Trump asked New Yorkers ‘what have you got to lose’ by voting for him. The answers came thick and fast

When former President Donald Trump asked a loyal crowd of supporters in Uniondale, New York on Long Island what the state has to lose by voting for him, he faced nothing but cheers. Online, however, it was a different story.

“I say to the people of New York, with crime at record levels, with terrorists and criminals pouring in, and with inflation eating your hearts out, vote for Donald Trump. What the hell do you have to lose?” Trump asked the cheering crowd.

California Democratic Representative and Senate candidate Adam Schiff came up with a list: “What do we have to lose? Years of progress on climate, the return of high-tech manufacturing, our standing around the globe, the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Social Security, our democracy. Let’s not find out.”

Author Goldie Taylor simply said: “Everything.”

In a separate post, she added: “We were always coming to this moment— whether Trump or some other candidate— when a nominee for POTUS is chiefly and unapologetically fueled by white nationalism.”

“Our democracy?” SV Date, HuffPost White House correspondent wrote.

The former president listed a number of reasons why New Yorkers should back the Republican nominee, something they haven’t done since Ronald Reagan won re-election against Jimmy Carter’s former Vice President Walter Mondale in 1984.

“We have horrible, disgusting, dangerous, filthy encampments of junkies and homeless people living in places that our children used to play Little League Baseball, which they don't get to play very much anymore, do they?” he asked.

He claimed several categories of violent crime were up, including robbery and assault.

“The trains and subways are squalid,” he said, claiming that there’s a 75 percent chance that a child riding