A panel of New Jersey voters recently indicated that former President Donald Trump has a solid chance to win the Garden State, which has traditionally been a Democratic stronghold. Despite the looming legal battles Trump faces, he appears to be picking up increasing support from voters nationwide.
The presumptive Republican nominee hosted a massive rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday, which drew an enormous crowd of supporters eager to see Trump speak. Initial estimates projected an attendance of roughly 40,000. However, reports indicate that anywhere between 80,000 and 100,000 people attended the rally.
New Jersey resident Roy Paret told Fox News that the legal predicament Trump faces is not having the negative impact one might think it would. He claimed the cases brought against the former president are similar to political persecution observed in “communism” and “third world” nations.
“It’s not having a negative impact, so if anything, it’s going in the opposite [direction] because they can’t believe that this is happening to a civilized nation,” he said. “What’s happening with their trial is really what you would think would happen either in communism or a Third World country, so this, I say, is definitely helping.”
Paret further states that Trump’s efforts to engage with locals in New York as the trial is underway will invariably benefit him before the election. The New Jerseyan suggested that his deep blue state might even flip red if election integrity is maintained.
“When he has free time, of course he has to stay local. He went to the bodegas in Harlem. He’s doing things in New York, and 100% this will help him, I feel, in multiple states, and it’s showing already,” he added. “And New Jersey, I agree, will turn red this time around as long as they can follow up on voter integrity [and] check out voter IDs. I feel New Jersey will be switching just like many other states out there.”
William Atkins, a student at Seton Hall University, said that Trump has “momentum” in New Jersey, He praised the state’s Republican Party for working to drastically increase voter registration in an effort to improve turnout.
“There’s momentum in New Jersey,” William Atkins, a Seton Hall University student, said. “It means that Trump is paying attention to the numbers, and I’d just like to give the NJGOP a shout-out with this, because they’re doing an amazing ground game at registering new party voters. And in New Jersey over the past few months, we’ve had double the Republican registrations than Democrat registrations, and so for a blue state, it really puts an emphasis on what could happen in November.”
Jeani Isaksen, a New Jersey resident who is a mother of four, illustrated that she knows of registered Democrats who are now affiliated with the Republican party because of the failures of the Biden administration.
“I know quite a few Democrats that have now definitely switched,” Isaksen said. “They’re not going to be voting for Biden, that’s for sure. How could you? I mean, we have so many illegals coming through the border committing these crimes, and here we are with… these scandal trials with Trump… When in history, have you ever had a president go through the things that this man is going through?” Watch footage from the massive New Jersey rally where Trump sounded off on Chris Christy:
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