Donald Trump is delivering his speech at a rally in Madison Square Garden
Trump walked out to a live version of Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the USA, his usual walkout song.
“I’m thrilled to be back in the city I love,” Trump said. “I’d like to begin by asking a very simple question. Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” he asked.
The crowd screamed: “No!”
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“I’m thrilled to be back in the city I love,” Trump said. “I’d like to begin by asking a very simple question. Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” he asked.
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The crowd screamed: “No!”
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Elon Musk is scheduled late into the series of speakers taking the stage at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, highlighting the influence the Tesla CEO holds in the campaign.
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“We’re going to get the government off your back and out of your pocketbook,” Musk said. “America is going to reach heights that it has never seen before. The future is going to be amazing.”
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Donald Trump’s warm-up speakers at the Madison Square Garden rally have been crude and xenophobic at times, seemingly in an attempt to double down on Trump’s rhetoric and to play to the hardcore fans here.
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The remarks in some ways are nothing new — Trumpworld celebrities typically speak in dark and visceral terms to copy Trump and win over his base — but they were notably pointed on Sunday.
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From the start, Tony Hinchcliffe, the host of the Kill Tony podcast, stoked racial animus about Latinos and African Americans.
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Latinos “love making babies”, Hichcliffe said to raucous laughter. “There’s no pulling out. They come inside, just like they do to our country.”
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“There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” Hinchcliffe also said.
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Then the radio host Sid Rosenberg leaned into attacking Democrats, using ad hominem slurs to describe Hillary Clinton — a villain to Trump supporters who lapped it up.
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“Hillary Clinton. What a sick son of a bitch. The whole fucking party. A bunch of degenerates. Lowlives, Jew-haters and lowlives. Every one of ‘em. Every one of ‘em,” Rosenberg said.
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And Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host who lost his prime time perch in the wake of the network getting sued for defamation over promulgating false 2020 election fraud claims, went after Kamala Harris.
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“As the first Samoan Malaysian low IQ, former California prosecutor to ever be elected president,” Carlson falsely said in a mocking tone of Harris’s racial background, “no, she’s not impressive.”
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The vice-president said she would create an “opportunity economy taskforce” in efforts to foster economic growth in the Caribbean archipelago by creating more jobs.
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She also recognized the need to urgently rebuild Puerto Rico’s energy grid. The US territory is still facing the aftermath of several hurricanes that ravaged the power grid. Puerto Rico is also undergoing the effects of austerity measures imposed by a non-elected fiscal board after the local government filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history.
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“I will cut red tape to ensure disaster recovery funds are used quickly and effectively, and work with leaders across the island to ensure all Puerto Ricans have access to reliable, affordable electricity,” she said.
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“I will never forget what Donald Trump did and what he did not do when Puerto Rico needed a caring and incompetent leader,” she said. “He abandoned the island, tried to block aid after back-to-back devastating hurricanes and offered nothing more than paper towels and insults,” she added.
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The Vice President spoke about the war in Gaza less than five minutes into her speech.
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“We must seize this opportunity to end this war and bring the hostages home,” she said. “I will do everything in my power to meet that end.”
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Campaigning in Nevada today, Tim Walz has criticized Donald Trump’s planned rally at Madison Square Garden this evening as “a direct parallel” to a Nazi rally held at the venue in 1939. The comparison comes in the final days of a race where the Harris-Walz campaign has increasingly tried to draw attention to statements previous Trump appointees have made calling their former boss a “fascist”.
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“Donald Trump's got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden. There's a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid 1930s at Madison Square Garden. And don't think that he doesn't know for one second exactly what they're doing there.” – Tim Walz in Henderson, NV pic.twitter.com/wQxz24YwcF
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On 20 February 1939, in the lead-up to the second world war, 20,000 people attended a pro-Hitler rally at Madison Square Garden organized by the German American Bund.
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“Donald Trump’s got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden. There’s a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid 1930s,” Walz said. “Don’t think that he doesn’t know for one second exactly what they’re doing there.”
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Earlier this month, New York Democratic state senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, whose district includes the Garden, called on the venue to cancel the rally, saying: “Allowing Trump to hold an event at MSG is equivalent to the infamous Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939.”
