Trump goes from court to campaign at a bodega in his heavily Democratic hometown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : The patio of the Mexican restaurant next door was packed with onlookers, and staff from a hair salon on the other side gathered by their open door."Papito Trump is coming.
48% : Trump will be confined to the courtroom on most days, dramatically limiting his movements and his ability to campaign, fundraise and make calls.
47% : At the least, Trump, long a famous figure for New Yorkers, showed Tuesday that he can still turn heads in the city.
45% : Plans also include local appearances Trump can make after court recesses each day.
39% : "I think that he will make a difference," she said of Trump.
37% : Trump was expected to stop by Sanaa Convenient Store, a tiny bodega that sells chips, sodas and other snacks.
37% : "Trump cited the 2022 New York governor's race, when Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul prevailed over Republican former Rep. Lee Zeldin -- but by a much tighter margin than usual for her party's statewide nominees.
36% : She said she doesn't agree with everything Trump says or does but declared that "he speaks the truth."
35% : Trump insists he can win New York in November anyway, and he has mused about holding rallies in the South Bronx and Queens, where the former president was born and grew up, and even Madison Square Garden.
27% : Trump has argued that the ongoing influx of migrants to the city, where he grew his real estate empire and became a tabloid fixture, has made New Yorkers more willing to vote for him since his 2020 loss to Biden.
25% : Bragg oversees the office now prosecuting Trump.
24% : Trump has for months assailed Democratic-run cities as crime-ridden and overrun with migrants who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.
21% : Trump aides said the former president and current Republican nominee chose the store because it has been the site of a violent attack on an employee.
19% : Donald Trump plans to visit New York's Harlem neighborhood after spending his second day in a lower Manhattan courtroom as a criminal defendantNEW YORK (AP) --
8% : Fresh from a Manhattan courtroom, Donald Trump plans Tuesday to visit a New York bodega where a man was stabbed to death, a stark pivot for the former president as he juggles being a criminal defendant and the Republican challenger intent on blaming President Joe Biden for crime and inflation.

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