Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his reelection campaign is planning to aggressively expand the number of states that are in play for the 2024 election—including New York and New Jersey.

Speaking to Breitbart News, the former president said he believes that he can win multiple states where Republicans have not performed well in many years, even decades. That includes Virginia, New Mexico, Minnesota, New Jersey, and New York, he said.

“One of the other things I’m going to do—and I may be foolish in doing it—is I’m going to make a heavy play for New York, heavy play for New Jersey, heavy play for Virginia, heavy play for New Mexico, and a heavy play for a state that hasn’t been won in years, Minnesota,” President Trump told the outlet.

He plans to do rallies in some of those states, according to the interview, even suggesting that he might hold a rally of sorts at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.

“I’m going to do rallies, I’m going to do speeches, I’m going to work them,” President Trump said. “That doesn’t mean I’m going to work them as hard as I work Pennsylvania, where I’m doing very well.” The former president won Pennsylvania during the 2016 election.

“But we’re going to do these other states too, and it will be a heavy move,” the former president said. “I may rent Madison Square Garden and that’s the belly of the beast, right?”

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