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Here’s Edward Helmore with more on the 1939 rally:
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In the final days of the 2024 election, Kamala Harris’s campaign has slowballed Joe Biden’s offers to campaign for his vice-president, Axios reports.
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“President Biden wants to campaign for Vice President Harris in the last days before the election,” the outlet writes. “Harris’ campaign keeps responding: We’ll get back to you, three people familiar with the dynamic told Axios.”
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Although it’s grateful for Biden’s service, Harris’s team is wary of aligning her with the increasingly unpopular president. “He’s a reminder of the last four years, not the new way forward,” a person familiar with the situation told Axios.
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Yesterday, Biden began campaigning for Harris on his own, attending union events in Pittsburgh. There, he reportedly called Republican White House nominee Donald Trump “a loser as a candidate and … a loser as a man”, among other remarks.
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Biden also called said the choice between Trump and Harris in the 5 November election was one of “decency versus lack of decency”.
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Members of the president’s team told Axios they believe Harris’s campaign is underestimating the current president’s appeal among white, working-class communities in the state where he was born.
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Campaigning in Philadelphia today, Kamala Harris has started her day by delivering remarks at the Church of Christian Compassion, a Black church in west Philadelphia.
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Speaking about the Apostle Paul, Harris said, “Paul understood something profound. I believe, pastor, that God’s power doesn’t just work for us, it also works within us.”
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“What feeds my spirit — I see faith in action all over. Everywhere I go,” she told attendees. “I see a nation determined to turn the page on hatred.”
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After her remarks, the pastor told congregants that there would be a bus outside to take people to the polls, CNN reports. “There are 20 buses at places of faith all over the city of Philadelphia,” he added.
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📍West Philly
VP Harris gave remarks during service at the Church of Christian Compassion
“We have 9 days until we decide the future of this nation. What feeds my spirit — I see faith in action all over. Everywhere I go.”
“I see a nation determined to turn the page on hatred.” pic.twitter.com/Ktrdp7BG3m
— aaron navarro (@aaronlarnavarro) October 27, 2024
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In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union this morning, JD Vance and host Jake Tapper had a heated exchange over statements former Trump administration officials have made calling the ex-president a fascist.
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"That's really your argument?"
Watch @jaketapper grill @JDVance over warnings about fascism from former Trump officials ahead of November's election. pic.twitter.com/jWaK4qJ0p2
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) October 27, 2024
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“So all those 10 people, including the former vice president Mike Pence, all of these people have this horribly damaged worldview, and they’re all just going after Donald Trump because they want to send people into war? That’s really your argument?” Tapper said.
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“Absolutely,” Vance answered. “Absolutely that’s my argument.”
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“These aren’t conservative Republicans who are concerned about Donald Trump? They’re not? That’s not right?” Tapper asked.
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“All of these people, Jake, they came into office thinking that they could control Donald Trump. That when he said he wanted peace in the world–”
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“Mike Pence thought he could control Donald Trump?”
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“Yes, he did. And when he found out, when he found out that he couldn’t, they all turned on Donald Trump, and a lot of them got fired.”
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Former president Donald Trump is over an hour into his speech at a rally in Madison Square Garden.
He has so far promised to cut taxes, raise wages, end the war in Ukraine and the war in the Middle East, rebuild the military, and remove critical race theory from schools.
He also proposed a bill to impose a one-year jail sentence for anyone who burns the American flag.
At his rally in New York, Donald Trump congratulated his wife, Melania Trump, on the release of her new memoir.
“I was nervous when I read it,” he confessed. “I said, ‘I wonder if she said some bad stuff about me.’ I was very nervous, but she’s great.”
He thanked several of the speakers who took the stage before him, as well as the chief executive officer of Madison Square Garden Sports and Madison Square Garden Entertainment, James Dolan, for providing the venue.
At a rally in New York City, Donald Trump referenced a report that stated the US would not win if a war were to break out against China.
“I said to myself, assuming that’s true, how stupid are you to put out a report like that?” Trump said, possibly referring to a report by The Brookings Institution. “You don’t put out reports like that, and it’s not true. We would kick their ass.”
