New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appeared to call Trump supporters "clowns" on Thursday during a media appearance ahead of the former president’s NYC rally in the Bronx. (Adam Gray/Getty Images)
Trump, who has been in the state recently for his hush money trial, has said he thinks he has a good chance of winning the state in November despite the fact that it hasn’t voted Republican since 1984.
A recent Siena College poll showed President Biden with just a nine-point lead over Trump (47% to 38%) in the state. Biden won the state handily in 2020 with 60.8%.
Two years ago, Hochul also raised the ire of Republicans when she told GOP candidates in the state to "get out of town" and "head to Florida" where they belong.
In response to her comments, the Trump campaign told Fox News Digital: "Kathy Hocul is just upset that President Trump is pulling crowds in her state that she could only dream of; and Democrats are in disarray because Americans, including Hispanics and Blacks, are waking up to the fact that Joe Biden and the Democrat Party have been using them for votes and ripping them off for decades."
"We're here to say that the era of Trump and Zeldin and Molinaro — just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong. Get out of town," Hochul said in 2022. "You don't represent our values."
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event at Crotona Park in the Bronx borough of New York City, on Thursday. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The comments reminded some of Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's infamous "basket of deplorables" comments from a New York fundraiser in 2016.
"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?" Clinton said at the time. "The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up."
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Hochul's office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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