Trump Says Fracking Approval Can Help Him Win NY

By Associate Press

GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he thinks he can win New York, despite Democrats’ significant voter registration advantage, because he’s in favor of a practice called fracking.

Trump tells an audience in New Orleans on Friday night that “New York has been let down” because its governor, Andrew Cuomo, will not allow hydraulic fracturing to release natural gas.

He says that, had Cuomo made a different decision, the state would have been able to lower taxes and pay off its debt.

He points to Pennsylvania, which allows the natural gas extraction process, saying: “They took those beautiful, beautiful natural resources. They took ’em out.”

He says that in Pennsylvania, people drive around in Cadillacs. He then pivoted to a Cadillac-sponsored event being held on one of his golf courses.

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