2024 Election, Trump

The Best Part of Trump’s New York Rally

I watched the man in the yellow hat and the rest of the event.

John Dean
Dean’s List
Published in
5 min readSep 19, 2024

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Screenshot of video of Trump September 18, 2024 rally in Uniondale, New York via YouTube.

In recent days, in between reading about the second assassination attempt targeting Trump and exploding pagers in Lebanon, I kept hearing that Donald Trump’s journey off the rails was accelerating. He announced involvement in a cryptocurrency exchange that immediately raised the question of what would happen if he won in November. Trump made dozens of gaffes and misstatements at an event in Flint, Michigan, where he was described as so bad and so repetitive that attendees started leaving in droves before he finished his speech. The news was confusing. If Trump is “losing it,” why is the presidential race so close?

Despite the sight of Trump disgusting me, I decided to watch his rally held on September 18 on Long Island. I wondered why Trump would hold an event in a state he is guaranteed to lose in November. And while Long Island is a Republican stronghold in a blue state, would Trump be able to draw a crowd? And would attendees be enthusiastic about a candidate who describes their state as “a mess.”

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John Dean
Dean’s List

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