Opening statements were heard Friday in the trial of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/daniel-penny" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Penny</a>, a New York City subway passenger who faces charges relating to the death of a homeless man who allegedly threatened other passengers last year.
Penny, a 25-year-old former Marine, faces up to 19 years in prison after he put Jordan Neely, who was allegedly threatening passengers, in a chokehold. Neely died at the scene.
&#8220;This is a case about a young man who did for others what we would want someone to do for us,” said Penny’s attorney Thomas Kenniff, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/daniel-penny-trial-kicks-off-opening-statements" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Fox News</a>. &#8220;Words like ‘I’m ready to die. I&#8217;m ready to serve a life sentence,’ when these threats spoken in the confined [space] in a moving subway car, you either bury your head and pray or you stand up and protect thy neighbor. That’s what Danny Penny did.&#8221;
In his own opening statements, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran said that Neely “took his last breaths on the dirty floor of an uptown F train – at the time he died he was 30 years old, homeless, on synthetic drugs, and suffering from mental illness.”
&#8220;[Penny] did not intend to kill him, but under the law deadly physical force such as a chokehold is permitted only when it is absolutely necessary and only for as long as it is absolutely necessary,&#8221; Yoran continued in his 45-minute long opening statement.
Yoran said Penny held Neely in a chokehold for an “unnecessarily reckless” 5 minutes and 53 seconds.
Penny’s attorneys have argued that their client’s chokehold was justified due to Neely’s threatening behavior, but they also question whether the chokehold caused Neely’s death. The medical examiner never provided specific evidence to support the claim that Neely died of asphyxiation from the chokehold, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/10/20/us-news/daniel-penny-trial-begins-jurors-to-be-asked-what-would-you-do/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“Some people say I was trying to choke him to death, which is also not true. I was trying to restrain him,” Penny said previously, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daniel-penny-speaks-out-about-death-of-jordan-neely-disputes-key-claim-about-headlock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The Daily Wire</a>. “You can see in the video there’s a clear rise and fall of his chest, indicating that he’s breathing. I’m trying to restrain him from being able to carry out the threats.”
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The defense will also try to admit evidence of Neely’s abuse of the drug K2, which was found in his system when he died, though the medical examiner’s report didn’t say how much of the drug was found. Penny’s defense has attempted to dismiss the case based on this information, but has been denied.
Neely was given Narcan – a powerful drug to combat overdoses – by first responders when they first arrived at the scene, CBS reported. Those first responders also didn’t immediately perform CPR because they found Neely had a faint pulse when they arrived. They did eventually perform CPR.
Penny said he took action against Neely because Neely was threatening passengers. Court documents from the incident indicate fellow passengers were afraid of Neely and feared for their lives, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-daniel-penny-court-docs-subway-riders-hid-feared-for-lives-over-neely-threats-satanic-behavior" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“I want to hurt people, I want to go to Rikers. I want to go to prison,” one woman said Neely was yelling that day on the subway. That woman, who was with her son, said she hid behind his stroller as Neely allegedly charged at other passengers.

Daniel Penny

Trial Begins For Daniel Penny In Controversial Subway Chokehold Case

Crime

Jordan Neely

New York City

U.S.

