前总统唐纳德·特朗普周三晚上告诉纽约长岛的集会人群，他将前往俄亥俄州的斯普林菲尔德，这个城镇他在两周前的辩论台上说，“人们开始吃狗、猫和其他家养宠物。”
“我要去斯普林菲尔德，我要去奥罗拉，”他告诉集会参与者。
特朗普没有具体说明他声称在斯普林菲尔德吃宠物的移民的种族，但在X，他的竞选伙伴JD Vance继续提出了海地无证移民耗尽社会服务的问题。
“卡玛拉·哈里斯把20，000名海地移民扔进了俄亥俄州的一个小镇，混乱随之而来，”万斯此前在x
特朗普周三晚上在长岛集会的原因是为了吸引选民纽约一个蓝色的州。周三晚上的活动是特朗普在该州的第二次集会，除此之外，他还在纽约民事欺诈审判出庭期间进行了多次竞选活动。
特朗普在向人群发表讲话时表示，哈里斯在11月的胜利将把纽约“变成一个第三世界国家，如果它还不是的话。”
特朗普在能容纳1.6万名观众的拿骚体育馆发表讲话时，感谢执法部门周日挫败了一起针对他的明显的暗杀企图，并赞扬了捕捉到嫌疑人车辆照片的女子，说他想见见她。
然后他转向他的民主党对手，“激进的左翼民主党政客和假新闻媒体。”
特朗普说:“这个信息是，现在是时候停止谎言，停止恶作剧，停止诽谤，停止针对我的法律诉讼或虚假诉讼，停止声称你的对手会把美国变成一个独裁国家。”“饶了我吧。因为事实是我不是民主的威胁。他们是。”
在特朗普活动前的竞技场外，小贩们排队出售各种特朗普商品。庆祝活动包括扬声器播放的音乐，特色是前面印有特朗普头像的金色汽车和令人眼花缭乱的特朗普夹克。特朗普的竞选团队声称，申请了6万张票，这将成为特朗普在这个竞选周期中最大的集会之一。
在开门前几个小时，与会者的队伍就排到了大楼周围。
特朗普的集会就在他最初被安排的同一天判决在他的纽约民事欺诈案中。该案件的法官将对他的判决从9月18日推迟到11月26日，即总统大选之后。
在周三的集会之前，特朗普承诺逆转他在2017年签署成为法律的税收政策，以此来讨好纽约人。在他的社交媒体平台上的一篇帖子中，特朗普声称他将“收回盐”，建议取消州和地方税收减免的上限。特朗普在2017年的税法中，将扣除额限制在1万美元。
纽约国会共和党代表团的大多数人一直在推动逆转国会山的减盐上限，引领着围绕这一问题的持续辩论。
然而，尽管许多当地共和党人庆祝特朗普的姿态变化，但这也是因为他最近推出了一系列减税措施，引发了对赤字大幅增加的担忧。
“你到底有什么可失去的?投票给川普!这位前总统在周三的集会之前在他的社交媒体网络上发布了一条消息:“我会扭转局面，收回盐，降低税收，等等。”。
今年5月，特朗普承诺将纽约变成红色纽约深蓝南布朗克斯的竞选集会试图讨好占该地区人口大多数的西班牙裔和黑人选民。
“我们得到了前所未有的支持...不要以为住在蓝色城市就无所谓。你生活在一个蓝色的城市，但它正在非常非常迅速地变红，”特朗普当时说。
特朗普竞选团队在这个竞选周期一直在努力讨好纽约人，试图至少转移民主党人的热情，并帮助让初选竞争更加激烈。
这也是他在安之后的首次大规模竞选集会对特朗普的明显暗杀企图周日他在西棕榈滩打高尔夫的时候。前一天，特朗普举行了一次市政厅会议，近4000名密歇根州选民参加了会议;拿骚拉力赛的规模预计将是它的四倍。
特朗普也曾多次较小的活动站点今年早些时候，他在为期七周的封口费付款刑事审判中出庭，在出庭前后，在每一站都强调了几个竞选信息。
4月中旬，他参观了哈莱姆区的一家小酒店，两年前这里曾是一次致命刺伤的现场，以突显他所声称的纽约民主党检察官在起诉他时未能确保公共安全。当月晚些时候，他访问了曼哈顿中城的一个建筑工地，吹嘘自己获得了工会工人和工人阶级选民的支持。
Trump tells New York rally crowd he's going to Springfield, Ohio, within 2 weeks
Former President Donald Trump told a Long Island, New York, rally crowd on Wednesday night that he is going to Springfield, Ohio,the townhe said on the debate stage two weeks ago, is where "people are resorting to eating dogs, cats and other household pets."
