Trump joins wife Melania as he closes out Madison Square Garden rally: Live
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.
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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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Boebert’s arrival with her sons has sparked the opposite in Windsor, a community of just under 43,000 people about an hour north of Denver. Her relocation here from the Western Slope was divisive in itself – not just between Democrats and Republicans but also among loyal GOP voters – when she announced quietly during last year’s holiday season that she would abandon her re-election campaign in CD3 in favor of a run on the other side of the state.
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A clawed metal hand, beckoning for sacrifices. A necromantic monstrosity hunched in the darkness, white teeth showing through its skull. A terrible pact, and an ominous warning: “He craves only one commodity.”
This is the infamous trading card known as “Yawgmoth’s Bargain”, part of the popular collectible card game. Released in 1999, it has long since been banned from most forms of competitive Magic due to its ability to not just ensure a win, but also entirely take over a game to the point where nothing is fun anymore
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This could be the closest election in several decades. The race only became tighter in the past month, with what appears to be two unmovable camps of support.
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