It&#8217;s not every day that you accidentally stumble upon a vast conspiracy among the nation&#8217;s various local police departments — especially when it&#8217;s a conspiracy that relates to the upcoming presidential election. But yesterday, as I was watching some reporting about New York City&#8217;s decision to decriminalize jaywalking, that&#8217;s exactly what I did.
In case you missed it, yes, New York&#8217;s city council just voted to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-legalizes-jaywalking-supporters-complain-laws-against-it-had-racial-implications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decriminalize jaywalking</a>. No one&#8217;s going to get any more tickets for crossing against the light, or for walking in the middle of the street. Technically, jaywalkers still don&#8217;t have the right of way, so I guess they might have some liability if they cause an accident. But realistically, it&#8217;s open season for jaywalking in the city. The mayor, Eric Adams, didn&#8217;t take any official action on this bill to decriminalize jaywalking — probably because he&#8217;s busy with the Biden administration&#8217;s attempts to throw him in prison — so the bill has now automatically become law.
Here&#8217;s a report on the new law from a local news station. And as you listen to this, pay close attention to what the male anchor says in the beginning:
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That&#8217;s an interesting little hypothetical. The Democrat politician asks: &#8220;When was the last time you said, &#8216;I&#8217;m happy they caught that jaywalker?'&#8221; And then the reporter says &#8220;Never.&#8221; Therefore, we&#8217;re meant to conclude we don&#8217;t need the law against jaywalking.
First of all, if you&#8217;ve ever been unfortunate enough to drive a vehicle in New York, then the answer to this question would be a resounding &#8220;Yes.&#8221; You would scream with joy if the police arrested every single pedestrian who was walking in the road, even if they were there legally. Pedestrians make driving about a million times slower and more annoying in New York. Drivers in New York wouldn&#8217;t shed a single tear if it became a capital offense to jaywalk.
But even if we pretend that&#8217;s not true, it&#8217;s a pretty interesting argument that these women are advancing, if you think about it. They&#8217;re saying that, if you&#8217;ve never stopped yourself and said, &#8220;I&#8217;m happy they caught that guy for violating law X,&#8221; then we don&#8217;t need law X anymore.
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It&#8217;s arguably not a bad way of looking at things, but coming from Democrats in New York, it&#8217;s a pretty entertaining approach. Imagine these people applying this principle to, say, New York&#8217;s business records law — the one they accused Trump of violating. Prior to Trump, has anyone in the history of New York ever found themselves saying that they&#8217;re really glad that someone was held accountable for victimless, misdemeanor record keeping violations that happened 7 years ago? Obviously the answer to that question is no. So why do we have those laws on the books? It would be fun to watch that politician (and the reporter) answer that particular question.
It would also be entertaining to ask these women whether we should get rid of, say, the entire tax code while we&#8217;re at it. After all, I don&#8217;t see anyone celebrating IRS agents who audit people for not reporting $600 they just received on Venmo. So why don&#8217;t we decriminalize every single accounting offense and tax code violation? Those aren&#8217;t rhetorical questions. It&#8217;d be a great idea. But of course, these questions never occur to Democrats in New York. They&#8217;re enforcing &#8220;equity,&#8221; not logic.
In any event, back to my conspiracy. You may have noticed how the anchor (and the politician) explained the reasoning for this new law. But let&#8217;s focus on the anchor for now, because he actually seems pretty skeptical of the law. As the anchor put it, &#8220;The overwhelming majority of jaywalking tickets were given to minorities. So why didn&#8217;t they just level the playing field on these tickets?&#8221;
In other words, the anchor wants to know why the police didn&#8217;t simply ticket more white people for jaywalking, while ticketing fewer blacks and Hispanics. Wouldn&#8217;t that solve the whole problem? If we did that, then instead of 90% of jaywalking tickets going to black people and Hispanics, we could make it closer to, say, 40%. And then racial equity will be achieved.
This is the kind of question you only ask when you&#8217;ve been subjected to decades of lies about crime statistics by Democrats like Kamala Harris and Barack Obama, to the point that you actually believe them. It&#8217;s a question that makes a very significant assumption that happens to have no basis in reality. And that assumption is that members of every racial group are jaywalking at precisely the same rates.
If you truly believe that assumption is true, then there is indeed a vast conspiracy among thousands of local police departments, all over the country. There&#8217;s no other explanation for what&#8217;s going on. That&#8217;s because, as I&#8217;ve discovered, these so-called &#8220;racial disparities&#8221; in jaywalking enforcement happen to exist everywhere — not just in New York. 
Here&#8217;s a report from San Diego from a couple of years ago, for example. For some reason, they interviewed a guy who had a beef over his jaywalking ticket. And then they get into the statistics, which reveal just how deep the rot goes in the San Diego police department. Watch:
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So, 16% of the tickets went to blacks, even though they make up only 6% of the population. And this is &#8220;proof,&#8221; according to the activist, that the police are racist. There can&#8217;t be any other explanation for that data. And she doesn&#8217;t stop there: &#8220;Black people are disproportionately affected by almost every type of decriminalization.&#8221;
Well, that gives you some sense of just how widespread the conspiracy is. Across every type of crime, across the entire country, the police are enforcing laws in a racist manner. It can&#8217;t possibly be that different demographic groups are committing different rates of crime. That&#8217;s just unthinkable. Instead, you&#8217;re commanded to think that any difference in crime statistics must be due to one thing and one thing only, which is racist cops.
