Trump adviser unpacks why former president is holding rally in deep-blue state weeks from election

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UNIONDALE, New York — It’s been 40 years since a Republican nominee has carried New York state in a presidential election. 

You have to go back to President Ronald Reagan, who won the state as part of his landslide re-election victory in 1984.

But that’s not stopping former President Trump from holding a rally Wednesday in his native state, which he has no serious chance of carrying in his election faceoff with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump’s rally in Uniondale is in Long Island’s Nassau County, a longtime Republican stronghold in the reliably blue state of New York.

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Former President Trump is set to hold a rally at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, on Wednesday. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)

And it’s Trump’s second large campaign event this year, after

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