Madison Square Garden, the iconic venue known for Knicks basketball games and Billy Joel concerts, will host Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tonight in deep blue New York City. With Election Day just over a week away, more than 40 million voters are already considering whose image of America they want to see prevail.
Trump’s choice of venue, a heavily Democratic city in a state that hasn’t turned red since President Ronald Reagan’s election, has attracted media attention, generated significant fundraising, and created some sort of opposition to the former. It seems to have more to do with staking rights. Where the president is from rather than a change of heart and mind.
The city has stepped up security around the world’s most famous arena, with enthusiastic supporters out before sunrise.
“This is New York, but it’s also MSG, and it’s Madison Square Garden,” President Trump said in a recent interview on Fox News Radio. “For people like you and me, that word means a lot. Madison Square Garden, right? Don’t you think so? … It’s a huge stop.”
Joining Trump on stage will be a star-studded cast of MAGA supporters, all in attendance, according to a lineup prepared by his campaign. The group, which ranges from elected officials to Trump’s personal friends, has helped sustain Trump’s campaign and defend his cause. Right-wing ideology seems to be infiltrating every corner of the internet with increasingly inflammatory statements. Some of tonight’s speakers have personal, political or professional ties to former presidents, while others represent specific spheres of influence in the evolving MAGA Republican Party.
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Tonight’s performers are:
elected official
After spending the morning on Sunday news shows, Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance is scheduled to appear on MSG tonight. They were joined by House Speaker Mike Johnson, who recently claimed that President Trump’s medical records are “irrelevant.”
Other House members Elise Stefanik of upstate New York and Byron Donald of southwest Florida are also scheduled to speak. Stefanik, a moderate turned MAGA spokesperson, spoke passionately at the 2020 Republican National Convention about “the Democrats’ baseless and illegal impeachment gambit and the media’s endless obsession with it.” Donald reportedly spoke on the phone with President Trump when he was informed that the classified documents lawsuit had been dismissed, and said that he personally thought the lawsuit was “insane.”
Previous and current Trump administration
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has had a lot of L’s lately, is coming to MSG today. After Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to President Joe Biden, he chose Giuliani to lead legal efforts to challenge the results. As a result of his actions in pursuit of that goal, Giuliani was ordered by a federal judge to, as Vanity Fair’s Beth Levin puts it, “basically give away everything he owned on earth to the election officials he defamed.” ” was ordered to be handed over.