A few weeks ago, I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-shockingly-easy-test-has-been-deemed-racist-heres-why" target="_blank" rel="noopener">talked about</a> how the DOJ used this &#8220;reasoning&#8221; during the Obama administration to sue various police departments for enforcing the law. One of the cities they went after was Ferguson, Missouri — which also happens to have an issue with &#8220;disproportionate&#8221; jaywalking tickets. That&#8217;s how vast this conspiracy of racist traffic cops is. Watch:
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The data just keeps coming in. If you&#8217;re keeping track, from New York to San Diego to Ferguson, racist traffic cops are &#8220;targeting&#8221; black Americans for jaywalking. In fact these racist cops are so brazen that they&#8217;ll often target these black Americans *on video*. That&#8217;s what happened in Jacksonville a few years ago. This is a video from Vox that tries really, really hard to present a police officer as racist for doing his job and enforcing the law. Watch:
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From this clip, we can conclude that even when there&#8217;s video of a cop enforcing the law in a calm and impartial way — and even when everyone concedes that these people were jaywalking — we&#8217;re told it&#8217;s still racist because of those statistics. It doesn&#8217;t matter if black people are on video jaywalking, basically. It&#8217;s illegal to ticket them for it because then you&#8217;ll have a &#8220;disparate impact.&#8221;
It&#8217;s hard to overstate how widespread this moral panic has become. Over the past few years, especially at the height of BLM, there were national news stories about supposedly &#8220;racist&#8221; jaywalking arrests. Here&#8217;s one of them in Tulsa:
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The lawyer&#8217;s not even arguing his client is innocent, really. He&#8217;s implying that the optics are bad for the police because they should know that it&#8217;s racist to enforce jaywalking laws against black people. 
This incident made national news. There was a legal battle that stretched on for years. Apparently the police eventually paid a $20,000 settlement over it. And they did nothing wrong. When people are in the middle of the road, you can grab them and arrest them. You can even put them on the ground when they&#8217;re not responding. That&#8217;s how the law should work. But in cities like New York, it&#8217;s not the law anymore.
This is a battle the Left has waged for a very long time. Last year, the Left-wing outlet Mother Jones published an article <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/legalize-jaywalking/">entitled</a>, &#8220;The Case for Legalizing Jaywalking.&#8221; It makes all the predictable &#8220;disparate impact&#8221; arguments, where they assume that any statistical disparity is somehow proof of racism. 
And then there&#8217;s <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/legalize-jaywalking/">this paragraph</a>, which is a real doozy:
<blockquote>The notion that pedestrians should be relegated to sidewalks and allowed to cross the street only when a walk sign tells them it’s safe is a relatively new phenomenon. &#8230; Groups ranging from the Chicago Motor Club and the Automobile Club of Southern California to the National Safety Council and the Boy Scouts began using the word &#8216;jaywalker&#8217; in the late 1910s and early 1920s to insult pedestrians who had the audacity to enter the roadway outside of intersections. &#8230; Los Angeles passed the first anti-jaywalking ordinance in 1925, which became a model for other cities across the country. Discrimination soon followed.</blockquote>
Yes, according to Mother Jones, the idea that you shouldn&#8217;t walk in the middle of the street is a &#8220;relatively new phenomenon&#8221; that only began in the late 1910s and early 1920s. It&#8217;s possible — and I&#8217;m just spitballing here — that one reason for this change might be that cars themselves are a relatively new phenomenon that only became popular in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Maybe that&#8217;s why the idea of jaywalking came about &#8220;relatively recently,&#8221; as in, a century ago. This is like saying air sickness is a relatively new phenomenon that only began after people started flying in airplanes. It kind of goes without saying.
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But this is the level of &#8220;argument&#8221; you get when &#8220;equity&#8221; is the objective. You have to act surprised that we didn&#8217;t have jaywalking laws before we had cars. You&#8217;re reduced to inventing vast conspiracies to explain inconvenient data. In essence, you have to make yourself as dumb as Kamala Harris — all in the service of a delusional and counterfactual ideology.
In this particular case, the consequences couldn&#8217;t be any more obvious. You can visit any third-world country to see what it’s like when cars and pedestrians share the road equally. It&#8217;s total chaos. I’m not usually one to defend government regulation, but our roads are clearly safer and more orderly because of the laws and regulations in place. New York City is getting rid of a common-sense law that obviously makes the roads safer for everyone.
And they&#8217;re doing it because of the same guiding principle that the Biden-Harris administration outlined in a day-one executive order, which is to pursue &#8220;equity&#8221; in all aspects of government. We&#8217;ve talked a lot about the specific policy ramifications of electing someone like Kamala Harris, but this is another consequence that&#8217;s worth talking about. Presidents don&#8217;t just set policy. They also set a tone and a broader agenda. They set an example for people to follow all over the country.
A Kamala Harris administration would encourage and incentivize many more laws like the one that just passed in New York. A second Trump administration, on the other hand, would send a very clear signal that people are tired of lawlessness. It would mean that we can finally put an end to the fiction that every police department in the country is conspiring to &#8220;target&#8221; any particular racial group. It would be a rebuke of the policies of &#8220;racial equity&#8221; that have gotten so many people killed, across every demographic. That&#8217;s a rebuke that, for people living in New York, may come too late. But for the rest of us, it can&#8217;t come soon enough.

