WILDWOOD, Nueva Jersey — After a long week in court, Donald Trump heads to the Jersey Shore, where he will be greeted by thousands of friends.
Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, hopes to draw what his team calls a “mega crowd” to a rally Saturday night in the southern New Jersey resort town of Wildwood. It is being held 150 miles (241 kilometers) south of the New York City courthouse, where he spent most of the week during a trial for allegedly paying to suppress complaints against him.
The beachfront rally was designed to serve as a show of force at a critical time for Trump, a presidential hopeful known for drawing large crowds.
Hours before Trump took the stage, thousands of Trump loyalists wearing “Make America Great Again” hats and T-shirts gathered in the sand between the boardwalk and carnival attractions. to greet the former Republican president.
“Ordinary American people support it 100%,” said Doreen O’Neill, a 62-year-old nurse from Philadelphia.
“They have to deceive him, defame him and humiliate him in that courtroom every day,” O’Neill said. “This country will go crazy if the elections are stolen again.”
The former president’s legal problems have emerged as a central issue in the campaign.
Trump has repeatedly accused the Biden administration and Democratic officials in New York of using the legal system to hinder his return to the White House.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden opened his weekend with a series of fundraising events on the West Coast.
Source: AP
