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Donald Trump is getting ready to take the stage at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night along with a number of well-known people within the MAGA movement.
Some of the speakers include vice presidential nominee and Ohio Senator JD Vance, Speaker Mike Johnson, former New York Mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump Jr, billionaire Elon Musk, and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Doors opened at 12pm ET and the program is expected to start at 5pm ET.
Trump’s Manhattan rally comes as Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced a swing state blitz in the last few days before Election Day. They will crisscross the country to visit all seven battleground states, with Harris heading to Philadelphia on Sunday before both of them move on to Wisconsin and Michigan on Monday.
A fired-up Michelle Obama ripped into Trump on Saturday as “a convicted felon” facing “obvious mental decline” and a “predator found liable for sexual abuse” while campaigning for Harris in Michigan.
The former First Lady stumped in Kalamazoo with a speech in which she told crowds she had a “genuine” fear for “our country.”
1730064342Former US Rep Tulsi Gabbard says voting for Harris will end in “nuclear war”The parade of defeated primary opponents continued at Donald Trump’s New York rally; former US Representative Tulsi Gabbard — who failed a Democratic presidential primary run in 2020 — took the stage. Gabbard recently announced she was joining the Republican Party.
“A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for Dick Cheney,” Gabbard said, claiming that it was a vote for “nucelar war.”
She insited that Trump would keep the US out of war and would stop the nation’s involvement in ongoing conflicts around the world.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Former Representative Liz Cheney, have both voiced their opposition to Trump.
She also claimed a vote for Harris was a vote for “censorship” and the “erosion” of American’s Constitutional rights.
Graig Graziosi27 October 2024 21:25
1730063958Vivek Ramaswamy hits on DEI policies, repeats anti-trans talking points in Trump rally speechDefeated GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy — whose early primary campaign was focused on criticizing Trump — spoke in support of Trump at his Madison Square Garden rally.
Ramaswamy took aim at “DEI” policies and “woke” ideology during his speech.
He also said that Election Day should be a national holiday, and that only single-day voting with paper ballots should be allowed for the sake of election security. There is no evidence that early voting or mail-in voting is any less secure than day of voting.
“If you want to seal the border, vote Trump,” Ramaswamy said. “If you want to prevent World War III, vote Trump.”
He then pandered to Black Americans, insisting that Trump’s America First agenda also included them. He attempted to do the same with gay voters, but then repeated anti-trans talking points, including accusing doctors of performing “chemical castrations” on children.
Ramaswamy told Gen Z voters that being a “real rebel” was saying they are conservative and want to have families.
Graig Graziosi27 October 2024 21:19
1730063337House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks at Trump’s rallyHouse Speaker Mike Johnson spoke at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally.
“We cannot afford turning the House or the Senate over to the Democrats,” Johnson said. “Do you want four more years of rising crime in every community? No. How about four more years of woke ideology in our schools and our military?”
The crowd shouted “no” after each of Johnson’s questions.
He then claimed that Democrats were “Marxists.”
“This is not your father’s Democratic Party,” he said, claiming that modern Democrats wanted to turn the USA into a “European-style, Marxist, borderless utopia,” to which the crowd booed.
Graig Graziosi27 October 2024 21:08
1730062997Vice President Kamala Harris takes the stage in Philadelphia rally Vice Preisdent Kamala Harris has taken the stage at her rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
She quickly impressed upon the voters at the event the importance of participating in this year’s election.
“There is too much on the line, and we must not wake up the day after the election and have any regrets about what we could have done in these next nine days,” she said. “So let’s spend these next nine days knowing we did everything we could.”
Graig Graziosi27 October 2024 21:03
1730062855Who is Barron’s best friend Bo Loudon? Trump’s young gun, Mar-a-Lago nepo baby and conservative influencerSurrounded by middle-aged campaign aides, the former president turned to an unlikely source to court young male voters: his youngest son and his influencer best friend.
Earlier this year Trump, 78, began experimenting with the new audience by engaging with YouTubers and podcasters, many of whom are sympathetic towards the MAGA movement.
James Liddell27 October 2024 21:00
1730062425Doug Emhoff tells Jewish voters in Georgia that Trump is “not your friend”Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, campaigned for his wife in Georgia on Sunday. He stopped in Sandy Springs at a brewery for an event filled with Jewish supporters for Harris.
During his event, Emhoff noted that Trump had recently made comments that admired Hitler’s generals, and pointed out to the Jewish voters that “he’s not your friend.”
The comments were made the same day that Trump hosted a rally in Madison Square Garden. Hillary Clinton compared Trump’s rally to a 1939 Nazi party rally that was held at Madison Square Garden prior to America’s involvement in World War II.
Graig Graziosi27 October 2024 20:53
1730061726Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller takes the stageDonald Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller spoke at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.
Miller is widely believed to be the architech of Trump’s immigration agenda.
Within moments of speaking he said that illegal immigrants had destroyed the lives of Americans.
He then claimed that Democrats were trying to take away Americans’ right to vote by bringing lawsuits and “slander” against Donald Trump. Miller also repeated the lie that Democrats tried to kill Trump, even going so far as to attribute both assassination attempts to the Democrats.
“He was fighting for your children, for your wives, for your husbands, for everyone you love in the world,” Miller said.
He then insisted that “criminal migrants” and gangs were “raping” children every day, before proclaiming that America was for “Americans only.”
Graig Graziosi27 October 2024 20:42
1730061055Questions about GOP candidate’s medical discharge fuel talk about bullet wound scandalThe Montana Senate race is increasingly being dominated by talk of scandal as the election enters its final week and Democrats make their last push to defend a crucial incumbency.
Jon Tester and Tim Sheehy are separated by single digits in the only race where a Republican challenger has been consistently leading a Democratic Senate incumbent. Tester, who has represented the state since 2007, has trailed his opponent by a significant margin for several months, though a The Hill/Emerson poll released earlier this month showed that gap possibly narrowing in his favor.
It’s a race that could decide which party controls the Senate in the upcoming year.
John Bowden27 October 2024 20:30
1730060414Former Trump staffer turned anti-Trump voice points out half a million Puerto Ricans live in Pennsylvania after comedian’s racist jokeAlyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump White House staffer who is endorsing Kamala Harris for president, pointed out on Sunday that a racist joke made by podcaster Tony Hinchcliffe at the start of Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally probably won’t play well with battlground Pennsylvania’s half-a-million Puerto Rican residents.
Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico — which is a part of America — a “floating island of garbage in the ocean.”
Graig Graziosi27 October 2024 20:20
1730059678Former Donald Trump attorney and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani takes the stage, repeats conspiracy theories and misinformationFormer New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani — fresh off a judge’s decision to turn over his property to Georgia election workers he defamed — took the stage at Madison Square Garden for Donald Trump’s rally.
He started with an impression of Pope John Paul II calling New York city great.
Within a minute of being on the stage, he had referenced 9/11 and the New York Yankees.
Giuliani bungled a reference to East Palestine, Ohio by calling it “New Palestine” and referenced a “subway derailment.” East Palestine was the victim of a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals that derailed and polluted the city. There is no subway system in East Palestine.
The former mayor then discussed 9/11 again and likened it to the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel. He said he was “on the side of Israel” and claimed that Palestinians were taught from the age of 2 to kill Americans.
At one point Giuliani said “I’m not gonna do conspiracy, but I’m not not gonna do conspiracy,” after which he immediately posited the baseless conspiracy theory that Democrats were behind the assassination attempt on Trump, saying “they better not do it again.”
Graig Graziosi27 October 2024 20:07