"I'm going to Springfield, and I'm going to Aurora," he told the rally attendees.
Trump did notspecify the ethnicity of the migrants he claimed were eating pets in Springfield when he made those remarks, but on X, his running mateJD Vance continuouslyraised the issue of Haitian undocumented immigrants draining social services.
"Kamala Harris dropped 20,000 Haitian migrants into a small Ohio town, and chaos has ensued," Vance previously said on X.
Trump's reason for his Long Island rally on Wednesday night was to appeal to voters inNew York, a blue state. Wednesday night's event was Trump's second rally in the state, on top of the multiple campaign stops he made in between his court appearances for his New York civil fraud trial.
As he addressed the crowd, Trump said a Harris win in November would turn New York "into a third-world country, if it isn't already."
Speaking at the Nassau Coliseum -- a venue that holds 16,000 spectators -- Trump thanked law enforcement that thwarted an apparent assassination attempt on him on Sunday and praised the woman who captured a picture of the suspect's vehicle, saying he'd like to meet her.
Then he turned to his Democratic opponent, "the radical left Democrat politicians and the fake news media."
"The message is it's time to stop the lies, stop the hoaxes, stop the smears, stop the lawfare or the fake lawsuits against me, and stop claiming your opponents will turn America into a dictatorship," Trump said. "Give me a break. Because the fact is that I'm not a threat to democracy. They are."
Outside the Coliseum ahead of Trump's event, vendors lined up selling various Trump merchandise. The celebration, which included music blaring through speakers, featured golden cars with Trump's face on the front and bedazzled Trump jackets. Trump's campaign claimed that 60,000 tickets were requested, which would make it one of Trump's largest rallies during this campaign cycle.
The line for attendees stretched around the building hours before doors opened.
Trump's rally was on the same day he was initially scheduled to besentencedin his New York civil fraud trial. The judge in the case delayed his sentencing from Sept. 18 until Nov. 26 -- after the presidential election.
Ahead of his Wednesday rally, Trump worked to court New Yorkers by promising to reverse a tax policy he signed into law in 2017. In a post on his social media platform, Trump claimed he would "get SALT back," suggesting eliminating the cap on state and local tax deductions. In his 2017 tax law, Trump capped deductions at $10,000.
A majority of New York's congressional Republican delegation has been pushing to reverse the SALT deduction cap on Capitol Hill, spearheading the ongoing debate around the issue.
However, while many local Republicans have celebrated Trump's posture change, it also comes as he has recently rolled out a series of tax breaks, raising concerns about significant increases to the deficit.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE? VOTE FOR TRUMP! I will turn it around, get SALT back, lower your Taxes, and so much more," the former president posted on his social media network ahead of his Wednesday rally.
In May, Trump pledged to turn New York red during acampaign rally in deep-blue South Bronx, New York, attempting to court the Hispanic and Black voters that make up a majority of the area's population.
"We have levels of support that nobody's seen before ... Don't assume it doesn't matter just because you live in a blue city. You live in a blue city, but it's going red very, very quickly," Trump said at the time.
The Trump campaign has worked to court New Yorkers this campaign cycle, attempting to at least pull enthusiasm away from Democrats and help make down-ballot races more competitive.
This is also his first large-scale campaign rally after anapparent assassination attempt on Trumpwhile he was golfing in West Palm Beach on Sunday. The day prior, Trump held a town hall where nearly 4,000 Michigan voters attended; the Nassau rally is expected to be four times the size.
Trump had also made multiplesmaller campaign stopsin New York City before and after his mandated court appearance throughout his seven-week hush money payment criminal trial earlier this year to highlight several campaign messaging at each stop.
In mid-April, he visited a small bodega in Harlem that was the scene of a fatal stabbing two years earlier to highlight what he claimed was the failure of Democratic prosecutors in New York to ensure public safety as they prosecute him. Later that month, he visited a construction site in midtown Manhattan to boast support from union workers and working-class voters.
