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Donald Trump again pledged in a speech in Manhattan today to break
with three decades of electoral history by winning New York State in
November—and claimed the state has become a wasteland that only his
presidency can save.
Accepting the nomination and ballot line of the New York State
Conservative Party at its convention at the Marriott Marquis in Times
Square, the Queens-born billionaire maintained that he would be the
first Republican nominee to carry the Empire State since President
Ronald Reagan’s re-election run in 1984. Even with current polls putting Hillary Clinton some 20 points ahead, and even though she pulled more than twice as many votes in New York’s Democratic primary than Trump drew in the GOP one, he insisted he would ultimately win New Yorkers over with his agenda and his accent.
“I think we’re going to win New York. I think we’re going to do great
in New York,” Trump said, mocking the Chicago-born,
Westchester-residing Clinton’s bona fides. “Hillary—she’s not a New
Yorker.”
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Source: Observer (via The Empire Report)
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