UNIONDALE, N.Y. (1010 WINS) – Former President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Nassau County next week as he seeks to mobilize New York’s suburban voters in a tight national race with Vice President Kamala Harris.
The rally will be held next Wednesday, Sept. 18, at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale. Doors will open at 3 p.m. Trump is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m.
The Trump team announced the rally in an email to supporters Wednesday, saying in part that “Nassau County is reeling from the harmful effects of the dangerously liberal policies championed by Kamala Harris and Democrats like Eric Adams.”
The email also pins the blame for higher prices on the current administration, saying, "disastrous economic policies are draining the bank accounts of hardworking New Yorkers."
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman told the Daily News in July that Trump had been planning a Long Island rally before he was shot and wounded during an attempted assassination at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
Trump was in New York City on Wednesday for the 9/11 anniversary commemoration. He’s previously said he believes he can win his former home state, though that would be an extraordinary feat for a Republican presidential candidate.
President Joe Biden won New York with 60% of the vote in the 2020 Election, and the state hasn’t voted for a Republican president since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
In May, Trump held large rallies in the Bronx and in Wildwood at the Jersey Shore, during which he predicted he could flip both New York and New Jersey red in November.
A Siena College poll released in early August—after Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris—found Harris had a 14-point lead over Trump statewide in New York, 53% to 39%.
However, Long Island voters are more receptive to Trump overall. A Newsday/Siena College poll conducted at the same time as the state poll found Trump leads Harris 50% to 44% on Long Island.
National polls show a close race between Harris and Trump, with the outcome likely to be determined by a handful of swing states.