Later, he once again called Democrats “the enemy from within.”
“They’ve done very bad things to this country,” he said. “They are indeed the enemy from within, but this is who we’re fighting. These are the people who are doing such harm to our country with their open border policies, record-setting inflation, the green new scam, and everything else that they’re doing.”
Donald Trump called Vice President Kamala Harris “grossly incompetent” and a candidate with “a very low IQ.”
“She’s unfit for office. Everyone knows it,” he said. “No one respects her, no one trusts her, no one takes her seriously.”
He later repeated misleading criticism of the Biden administration’s hurricane response in North Carolina, where Hurricane Helene ravaged the state, and then boasted about not using a teleprompter.
Donald Trump is repeating his usual anti-immigrant comments at a rally in Madison Square Garden.
He showed a video montage of television news snippets related to crimes committed by migrants in the US.
“The United States is now an occupied country,” he said. “On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history, and get the criminals out.”
At his rally in New York City, Donald Trump said that, if elected, he would support a tax credit for family caregivers who take care of a parent or a loved one.
“They add so much to our country and are never spoken of,” he said.
Trump also said that he would make interest on car loans fully tax deductible, “but only for cars made in America.”
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Donald Trump appeared at 7.11pm – introduced by Melania – to a cacophony of noise and Lee Greenwood singing his walkout song God Bless the USA.
Trump is essentially bringing back his happy place by recreating the RNC euphoria at this Madison Square Garden rally: the speakers copied his dark rhetoric again, Hulk Hogan ripped his shirt again, Melania spoke again and Trump has the opportunity to bask in his supporters adulation.
Donald Trump is delivering his speech at a rally in Madison Square Garden
Trump walked out to a live version of Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the USA, his usual walkout song.
“I’m thrilled to be back in the city I love,” Trump said. “I’d like to begin by asking a very simple question. Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” he asked.
The crowd screamed: “No!”
Melania Trump, the former president’s wife, makes remarks following Elon Musk’s speech.
“Our lives are complicated, even during the best of times, and sadly today, a declining quality of life, coupled with economic instability makes it difficult for business to thrive,” she said.
“New York City and America need their magic back,” she added, “a country of tomorrow that will shape our future and reset expectations for the generations.”
She introduced the next speaker: Donald Trump.
Elon Musk is delivering remarks at Donald Trump’s campaign event in New York City
Elon Musk is scheduled late into the series of speakers taking the stage at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, highlighting the influence the Tesla CEO holds in the campaign.
“We’re going to get the government off your back and out of your pocketbook,” Musk said. “America is going to reach heights that it has never seen before. The future is going to be amazing.”
During Donald Trump’s campaign rally in New York City, the CEO of the UFC, Dana White, said that Kamala Harris is “not an agent of change.”
“Change is needed, but change will not come from the status quo, and she is the status quo. If you want real change, you’ll vote for proven leadership,” he said.
Later, Howard Lutnick, the CEO of the Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald, took the stage. He spoke about the firm’s history before expressing his support for the former president.
“Donald Trump loves this city, no matter how crappy they treat him. He is back because he loves you and he loves this city,” he said.
McDonald’s seems to be a recurring theme in the speeches at Donald Trump’s campaign event. Earlier, JD Vance questioned Kamala Harris’s stint at the fast food joint.
Now, the former president’s son Donald Trump Jr is on the stage and used McDonald’s as an example of rising food costs.
“Let me tell you, if Donald Trump Jr has sticker shock at McDonald’s, we have a serious problem,” he said.
Lara Trump called New York City “the greatest city on Earth in the greatest country on Earth,” pointing to her father’s contributions to the city’s development.
“New York City made Donald Trump, but Donald Trump also made New York City,” she said. “He changed the skyline of this city, rebuilt it.”
Former president Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump and his wife, Lara Trump, are speaking at the campaign rally in New York City.
“This is so much more than a political movement. This is the greatest family in the world. We are fighting for a country we love,” Eric said.
“Somebody tried to kill him, and despite that, every single time he stands up and he says ‘fight, fight, fight’,” he added.
