‘I’m telling you, this is a place that can be won,’ he said.
NEW YORK—Former President Donald Trump headlined the New York Young Republican Club’s annual Gala on the evening of Dec. 9, telling the cheering audience that so many people had come out to support him that he had seen the spillover crowd on his drive to the Wall Street location.
“It is great to be back in New York, and it’s a true honor to address the oldest and largest Young Republican Club in the United States,” he said.
“I want to express my tremendous gratitude to all of you for being one of the very first organizations in the entire nation to endorse my 2024 [run]. It’s happening, it’s happening. You shouldn’t have had to wait this long. But you know, things like that happen.
“I’m telling you, this is a place that can be won.”
He revealed that his optimism stemmed from the fact that the majority of his supporters are average Americans. According to President Trump, the bulk of his campaign funds hasn’t come from megadonors but from regular people and families who give an average of $61, adding up to “millions and millions of dollars each week.”
“We’re taking in numbers that nobody’s ever seen before,” President Trump said.
“And if we win New York … then we win the election very, very easily.
“If we win New York and we’ll counter all of the cheating that will go on, because we have to catch them.”
Contrasting Campaigns
The former president made several references to alleged election fraud during the 2020 general election and then noted that he initially hadn’t planned to make President Joe Biden a major campaign point. But then “once I got indicted, the first time, and then the second, third, fourth … what’s happened is, since they’ve done it, the gloves are off.”
President Trump ran through his campaign, contrasting it to the Biden administration’s policies.
By Catherine Yang and Eva Fu