New York City traffic

NYC Is Decriminalizing Jaywalking In The Name Of ‘Equity’

NYC Is Decriminalizing Jaywalking In The Name Of 'Equity'

Discrimination

Ferguson

Jaywalking

Matt Walsh

Opinion

Police

San Diego

Systemic Racism

Opening statements will begin on Friday in the trial of Daniel Penny, a New York City subway passenger who faces charges relating to the death of a homeless man who allegedly threatened other passengers last year.
Jury selection was completed this week, with the jury seated on Wednesday, ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/opening-statements-begin-friday-daniel-penny-trial-jordan/story?id=115213409&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. There are seven women and five men, four of whom are people of color.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office, led by far-Left prosecutor Alvin Bragg, filed a motion accusing Penny’s defense team of using their challenges to strike at least 10 people of color from the jury pool, including a black woman with purple hair.
Judge Max Wiley said the trial is expected to last four to six weeks, ABC reported.
Penny, a 25-year-old former Marine, faces up to 19 years in prison after he put Jordan Neely, who was allegedly threatening passengers, in a chokehold. Neely died at the scene.
Penny’s attorneys have argued that their client’s chokehold was justified due to Neely’s threatening behavior, but they also question whether the chokehold caused Neely’s death. The medical examiner never provided specific evidence to support the claim that Neely died of asphyxiation from the chokehold, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/10/20/us-news/daniel-penny-trial-begins-jurors-to-be-asked-what-would-you-do/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
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“Some people say I was trying to choke him to death, which is also not true. I was trying to restrain him,” Penny said previously, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daniel-penny-speaks-out-about-death-of-jordan-neely-disputes-key-claim-about-headlock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The Daily Wire</a>. “You can see in the video there’s a clear rise and fall of his chest, indicating that he’s breathing. I’m trying to restrain him from being able to carry out the threats.”
The defense will also try to admit evidence of Neely’s abuse of the drug K2, which was found in his system when he died, though the medical examiner’s report didn’t say how much of the drug was found. Penny’s defense has attempted to dismiss the case based on this information but has been denied.
Neely was given Narcan – a powerful drug to combat overdoses – by first responders when they first arrived at the scene, CBS reported. Those first responders also didn’t immediately perform CPR because they found Neely had a faint pulse when they arrived. They did eventually perform CPR.
Penny said he took action against Neely because Neely was threatening passengers. Court documents from the incident indicate fellow passengers were afraid of Neely and feared for their lives, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-daniel-penny-court-docs-subway-riders-hid-feared-for-lives-over-neely-threats-satanic-behavior" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“I want to hurt people, I want to go to Rikers. I want to go to prison,” one woman said Neely was yelling that day on the subway. That woman, who was with her son, said she hid behind his stroller as Neely allegedly charged at other passengers.
Thomas Kenniff, one of Penny’s attorneys, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-daniel-penny-lawyer-talks-strategy-ahead-of-chokehold-death-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Daily Wire last week that the facts are on his client’s side, saying the prosecution had a “substantial threshold” to establish Penny’s guilt.
“They’re not intent-based offensives,” Kenniff said of the charges. “In other words, the prosecution doesn’t have to prove that our client intended to kill Jordan Neely. Of course, he (Penny) did not, but they have to prove criminal recklessness and criminal negligence.”
“The prosecution is going to have to prove, not only that our client Danny Penny caused Mr. Neely’s death, but that he foresaw the risk of death and consciously disregarded it – realized, ‘I may be about to kill this guy, I’m not intending to do it, but I really don’t care if I do,’” the attorney added.

