2024-03-30 20:59:04
In front of Radio City Music Hall in Midtown Manhattan, New York, USA on the 28th (local time). Police have blocked vehicular traffic on Fifth and Sixth Avenues since the afternoon, around this tourist and commercial center where NBC broadcasting station and Rockefeller Center are located. The Music Hall sign had Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton written on it. The event was held by two former presidents to support President Biden with the intention of defeating Trump. Amid tight security, the 5,000 attendees who had registered in advance had to show invitations before the police cleared the way two blocks away. President Biden’s campaign called it a “historic fundraising event.”
In fact, the event on this day was hosted by late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert and featured a conversation between the three presidents and musical actors such as Queen Latifah, Lizzo, Ben Platt, Cynthia Erivo, and Lea Michele. It was a fund event where you had to pay at least $250 (340,000 won) to attend and $100,000 (135 million won) to take a picture with the president. In order for the president’s wife, Jill, to attend the after-event party for 500 people, she had to donate more. On this day, with the active support of Presidents Obama and Clinton, a total of $26 million (35 billion won) was set.
Unlike the festival-like atmosphere of people wearing dresses and entering the venue, hundreds of angry protesters gathered outside the event venue in the rain and faced off with the police. Most of them were demonstrations in support of Palestine denouncing the Biden administration. There was also a sign that said, “If you don’t want your face known, we will lend you a mask.” Although some people came out holding Israeli flags, there seemed to be an overwhelming number of people demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The majority of Americans in their 20s and 30s supported the Democratic Party. Even in New York, where support for the Democratic Party is high, the Palestinian issue seemed to unite young progressives.
Padumo Osman (28), an office worker living in New York, said, “We are supporting a war in which people are dying with our taxes, while ignoring internal problems.” He added, “In New York City alone, crimes of random assault on women are rampant, but the National Guard is being deployed. They just imitate the placement on the subway. They are just standing and looking at their phones. “After all, we only use taxes,” he said. Mr. Osman also showed off the fact that he carries self-defense supplies with him. She voted for President Biden four years ago, but she said she will vote blank in the New York State Democratic primary scheduled for the 2nd of next month. She added that the ‘Leave it blank’ movement is rising among young Democrats to leave primary ballots blank.
Eliza Masser (31), who was next to me, also said, “I voted for President Biden four years ago, but my frustration only grew. “The Biden administration is only pursuing pro-Israel policies, and people in Gaza are dying,” he said. “The way to have our voices heard in New York, where support for the Democratic Party is high, is to not vote or to vote for a third candidate.” . When she asked, ‘If I don’t vote in the presidential election, wouldn’t it be in favor of former President Donald Trump?’ the answer was, “I don’t know what the difference will be between the two of us even if it becomes Trump.”
Saunders Elburok (35), who came out to demand a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, also said he was concerned not only about war in the Middle East but also about crime. Mr. Elburok emphasized, “They say crime was rampant in the 1980s, but back then you just had to avoid certain areas at night. Now, crimes are happening in broad daylight and everywhere.”
Mr. Hugh (34), a man in his 30s who came to see the past presidents from afar on this day because it was “an amazing event,” said, “Most people in New York support the Democratic Party, but they are becoming more and more cynical about politics.” He said, “If you have a lot of money, you will see various shows inside the venue, but you should also listen to the voices of people outside the venue. “Nothing has been resolved, whether it’s housing costs or crime,” he said. “Dissatisfaction with the New York mayor is also high.”
The demonstration demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip took place by surprise even inside the music hall. When Colbert asked former Presidents Obama and Clinton, “Honestly, wasn’t it nice to live in the White House and what do you miss?” former President Obama responded, “I miss my team, which was smarter than when I lived in the White House,” and then-Vice President Biden said, While praising the president, he shouted and stopped answering. Former President Obama said to the Palestinian protesters, “There is no one with greater moral clarity than Biden. However, things in the world are complicated,” he said, actively defending President Biden.
Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump also visited New York on this day, so four current and former presidents were in New York. He attended the funeral of Officer Jonathan Diller, who was shot and killed by a former drug robber during a traffic stop in Massapequa, Long Island, an hour’s drive from Manhattan.
Former President Trump later met with reporters and said, “The person (who fired the gun) was a thug who had been arrested 21 times, and his passenger was also arrested several times, but they don’t know how to learn (from that level of punishment). “It is because there is no respect,” he said. “The bereaved family cannot go back to the way it was before.” “We must stop (crime) and return to law and order,” he argued. The New York Times (NYT) and others analyzed, “The intention is to highlight crime as a presidential election issue amidst the recent surge in crime concerns in New York.”
New York = Correspondent Kim Hyun-soo [email protected]
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