Donald Trump said he has a “good chance of winning New York” and claimed that he may be “doing a rally at Madison Square Garden” before entering the courthouse for his criminal trial in Manhattan Thursday.
Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York as part of a hush money scheme to bury stories that he feared could hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. He is the first former president to ever stand trial on criminal charges.
“Tremendous polls came out over the last 24 hours where we’re up in all of the swing states and up nationally. But one came out where we’re down very little in New York,” Trump said to reporters before entering the courtroom. “New York, traditionally, isn’t won by Republicans anymore. It used to be 50 years ago, but not anymore. And I think we have a good chance of winning New York.”
“We’re going to give it a big play,” the former president continued. “We’re going to the South Bronx to do a rally. We’re going to be doing a rally at Madison Square Garden, we believe. We think we’re signing Madison Square Garden to do it.”