Opening Statements Set To Begin In Daniel Penny Trial Over Subway Death

Courts

New York

Subway

Despite the fact that roughly 200 people have been killed in New York City in the last five years while jaywalking, the city has now legalized jaywalking — outlawed since 1958 — with supporters claiming the laws against jaywalking were racist.
The city council passed a bill last month permitting jaywalking. Democratic Mayor Eric Adams never vetoed the bill, and it became law and will go into effect in roughly 120 days. Prior to the law being abolished, a violation could cost as much as $300, The New York Times <a href="//A0EB2296-DF3E-4D30-AFC8-07439AE150CB/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>, adding, “Jaywalking laws, historically used to target Black and Latino residents, were not evenly enforced in New York, and the Council bill was primarily a racial justice measure.”
Brooklyn Councilwoman Mercedes Narcisse, who introduced the bill, <a href="//A0EB2296-DF3E-4D30-AFC8-07439AE150CB/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “Let’s be real, every New Yorker jaywalks. People are simply trying to get where they need to go. Laws that penalize common behaviors for everyday movement shouldn’t exist, especially when they unfairly impact communities of color.”
“We’re seeing discriminatory enforcement of this, but the other thing is that it’s not keeping us any safer,” <a href="//A0EB2296-DF3E-4D30-AFC8-07439AE150CB/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Democrat Councilwoman Tiffany Cabán, a sponsor of the bill.
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“Jaywalking is not genuinely associated with traffic safety and instead is often used as a pretext to stop black and brown individuals,” Mike McGinn, executive director of America Walks, <a href="https://www.reckon.news/news/2024/05/nypd-disproportionately-cited-people-of-color-for-jaywalking-in-2023-mirroring-racist-enforcement-nationwide.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>.
“Decriminalizing jaywalking in New York City is long overdue and eradicates a mechanism that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) has, for decades, employed as a pretext to stop, question, and frisk New Yorkers, especially those from communities of color,” the Legal Aid Society <a href="https://legalaidnyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Statement-in-Response-to-Legislation-Decriminalizing-Jaywalking-Becoming-Law-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a>.
“It’s part of a broader decriminalization of everything,” Joseph Borelli, the Republican Minority Leader of the NY City Council, stated. Fellow GOP Councilwoman Vickie Paladino echoed that the move would “promote chaos and make streets far more dangerous.” GOP Councilwoman Joann Ariola of Queens said, “How can anyone imagine this is a good idea considering the [amount] of pedestrian deaths we continue to have each year? It would only put more pedestrians in danger.”

man texting and jaywalking accident hand

NYC Legalizes Jaywalking. Supporters Complain Laws Against It Had Racial Implications.

General

Racism

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comedian">So-called comedians</a> Will Ferrell and Billy Eichner campaigned for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris">Kamala Harris</a> by hitting the streets as “Loud White Men for Kamala,” asking random people in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city">New York City</a> questions like whether they would have sex with a Trump supporter.
Eichner shared a clip of the new campaign on his X page. “BILLY ON THE STREET IS BACK with WILL FERRELL!!! LOUD WHITE MEN FOR KAMALA!!! LET’S GO!!!!!!!” he wrote in the caption. 
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BILLY ON THE STREET IS BACK with WILL FERRELL!!! LOUD WHITE MEN FOR KAMALA!!! LET’S GO!!!!!!! <a href="https://t.co/KPfEcr5aSZ">https://t.co/KPfEcr5aSZ</a> <a href="https://t.co/OiyDsqLBC1">pic.twitter.com/OiyDsqLBC1</a>
&mdash; billy eichner (@billyeichner) <a href="https://twitter.com/billyeichner/status/1851310072120381886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The included video showed the two comedians approaching men and women on the street, asking various questions such as, “Who are you voting for?” When one person says he voted for Harris via mail in ballot, Eichner shouts, “Yeah, mail in ballot, b***!”
He approaches a woman and says, “Miss, for a dollar, would you have sex with a Trump voter?” 
She responds, “No!” and makes a disgusted face.
<a href="https://www.amiracist.com/?_gl=1*jtghwp*_gcl_au*ODQ1NjYzNTg2LjE3Mjg5MDk3OTE.*_ga*MTc2NzM0NDQ2NS4xNzI4OTA5Nzkx*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTczMDEyMDgwOS40OS4xLjE3MzAxMjA4MzkuMzAuMC4w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+</a>
“Thank you,” Eichner says.
He asks another woman the same question, prompting her to reply, “Blah.” 
At another point, Eichner jokes that if Harris wins, she would “make Buddy the Elf Secretary of Christmas,” referencing Ferrell’s leading role in the 2003 comedy “Elf.”
Social media reactions to the bit pointed out that the whole thing appeared forced and potentially staged.
“I&#8217;m embarrassed I even watched this,” one response <a href="https://x.com/MrReaganUSA/status/1851404226813182184">said</a>. 
“Every male in the video looks EXACTLY like I thought they would. almost (sic) like they were typecast actors,” another viewer <a href="https://x.com/realTimothyC/status/1851333461988061238">observed</a>.
“Congratulations on turning more people off than you convinced,” another comment <a href="https://x.com/politicalpapaa/status/1851335677876568181">said</a>. 
“One of the cringiest things I’ve ever watched,” another person agreed.
The “Anchorman” star released another <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo7KwWIg-7o">video</a> campaigning for Harris earlier this week, saying, “This election is going to be one of the closest in history. Your vote will make the difference.”
“Last time, only a few thousand votes kept Trump out of office. And this time, we will hold you personally responsible, Gary,” Ferrell continues, referencing a character he played on “Saturday Night Live.

