Trump is coming to New York City and Madison Square Garden with the election just days away

Madison Square Garden, the iconic venue famous for its Knicks and basketball games Billy Joel concert, will host the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tonight in deep blue New York City. With Election Day just over a week away, over 40 million voters pondered whose vision of America would prevail.

Trump’s choice of location — in a solidly Democratic city in a state that hasn’t turned red since the election of Ronald Reagan — appears to have more to do with attracting media attention , which brings in big fundraising numbers and makes some kind of claim on the Democratic party. the president’s birthplace than changes hearts and minds.

The city has increased its security presence around the “World’s Most Famous Stadium,” where enthusiastic supporters have been outside ever since. before sunrise.

“It’s New York, but you know, it’s also MSG, it’s Madison Square Garden,” Trump speak in a recent FOX News Radio interview. “People like you and me, those words mean a lot. Madison Square Garden, right? Don’t you think so? … That was a huge stop.”

Join Trump on stage, according to one squad The campaign delivered an all-star cast of MAGA loyalists, all of whom participated. This group—from elected officials to Trump’s personal friends—has played a key role in Maintain your campaignprotect yourself The comments are increasingly inflammatoryAnd seemingly pushing right-wing ideology into every corner of the internet. While several of tonight’s speakers have personal, political and professional ties to the former president, they also represent specific spheres of influence within the growing MAGA Republican Party.

Here is the list of who will be tonight:

ELECTED OFFICIALS

After spending morning on the Sunday news program, Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance will be at MSG tonight. He was joined by the Speaker of the House Mike Johnsonanyone nearby declared that Trump’s medical records were “irrelevant.”

Other House representatives, Elise Stefanik in upstate New York and Byron Donalds of Southwest Florida, will also speak. Stefanik is gone from a moderate for a MAGA spokesman, gave an impassioned speech at the 2020 GOP Convention about “the Democratic Party’s baseless and illegal impeachment sham and its obsession with endless media coverage of it.” Donalds was according to the report spoke to Trump on the phone when he received news that the classified documents case had been dismissed, noting that he personally thought the case was “crazy.”

PREVIOUS AND CURRENT TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

Former mayor of New York City Rudy Giulianiwho has had a lot of L’s lately, will be at MSG today. After Trump lost to the President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, he chose Giuliani to head legal efforts challenging the results. As a result of his pursuit of that goal, Giuliani was ordered to surrender by a federal judge, for Vanity fair‘S Bess Levin put it“Essentially, all of the election worker’s earthly possessions were defamed by him.”