Trump to rally at NYC’s Madison Square Garden; Harris heads to Philadelphia: Election live updates
Speakers at Manhattan rally to include JD Vance, Rudy Giuliani, Elon Musk, and Tucker Carlson
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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.”
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Former Trump staffer turned anti-Trump voice points out half a million Puerto Ricans live in Pennsylvania after comedian’s racist joke
Alyssa 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.”
Former 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.
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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Kamala Harris visits Philadelphia church during campaign visit
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at the Church of Christian Compassion during a campaign visit to Philadelphia on Sunday morning.
“Here in Pennsylvania, right now each of us has an opportunity to make a difference. Because in this moment we do face a real question. What kind of country to we we want to live in,” she said. “The great thing about living in a democracy is we the people have the choice to answer that question. So let us answer not just with our words, but with our works.”
Harris has spent several days campaigning in the Delaware Valley over the last week.
She urged the churchgoers to go to vote.
“In just nine days we have the power to decide the fate of our nation for generations to come,” she said.
Trump Attorney Alina Habba takes stage at Trump rally
Donald Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, is speaking at his Madison Square Garden rally. She walked out to a Ludacris song.
She, like all of the other speakers thus far, took a jab at Hillary Clinton for calling his rally a “Nazi rally” and pandered to the crowd by chanting “fight fight fight.”
Habba accused Democrats of engaging in “lawfare” and insisted that lawsuits aimed at investigating Trump’s alleged crimes were not just Democrats coming from Trump, but coming for “all of us.”
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With just days left until Election Day, three out of four Americans say in a new survey that US democracy is currently under threat.
That’s according to a recent New York Times/Siena College poll. While 76 percent of Americans say democracy is imperiled, they the cause varies significantly based on partisan leanings.
Meanwhile, 49 percent say that US democracy does a good job of representing the people, with 45 percent saying the opposite.
Most voters – 62 percent – also think that the government is beset by corruption and is mostly working for itself or to benefit elites.
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First speaker: Tony Hinchcliffe of the “Kill Tony Podcast"
The first speaker during Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally is a comedian named Tony Hinchcliffe of the “Kill Tony Podcast.”
He started his set by shilling for Mike Lindell’s “MyPillow” pillows, and told the crowd he bought four of them.
He called Puerto Rico — which is part of the US, and Puerto Ricans are Americans — a “floating pile of garbage in the middle of the ocean,” and said that Latinos “love making babies” and don’t “pull out,” but “come inside, like they did our country.”
Earlier in his set, he admitted that early in his career he was forced to sleep in a car outside the Comedy Store in LA.
Trump Madison Square Garden rally begins
Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City is underway.
Trump is expected to speak tonight around 5pm EST.
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The Oscar-winning actor, 49, previously endorsed Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
In a video posted to his Instagram account, DiCaprio said he was basing his decision on seeing the effects of climate change hit the United States.
“Earlier this month, hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated parts of Florida, Georgia and North Carolina,” he said. “Families lost homes, livelihoods and loved ones to some of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded. These storms have done an estimated $100 billion in damage. And make no mistake, these unnatural disasters were caused by climate change.”
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