ANDREW NEIL: Believe it or not, it could prove to be the black and Hispanic voters that help Donald Trump win back the White House By Andrew Neil, Daily Mail Published: 00:01 BST, 25 May 2024 | Updated: 00:17 BST, 25 May 2024 e-mail 6 shares 61 View comments Donald Trump held a campaign rally in the South Bronx on Thursday night. It would be hard to find another part of America less Republican than this once notorious New York borough, which is overwhelmingly black and Hispanic — and which voted 85 per cent for Joe Biden in 2020. The Bronx was also once synonymous with urban squalor, decay and lawlessness.
Many years ago, when most New Yorkers regarded it as a no-go area, I rather foolishly managed to get lost there while driving out of the city with a friend en route to Vermont . We found ourselves in the midst of block after block of urban devastation that made the old Glasgow Gorbals' tenement slums look somewhat plush. I spotted a police station, which seemed the safest place to seek directions.
We approached the duty desk. The cop looked at us suspiciously, then incredulously when he heard our British accents. I doubt he ever expected to meet two idiot white limeys in his precinct.
He pulled a pump-action shotgun from under the desk but — phew! — used it only as a pointer for the huge map behind him. He showed us the quickest way back to the interstate highway and growled: 'You stay on this highway 'til you've left the borough. Got it?' Donald Trump may find suppor.