Eichner and Ferrell

Will Ferrell And Billy Eichner Fall Flat In ‘Loud White Men For Kamala’ Bit

Will Ferrell And Billy Eichner Fall Flat In 'Loud White Men For Kamala' Bit

2024 Elections

comedian

Donald Trump

Elections

Kamala Harris

Politics

Will Ferrell

We are now one week and one day away from the biggest election of our lifetime, the 2024 election, and Donald Trump is not only closing fast, he is closing big.
On Sunday night, Donald Trump held a rally at Madison Square Garden. He packed the house. 20,000 people showed up. There were tens of thousands of people in the streets outside. No real signs of protest.
If you look at the behavior of the two campaigns, it is pretty clear whom both campaigns think is ahead. Donald Trump believes he&#8217;s ahead. Kamala Harris seems to believe that Trump is ahead — and you can tell because there’s a desperation play by the Kamala Harris campaign and her surrogates to call Trump Hitler.
Tim Walz suggested that the Madison Square Garden rally was just like a Hitler rally. The inestimably stupid Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-trump-hate-rally-was-about-inciting-violence-against-latinos-blacks-childless-voters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the same thing. Harris herself did a little speech from the vice presidential residence likening Trump to Hitler.
That&#8217;s Harris’ closing pitch. It takes a lot of gall to see just what happened at Madison Square Garden on Sunday as some sort of Nazi rally.
There were Israeli flags hanging from the rafters. There were tons of Orthodox Jews who showed up — and Orthodox Jews are going to vote for Donald Trump virtually unanimously.
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Everybody thinks that what Trump does at these rallies is very corny because he has Lee Greenwood singing &#8220;God Bless the U.S.A.,&#8221; because there are lots of American flags and lots of MAGA hats. It looks like a family reunion. That is the appeal.
And that appeal can&#8217;t be understood by the more sophisticated set, but it is a very real appeal nonetheless.
Trump was in a very good mood, joking about Harris being lost when her teleprompter broke. Last Friday, he went on Joe Rogan’s show, and he was great. He feels like he’s winning.
The other evidence that Trump is winning is not just that he is happy and that the person campaigning happy tends to be the person who&#8217;s ahead, it’s also that Kamala Harris is clearly flailing.
Harris was asked over the weekend by a reporter about the internal polling from her campaign and she answered that her internal polling was her &#8220;instinct,&#8221; adding,  “I let the campaign people deal with all that other stuff.&#8221; 

But here’s the kicker: she doesn&#8217;t have any political instincts. She doesn&#8217;t have positions. Everything she does is poll-tested. Everything that she&#8217;s doing right now is a trial balloon, which she then immediately shoots down if it doesn&#8217;t get the response that she wants.
<h3><a href="https://www.amiracist.com/?_gl=1*jtghwp*_gcl_au*ODQ1NjYzNTg2LjE3Mjg5MDk3OTE.*_ga*MTc2NzM0NDQ2NS4xNzI4OTA5Nzkx*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTczMDEyMDgwOS40OS4xLjE3MzAxMjA4MzkuMzAuMC4w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MATT WALSH&#8217;S &#8216;AM I RACIST?&#8217; NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+</a></h3>
Everything seems to be failing for her. She held a rally over the weekend and Beyoncé was supposed to show up. Tons of people showed up because they figured Beyoncé would perform and they would get a free Beyoncé concert.
One problem: the packed crowd showed up and so did Beyoncé, who spoke for a couple of minutes, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beyonce-fans-are-annoyed-she-didnt-perform-at-kamalas-rally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">waved to the crowd and left</a>.
Nothing is working for Harris right now.
And you can tell the preemptive sense of panic has totally set in among Democrats in a major way.

