Trump holds campaign rally in the Bronx as he seeks to make inroads with Hispanic and Black voters

By Kate Sullivan and Harry Enten, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump held a rally Thursday in the Bronx as his campaign looks to make inroads with Hispanic and Black voters ahead of November’s election. The event in one of the most Democratic counties in the country comes days ahead of closing arguments in Trump’s New York criminal hush money trial. Trump faces 34 felony counts and has pleaded not guilty. The trial has tethered the former president to New York for much of the past six weeks, but Thursday’s event in Crotona Park in the South Bronx was Trump’s first major campaign rally in the state since his initial presidential run in 2016. Trump has visited a bodega, which was the scene of a fatal stabbing in 2022, a construction site and a fire station in Manhattan since his trial began in mid-April. As he addressed supporters in the park Thursday, Trump dedicated most of his remarks to bashing President Joe Biden, arguing that his rival is “not getting the job done for the Bronx,” the state of New York or the country. “African Americans are getting slaughtered. Hispanic Americans are getting slaughtered,” Trump said as he argued...