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Donald Trump peddled lies and bashed Vice President Kamala Harris during a campaign rally at Madison Square Gardens on Sunday.
The Republican nominee was joined by an army of speakers, which included vice presidential nominee and Ohio Senator JD Vance, billionaire Elon Musk and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Even his wife, Melania, made an unexpected appearance.
The crowd of hundreds, which packed New York City streets ahead of the rally, erupted as the president took the stage and spoke in the deep-blue city. Despite the political leaning, the MAGA crowd made its presence known in Midtown.
“I will end inflation. I will stop the invasion of criminals coming into our country. And I will bring back the American dream, we need the American dream to come back home,” Trump said.
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. Harris spent Sunday visiting several places in the Philadelphia area. Both the vice president and Walz are set to head to Wisconsin and Michigan on Monday.
Key Points
- Trump: “This will be America’s new golden age,” talks taxes and claims he’ll cut Americans’ energy bills in half within one year
- Donald Trump’s running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, speaks at Madison Square Garden
- Kamala Harris takes the stage at Philadelphia rally
- Donald Trump Jr speaks at MSG, calls his father “king of New York,” suggests Democrats are “replacing” American voters
- Rudy Giuliani speaks at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally
Former 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 Graziosi28 October 2024 03:00 1730080842Former Donald Trump attorney and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani takes the stage, repeats conspiracy theories and misinformation
Former 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 on Sunday.
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.”
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Graig Graziosi28 October 2024 02:00 1730076610AOC asks Puerto Rican Democrats to send clip of MAGA podcaster’s racist remark to their families
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has asked her Puerto Rican Democratic followers to widely share a clip of MAGA pdocaster Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist remarks about Puerto Rico to their families in an effort to convince them not to back Donald Trump in the upcoming election.
Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” during a speech he gave to open Donald Trump’s Sunday campaign rally at Madison Square Garden. He also made vulgar and racist remarks about Latinos in general.
She cut detractors claiming she’s overly-sensitive off at the pass, saying she “doesn’t give a s*** about crude humor,” but was annoyed that Hinchcliffe didn’t “own” his words when he insisted he was making fun of “everyone” during his opening set.
Graig Graziosi28 October 2024 00:50 1730075852Trump wraps his Madison Square Garden rally
Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally has ended.
A live rendition of “New York, New York” began after his finished. Trump stood on stage with former First Lady Melania Trump during the song, mugging his approval of the singer throughout the song.
Immdiately after “New York, New York” ended, “YMCA” began and Trump left the stage.
Graig Graziosi28 October 2024 00:37 1730075290Trump supports limitation of free speech rights in the US, says American flag burners should be jailed for a year
Donald Trump suggested a bill that would see individuals who burn the American flag put in jail for a year.
The burning of the flag is a protected means of protest, and to criminalize it would be to limit Americans’ free speech rights — rights that people like Trump and his new buddy, Elon Musk, frequently claim they champion.
Graig Graziosi28 October 2024 00:28 1730074979Trump jokes he’s not “100 percent sure” his father is in heaven before insisting that he is a “good person"
Donald Trump joked that he wasn’t “100 percent sure” that his father was in heaven, but said if he was he’d be looking down and wondering why people were trying to put him in prison.
“I’m a good person,” Trump insisted.
Graig Graziosi28 October 2024 00:22 1730074482Trump claims that Kamala Harris has never worked at McDonald’s, and that’s why he went to “work” at one in staged photo shoot
Trump claimed that Kamala Harris “lied” about working at McDonald’s when she was younger, and he said that’s why he went to “work” at a McDonald’s for a day.
In reality, Trump held a fry basket in a staged photo op event at a McDonald’s location that shut down for the day to facilitate the event.
Graig Graziosi28 October 2024 00:14 1730074181Trump says he has a “little secret” he thinks will help Republicans keep the House
Donald Trump hinted that he and House Speaker Mike Johnson have a “little secret” that he thinks will help Republicans keep the House, but said he would not reveal what it is until after the election.
Graig Graziosi28 October 2024 00:09 1730074095Trump spends several minutes gushing about Elon Musk and his rocket ships, says he’ll let RFK Jr “go wild” on everything but oil and gas industry
Donald Trump spent several minutes rambling about Elon Musk and how impressed he was by a Space X rocket. He claimed Musk’s “dark MAGA” hat was the top selling MAGA hat the week after he debuted it.
He then said he was going to let Robert F Kennedy “go wild” on health, but said he was going to keep him away from the “liquid gold” — the oil and gas industry.
Trump then praised former First Lady Melania Trump for having the “best-selling book in the universe,” and admitted that he was worried about what she might write about him in the book.
He continued praising his family, including his youngest son Barron, who he called the “king of the internet.”
Graig Graziosi28 October 2024 00:08 1730073796Ricky Martin, Republican lawmakers push back against MAGA podcaster’s racist remarks about Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin told Americans to vote for Kamala Harris after Tony Hinchcliffe, a MAGA podcaster who opened Donald Trump’s rally on Sunday, called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” and made vulgar and racist comments about Latinos.
“This is what they think of us,” he wrote in Spanish to his 18.6 million Instragram followers. “Vote for @kamalaharris.”
He wasn’t the only one upset by the podcaster’s remarks; two Republican lawmakers who represent Latinos also pushed back on his comments.
Representative Jenniffer González-Colón, Puerto Rico’s nonvoting member of Congress and a Republican, called the comments “despicable, ill-advised and disgusting.”
She went on to say that there was “no place for such abominable and racist comments like those.”
Senator Rick Scott and Representative Maria Salazar also criticized the remarks in a statement.
“This rhetoric does not reflect GOP values,” Salazar wrote. “Puerto Rico sent 48,000+ soldiers to Vietnam, with over 345 Purple Hearts awarded. This bravery deserves respect.”
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