A Democratic president running for president in the South Bronx is facing an inflation-ridden and unhappy president.  , I’ve seen this present previously.
Ronald Reagan, the Republican nominee for president against President Jimmy Carter, traveled to New York City on August 5, 1980, to deliver his message of” Make America Great Again.”
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Reagan had been encouraged by his alliance, Rep. Jack Kemp ( R- NY), to go to the internal area, it to preach the gospel of taxes- rate cuts, business zones and general hope. Reagan did exactly that, standing there to make unmet promises about an economic revival for the “hood,” standing on Carter’s exact location three years prior.
When I was a young employee on the Reagan campaign in the 1980s, I watched everything I was on system TV and perused the AP ticker’s pieces.  , ( Nothing was digital back then. )
It was, for sure, a loud scene, lots of Bronx clapping.  , Relying on a microphone to make himself heard, Reagan shouted,” I , ca n’t do a damned thing for you if I do n’t get elected”!
Reagan persisted, calling out Carter’s malfunction:” I have never seen anything that looked like this since London after the Blitz”. Well, in those days, some of the Bronx did seem as if it had been bombed in war.  , That was Reagan’s point: If the status quo is horrible, if the president had n’t kept his claims, why vote to ll- appoint him?
The media policy of the occasion was, of course, bad.  , These were the times when the modulator” Main Stream” was not used, because there was pretty much just great liberal media.  , However, the New York Times article captured at least some of the fruity social fluid that yr:” Reagan, in South Bronx, Says Carter Broke Vow, Raises Voice Above Chants”.
On August 6, 1980, Ronald Reagan walks through a lonely South Bronx area on Charlotte Street in New York. ( AP Photo )
Ronald Reagan addresses a crowd on Charlotte Street in the South Bronx on August 6, 1980. ( Jack Smith/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images )
We assured ourselves that the Gipper had at least receive credit for guts at campaign headquarters at 901 North Highland Street in Arlington, Virginia.  , He had gone into a Democrat lion’s den, kept his cool, displayed some celebrity power, delivered his good message—and but he’d find record with the state, if not with New Yorkers.
We inflated the size of our person.  , In truth, Reagan carried New York State that November. In 1976, Carter had won the Empire State, and the Bronx had helped a bit, giving him a 142, 000- voting ratio.  , By comparison, in 1980, as he was losing the position, Carter’s ratio in the Bronx fell to only 95, 000 seats.  ,
But now to 2024. Four years ago, Donald Trump lost the condition by a large percentage, but he only received a simple 16 percent of the ballot in the Bronx. Trump has, however, stated for times that he has a chance to get New York this year. In fact, Alvin Bragg, tragedy, and time have conspired to give Trump much more time in New York than he would have liked. Now, Trump’s April , attend to Harlem—where he shook hands with a violence survivor who had fought up against a harsh criminal—played well.  , Then now, it’s not hard to get Trump attention in the Bronx.
On April 16, 2024, former president Donald Trump visits the bay Sanaa convenience store in lower Manhattan. ( Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images )
On April 16, 2024, former president Donald Trump makes a visit to Sanaa convenience store, a bay in lower Manhattan, with company owners and local officials. In a later fight, Joe Alba, a worker at Sanaa’s convenience store, was fatally assaulted by another gentleman in 2022. The Manhattan District Attorney eventually decided to drop the case. ( Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images )
Former president Donald Trump speaks with downtown user Maad Ahmed, facility, during a visit to his bay on April 16, 2024, in New York. ( AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura )
However, a New York- just Siena surveys from this quarter finds that by a 52: 37 ratio, New Yorkers feel their condition is going in the wrong direction. A clear majority of people express concern about worsening offense, and a staggering 79 percent of people consider the immigration problems to be serious.  , So while the surveys showed Joe Biden ahead of Trump, 47: 38, if the president is below 50, the opponent has some potential.
Of course, it’s not just what Trump is doing.  , It’s what Biden is doing—or no doing.  , Prominently, the 46th leader is poor among non- whites. The statewide Siena poll from middle- May found Biden with merely 63 percentage of the Black ballot, and intensity, dark.
The Biden- Harris plan has staged numerous Black-themed events to increase those figures, but Politico’s” Playbook” newsletter was concerned about the” conventionality of the outreach,” according to the authors.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on May 11, 2024. ( Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images )
A limited view of the big crowd at a Trump campaign rally on May 11, 2024, in Wildwood, New Jersey. ( Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images )
There’s the rub: Younger Blacks, understandably, are less attuned to older officials.  , These days, figures such as Charlamagne Tha God, Killer Mike, and yes, Ye ( Kanye West ) are carving out their own destiny. In the meantime, comedian Dave Chappelle has ridiculed wokeness with electricity.  , Go to a Black church and you do n’t see much patience with LGBTQIA+.  ,
Speaking of strength, Trump floods.  , But, these next few weeks are going to be a crazy journey, and the South Bronx is then part of racing.  ,
