Trump courts Biden’s Black, Hispanic coalition in NY

Donald Trump rolled the dice on a campaign stop in deepest Democratic New York Thursday seeking to woo Black and Latino voters whose support for Joe Biden has shown signs of faltering. The event, in the Bronx where the Republican was trounced in 2020, follows a trend of Trump sorties into traditionally liberal states, most recently in New Jersey and Minnesota. But his speech in the South Bronx was more about signaling that he can draw large crowds among the Hispanic and African-American coalition seen as crucial to Biden’s hopes of retaining the White House. Though the crowd was predominantly white, it was markedly more diverse than at the recent event in New Jersey. In his first rally in his former hometown since 2016, Trump railed against uncontrolled immigration, invoking falsehoods about violent criminals crossing the southern border.  “You look at these people… they are physically fit, they’re 19 to 25, almost everyone is a male, and they look like fighting age — I think they’re building an army,” he said. “African Americans are getting slaughtered, Hispanic Americans are getting slaughtered,” he said, repeating debunked claims about crimes allegedly committed by migrants. In fact, New York City in 2023 saw...