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

Related video: Michelle Obama launches scathing attack on Donald Trump

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.”

Key Points

• People begin to line up outside of Madison Square Garden ahead of Trump rally
• Here’s the speaker list for Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally
• Gracie Abrams and other music stars to join Harris-Walz in final swing state blitz before Election Day
• A growing number of Americans are concerned with Trump’s age, but still not as many who worried about Biden

[27 October 2024 13:00 · Alex Lang]

A growing number of Americans are concerned with Trump’s age, but still not as many who worried about Biden

An increasing number of Americans say Donald Trump is too old to be president — but not as many as when President Joe Biden faced similar concerns about his age over the summer.

A new poll from YouGov found that 44 percent said Trump, at age 78, is too old to lead the executive branch. That figure is up from 35 percent who said the same in a similar February survey.

Along the same lines, the number of people who said he’s not too old dropped from 53 percent in February to 46 percent in October.

Those figures are compared to President Biden, 81, who dropped out of the 2024 presidential campaign and endorsed Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. In a similar poll in February, 63 percent of respondents said Biden was too old to be president. That figure jumped to 70 percent in July.

[27 October 2024 12:30 · Andrew Feinberg]

Gracie Abrams and other music stars to join Harris-Walz in final swing state blitz before Election Day

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are closing out October with a burst of travel that will see both candidates make appearances in all seven battleground states ahead of the November 5 presidential election.

The vice president’s travel streak includes a major speech in Washington, DC, one week before Election Day, at the same site where Donald Trump rallied the mob that broke into the Capitol on January 6.

Harris and her running-mate are set to barnstorm through the contested states for a series of rallies focused on getting out the vote and “harnessing the energy of these events to mobilize voters to go to the polls,” according to the Harris-Walz campaign.

[27 October 2024 12:00 · Mike Bedigan]

Here’s the speaker list for Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally

The Trump campaign has sent out the speaker list for the former president’s Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden.

Doors are at noon, with the former president due to speak at around 5pm ET.

• Sen. JD Vance
• Speaker Mike Johnson
• Rep. Elise Stefanik
• Rep. Byron Donalds
• Tulsi Gabbard
• Rudy Giuliani
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• Lara Trump
• Eric Trump
• Donald Trump Jr.
• Elon Musk
• Dan Scavino
• Stephen Miller
• Dana White
• Tucker Carlson
• Brooke Rollins
• Steve Witkoff
• Howard Lutnick
• Grant Cardone
• Sergio Gor
• Michael Harris Jr.
• Tiffany Justice
• Lee Greenwood
• Christopher Macchio
• Mary Millben
• Sid Rosenberg
• Kill Tony
• Scott Lobaido
• David Rem

[27 October 2024 11:40 · Chris Stevenson]

A historic gender gap is emerging ahead of the election and will likely decide if Trump or Harris wins

With just over a week left before Election Day, a historic gender gap is emerging that may decide whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris wins the White House.

Recent national polling has noted that women decisively backed the vice president 53 percent to 36 over her Republican rival.

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[27 October 2024 11:16 · Chris Stevenson]

Beyonce makes Kamala Harris endorsement Instagram official: ‘Time to sing a new song’

[27 October 2024 10:47 · Chris Stevenson]

Michelle Obama: ‘We’ve got to do something'

Michelle Obama took to the stage yesterday at a rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in her first appearance on the campaign trail alongside Kamala Harris.

"If we want to help this country finally turn the page on the politics of hatred and division we can't just sit around and complain – no, we've got to do something," the former first lady told the crowd.

[27 October 2024 10:00 · Mike Bedigan]

Eric Adams urges people to ‘dial down temperature’ ahead of Trump’s MSG rally

Beleagured New York Mayor Eric Adams urged people to “dial down the temperature” ahead of Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Gardens on Sunday evening, and dismissed suggestions that the former president was a “fascist” and should not be allowed to hold an event at the venue.

“I had those terms hurled at me by some political leaders in the city, using terms like Hitler and fascists,” he told reporters on Saturday.

“I think, as I’ve [said] over and over again... I think we could all dial down the temperature, and I’ve heard people say that the former president should not be able to have a rally in Madison Square Garden. I strongly disagree.

“This is America, this is New York, and I think it’s important that we allow individuals to exercise their right to get their message clear, to New Yorkers, and our job as a city and as a police department is to make sure they can do that in a peaceful way. I think that we must be extremely cautious.

“The heat we turn up today, pre-election, is going to have to be the heat we’re going to have to govern in, and I think we need to show a level of respectable communication, and so when people called me fascist and other terminologies, I didn’t like it, and I don’t think it’s fitting to anyone to state that the former president is equal to being Hitler.”

Adams also emphaisized the effect of such remarks on New York’s large Jewish population in the conext of rising antisemtism across the US.

The mayor is currently facing a slew of federal criminal charges relating to corruption while in office.

Doors at Trump’s rally at MSG are scheduled to open at noon eastern time, with the former president set to speak at around 5pm.

[27 October 2024 09:00 · Mike Bedigan]

ICYMI: Michelle Obama slams ‘predator’ Trump as she delivers bleak warning for reproductive health at Harris rally

Michelle Obama slammed Donald Trump as a “felon, slumlord” and a “predator” in a fiery speech in Michigan, where she delivered a stark warning for the future of reproductive rights in the US should the former president return to the White House.

In some of her most potent remarks on the campaign trail thus far, the former First Lady painted a sobering picture of the state of abortion rights and pregnancy care in the years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade and revoked a constitutional right to abortion access.

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[27 October 2024 08:00 · Mike Bedigan]

Watch: Michelle Obama begs ‘don’t hand fate to Trump’ over women’s rights

[27 October 2024 07:00 · Mike Bedigan]

Trump promises to make McDonald’s ice cream machines ‘great again’

Donald Trump’s famous campaign slogan collided with his love of fast food as the former president promised to make McDonald’s ice cream machines “work great again.”

The former president took to his Truth Social platform on Saturday night with a post that played off a popular meme that the franchise’s desert-making equipment is frequently out of commission.

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