Trump to host New York rally following false reports of explosives nearby spread online: Live updates

Donald Trump will host a rally in suburban New York on Wednesday evening making a pitch to reverse a tax policy he signed into law in 2017 that has a bigger impact on higher tax states.

The former president will speak at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, Long Island, at 7pm, just three days after a second assassination attempt against him. Earlier in the day there was a brief security scare regarding a false report of an explosive device near the site that was quickly dismissed by law enforcement as having no factual basis.

"There is no validity to the report," a Nassau County PD spokesman told The Independent .

Trump’s decision to host a rally in New York is curious given that the election will almost certainly come down to voters in a handful of swing states. New polling from Quinnipiac shows Kamala Harris leading Trump by six points in Pennsylvania and five in Michigan — outside the margin of error.

A survey commissioned by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows the race between the former president and Harris tightening in Georgia , with Trump leading the vice president by just three percentage points, signaling yet another nail-biter from the Peach State in November.