President Trump may in fact win New York, a typical deep-blue state, a state House of Representatives said Saturday.
The president told the New York Post earlier this week that his campaign believes his home state is up to par, “That we will do our best to win New York and that will be the first time – is that since Ronald Reagan, I advise ? “
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Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican member of the state legislature since 2013, agreed that it is possible.
“I think so,” she told Fox and Friends Weekend.
Malliotakis, who is running for Congress, believes Trump will have an “overwhelming” win in her Staten Island district, which he led by 10 percentage points in 2016. The seat is currently being held by Democrat Max Rose.
According to a poll conducted by The New York Times with poll results, Hillary Clinton won 59 percent of the vote statewide in 2016.
“President Trump and I are certainly on the same page when it comes to restoring law and order back to the streets of our city,” said Malliotakis, who called it “a winning message.”
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“We are excited about all of this and bringing fresh vision to this city and state because people are extremely confused about the rise in crime, the rise in taxes,” she said. “They are terribly frightened by the fact that our congressman was marching with the crowd ‘defending the police’ for our local area, and this is happening all over the state.”
Malliotakis added: “In fact, the people who complained the most are the ones who voted against the president in 2016, and I think they will remember this November.”
She slammed Rose and Mayor Bill de Blasio for defending the closure of Riker’s Island and the release of prisoners from coronavirus and police.
“We have a big problem here economically and only President Trump can fix this nationally, I believe,” Malliotakis said. “But surely he is putting pressure on our mayor and governor when it comes to reopening our city, that is also a huge problem.”
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A New York Post editorial that Trump retweeted called the virus the “last straw” for a growing number of New Yorkers leaving crowded suburbs.
“New Yorkers are tired of shooting and looting, homelessness on the streets, sub-par online schools, sky-high taxes and the utter forgetfulness of pulses like Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo,” the editors said.
