Live From New York
A Trump Grows in Brooklyn
As soon as the polls closed in New York at 9 p.m., the media immediately declared Trump the victor. It took the media longer to call the race for Hillary. The exit polls showed an easy win for Trump but a more underwhelming victory for Hillary.
“All the Democrats I know distrust her,” a registered female Democrat in Long Island said to me. “To a person they think she is dishonest.”
Trump has taken to calling her “crooked Hillary,” which delighted audiences as he campaigned through the state. After a horrendous stretch, Trump’s campaign has stabilized, enjoying a “tsunami of support” in New York, as CNN’s Anderson Cooper put it. At the apparent direction of his de facto new campaign manager Paul Manafort, Trump went quiet for two weeks, avoiding pointless interviews with tendentious hosts like Chris Matthews.
Less was more for him in New York. Rudy Giuliani endorsed him, as did the New York Post, which praised his “outer-borough sensibility.” Trump grew up in the neighborhood of Jamaica Estates in Queens, which these days, under the dysfunctional leadership of New York City’s Marxist mayor Bill de Blasio, looks more and more like a cesspool.