One might ask why Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, fresh off a Tuesday victory in New York, would shift gears on his bandwagon and direct it to small- town Berlin.
After all, the Republican voter turnout alone in the New York primary was 10 times greater than the total population of Worcester County and a hundred times greater than Berlin’s.
In fact, Trump’s 518,000 votes in the Empire State’s preliminary round outstrip the Eastern Shore’s year-round population by the tens of thousands.
There are, as it turns out, perfectly sensible reasons for the first visit by a presidential contender to this area since John F. Kennedy gave an address in Salisbury in May 1960.
First, as was demonstrated early this year up in New Hampshire and out in Iowa, it doesn’t make that much of a difference where rallies are held in terms of national exposure, because the national media — print, broadcast and digital — will be there to deliver whatever the message might be to the rest of the country.
Secondly, in Trump’s scramble to collect enough delegates to avoid a convention showdown in July, even the three who will be elected from the First Congressional District are important. Moreover, whoever wins the overall contest in the state will get all of Maryland’s 38 delegates.
Finally, and even more importantly, Trump is a New Yorker through and through, so it stands to reason that his advisors would encourage him to demonstrate the ability to connect with Main Street USA. It just so happens that Main Street is here.
After all, the Republican voter turnout alone in the New York primary was 10 times greater than the total population of Worcester County and a hundred times greater than Berlin’s.
In fact, Trump’s 518,000 votes in the Empire State’s preliminary round outstrip the Eastern Shore’s year-round population by the tens of thousands.
There are, as it turns out, perfectly sensible reasons for the first visit by a presidential contender to this area since John F. Kennedy gave an address in Salisbury in May 1960.
First, as was demonstrated early this year up in New Hampshire and out in Iowa, it doesn’t make that much of a difference where rallies are held in terms of national exposure, because the national media — print, broadcast and digital — will be there to deliver whatever the message might be to the rest of the country.
Secondly, in Trump’s scramble to collect enough delegates to avoid a convention showdown in July, even the three who will be elected from the First Congressional District are important. Moreover, whoever wins the overall contest in the state will get all of Maryland’s 38 delegates.
Finally, and even more importantly, Trump is a New Yorker through and through, so it stands to reason that his advisors would encourage him to demonstrate the ability to connect with Main Street USA. It just so happens that Main Street is here.