Trump's Madison Square Garden rally overshadowed by his allies' crude and racist remarks
Trump's New York rally was designed to mark the start of his closing argument in the final days of the 2024 campaign, but was overshadowed by other speakers.
Former President Donald Trump delivered his standard lines on topics from immigration to the economy Sunday at a packed rally at Madison Square Garden, an event that was designed to be the start of his closing argument nine days out from Election Day at a venue off the battleground map that he has wanted to campaign at for years.
But Trump’s remarks in his hometown, New York City, which went for more than an hour, were overshadowed by comments made by warm-up speakers in the roughly five hours before his prime-time address. They included a comedian's racist jokes about Latinos and Black Americans and were condemned by multiple Republican members of Congress, as well as speakers who used increasingly inflammatory language to describe Vice President Kamala Harris.
At the World’s Most Famous Arena and before one of his largest rally crowds of the cycle, Trump railed against opponents he sees as “the enemy from within,” described the media as “the enemy of the people,” referred to Harris’ “low IQ” and described her as a “vessel” for those aforementioned opponents, and said in a potential war with China the U.S. “would kick their ass.”
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