over the residents of one Democrat-run city (and that the country’s largest). Many neighborhoods, in many American cities, are the South Bronx today. Trump could indeed “flip” New York State, with the level of support he demonstrated yesterday. But even if he does not, he will likely “flip back” three of the five States (Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona) where fraud likely decided the Election of 2020. And when he returns to the White House, he will have a mandate to reverse decades of decline in our nation’s cities, or at least make a good start on that.

Leading up to the South Bronx rally

Yesterday CNAV noted that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) foolishly predicted that the South Bronx event would be a flop. On the day before the rally, she suggested that Trump was desperately seeking money to replenish a depleted war chest. She also boasted that Judge Juan Merchan, now trying the case of New York v. Trump (now in holiday recess), had slapped “the legal equivalent of an electronic ankle monitor” on him.

She went on to say that she expected the people in the South Bronx to repudiate him. Maybe she expected a small or medium-sized crowd to greet him with the legendary Bronx Cheer, i.e., a raspberry.

On the morning of the rally, rain was falling in Crotona Park, where the rally eventually took place. Another user took video of the rain, and predicted the park would be “a muddy mess.” In a quote-post, Rep. “AOC” actually said, “God is good” and picted a praying-hands emoji.

Except that the weather cleared up, even faster than it did for General George S. Patton as he was famously racing to Bastogne to lift the siege of the 101^st Airborne.

Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain these immoderate rains with which we have had to contend. Grant us fair weather for Battle. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory, and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies and establish Thy justice among men and nations. Amen. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. USA, commanding U.S. 3rd Army

Similarly, God granted Donald J. Trump fair weather to address a crowd he must have known would be extremely skeptical. Or they would have been – had not the infamous Atlanta Mug Shot primed them to receive him as a friend.

God had granted him those two favors; the opportunity was his to use – or waste.

Resounding success

Crowds began to arrive quickly. Organizers had estimated that Crotona Park might hold 3500 people. The New York Post estimated, this morning, that 8,000 to 10,000 people attended. This represents the people who were able to get in! Dinesh D’Souza shared this picture of the overflow, which he said was larger than any crowd Joe Biden could attract.

Tim Pool’s Timcast shared video of the long line of people waiting to get in:

So did influencer Savannah Hernandez:

The total crowd size, including overflow, might have been as high as 25,000.

It was also an enthusiastic, even vociferous, crowd.

Here are samples of what those people enjoyed:

Trump made a speech, actually speaking to the tragic pathos that affects New York City today. Clearly the crowd appreciated it, because he showed that he cared.

Former New York State Senator Rubén Díaz, once a Democrat, now Republican, rounded on AOC, calling her a false prophet.

I want to tell AOC [crowd cries Boo] This morning she intended to become a prophet and she said, “Even God doesn’t want Trump in the Bronx because it’s going to rain.” Madam prophet AOC, you have become a false prophet. [Loud cheers] Look at what a beautiful day. [More loud cheers] That means not only you guys [the crowd] want Trump in the Bronx, because if we are going to measure it up [by] the weather, then I would say humbly, that even God want [Trump] in the Bronx. [Even louder cheers]

The crowd consisted almost entirely of locals, as CNN had to admit.

Attendees scornfully told AOC to “stay out of the Bronx.” This attendee pointedly said AOC has “done nothing for the Bronx.”

One could say that also of New York City Mayor Eric Adams – and of “Resident” Biden. Everyone in the crowd seemed to know that. One attendee praised Trump for having the goodness to come to “the ‘hood,” something no other President has done.

Detractors embarrass only themselves

Apparently some far-left groups had planned to come to Crotona Park and disrupt the rally.

But no one has produced any evidence that these groups even came close to succeeding. But apparently that didn’t stop Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) from insulting the entire South Bronx neighborhood!

Well, I’ll tell you what won’t make a difference at all and that is for Donald Trump to be the ringleader of a – and invite all of his clowns to a place like the Bronx. New York will never, ever support Donald Trump for president.

Clowns? Invite? Again: the attendees were locals. Donald Trump did not bus or fly people into the South Bronx. But Kathy Hochul has demonstrated such condescending and patronizing ignorance before.

And if this attendee’s attitude is typical, the denizens of the South Bronx know Biden better than he might like:

I’m voting for Daddy, not Biden. Joe Biden, stop taking a shower with children. Stop smelling little girls hair. We know what you did with your daughter, Ashley Biden. Don’t do that. That’s wrong. You got to be a good man like Daddy is. Big Daddy Trump, President Big Daddy Trump. I’m the only one with this. Nobody has this. I had this since 2016, and I love him, and I will vote all out for Daddy. Thank you.

“This” is a New York State license plate spelling out DONALD TRUMP.

Today the South Bronx; in November the country

Donald Trump succeeded in the South Bronx by pointing out the policy failures of the Biden, Hochul, and Adams administrations. But he also succeeded by showing up – a larger-than-life figure becoming more than a face on a television screen. These local residents understood – and the Democrats have only themselves to blame. Against a doddering old pre-stroke (or Alzheimer-type) shuffler, a governor who thinks certain young people never heard the word computer spoken, and a mayor who displaced an obvious communist only to govern like a subtle one – against opponents like these, of course Donald Trump was going to shine!

Not only that, but the Democrats made two mistakes. In Atlanta, they took a mug shot of Trump, as if he were a common garden-variety thief – or murderer. Of course everyone knows that Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, and “Tish” James let real thieves and murderers go free. And in New York City, Judge Merchan forced Trump to stay close. But the problem with confining your worst enemy to your home territory is that he can then contest it directly. As he is now doing.

Furthermore, every American city under Democratic control has at least one South Bronx in it. New York has problems, but other cities have similar problems. Democrats had four years to solve them, and have only made them worse.

That is why Donald Trump is going to regain the Presidency, no matter whom he faces in the general election.