Trumps secret fanbase: NY Democrats crave his win to take heat off their failures

Former President Donald Trump is gaining in swing-state polls — and you can bet one group is secretly pleased: New York’s elected officials.The city’s Democrats use big, bad Trump as a cartoon foil to district the public from their own failures.Last week, Trump announced a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Oct.27, two weekends before Election Day.State Sen.

Brad Hoylman-Sigal, whose Manhattan district includes MSG, immediately lodged a complaint via Trump supporter Elon Musk’s X.“Allowing Trump to hold an event at MSG is equivalent to the infamous Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939,” Hoylman-Sigal whined.The rally will “endanger the public safety of New Yorkers and has the potential to incite widespread violence ..

.I demand The Garden keep our city safe by cancelling the Trump rally.”This “demand” — ignored by MSG — is rich.It’s not that Hoylman-Sigal is wrong: Voters in his district are terrified about “public safety” and “widespread violence.”It’s just that they know these crises have nothing to do with Trump.How’s the crime rate in Manhattan’s 14th precinct, which includes MSG?So far this year, the area has suffered four murders, twice the number seen by this time last year.

In 2022, over the same time period, it clocked six murders.That makes an average of three killings annually every year through early October since early 2020, when New York City abruptly became more dangerous.For the previous decade, for comparison, the average number of annual murders in the district through each fall hovered between one and two.Three of this year’s murders were on or near 8th Avenue, in a stretch of five blocks from 38th to 43rd Streets — minutes from MSG.The fourth killing was at 33rd Street and 7th Avenue, just off the MSG property line.The victims included a 22-year-old woman stabbed on the avenue around 10:00 p.m.in June and a 55-year-old man stabbed by a fellow resident of ...