Donald Trump Holds Campaign Rally At Madison Square Garden In NYC

Trump Rocks Madison Square Garden, Kamala Panics

2024 Election

Ben Shapiro

Madison Square Garden

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed during an interview on Monday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump&#8217;s rally in New York City over the weekend was a &#8220;hate rally&#8221; that was about &#8220;inciting violence&#8221; against minorities.
Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks during an appearance on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; while talking about the event at Madison Square Garden.
&#8220;This was a hate rally,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;This was not just a presidential rally. This was also not just a campaign rally. I think it&#8217;s very important for people to understand that these are mini January 6 rallies. These are mini &#8216;Stop The Steal&#8217; rallies.&#8221;
She claimed that the rally was meant to &#8220;prime an electorate&#8221; to reject the results of the election if Trump does not win.
&#8220;That&#8217;s what they&#8217;re doing when they are inciting violence and hatred against Latinos, against black Americans, against Americans who don&#8217;t have children,&#8221; she claimed.
She said that when looking at Trump&#8217;s rally over the weekend, Americans needed to &#8220;connect the dots&#8221; to the January 6 riot nearly a full four years ago.
<a href="https://www.amiracist.com/?_gl=1*jtghwp*_gcl_au*ODQ1NjYzNTg2LjE3Mjg5MDk3OTE.*_ga*MTc2NzM0NDQ2NS4xNzI4OTA5Nzkx*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTczMDEyMDgwOS40OS4xLjE3MzAxMjA4MzkuMzAuMC4w">MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+</a>
AOC also suggested that Trump was behind a manipulated video that was posted on social media showing someone ripping up ballots.
The FBI said Russia was behind the video, not a political campaign.
WATCH:
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NEW: MSNBC enlists AOC to desperately demagogue and propagandize the Trump MSG event:
&#8220;This was a HATE rally.&#8221;
“They are inciting violence and hatred against Latinos, against black Americans&#8230;the only reason that their rhetoric has gotten this far is precisely because they are… <a href="https://t.co/VHrIPp2gIS">pic.twitter.com/VHrIPp2gIS</a>
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1850874140611215639?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2024</a></blockquote>

THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT

AOC: Trump ‘Hate Rally’ Was About ‘Inciting Violence’ Against Latinos, Blacks, Childless Voters

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Congress

Trump Rallies

During his Madison Square Garden rally in New York City on Sunday, former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> said he was running against &#8220;something far bigger&#8221; than Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>.
Trump, who has a <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slight edge</a> over Harris in national and top battleground state polls with just over a week until Election Day, talked about looking past the candidate and taking on what he described as the &#8220;radical Left machine&#8221; and the policy agency it wants to impress upon the U.S.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: &quot;We are not just running against Kamala &#8212; She means nothing. She is purely a vessel &#8212; We are running against something far bigger than Joe or Kamala and more powerful than them, which is a massive, vicious, crooked, radical left machine that runs today’s… <a href="https://t.co/qBysdNKtSF">pic.twitter.com/qBysdNKtSF</a>
&mdash; Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1850688463026172088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We are just not running against Kamala — I think a lot of our politicians here tonight know this. She means nothing. She is purely a vessel, that&#8217;s all she is,&#8221; Trump said, adding later: &#8220;We are running against something far bigger than Joe or Kamala and far more powerful than them, which is a massive, vicious, crooked, radical Left machine that runs today’s Democrat Party.&#8221;
That&#8217;s not to say Trump did not knock Harris, the individual. During his remarks in the big Apple, Trump mocked Harris over her serving up <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-obama-strategist-kamala-cant-relate-to-people-goes-to-word-salad-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">word salads</a>, not being more forthcoming about President&#8217;s Joe Biden&#8217;s health before he dropped out of the 2024 race this summer, and more. He quipped, &#8220;On issue after issue, Kamala broke it, but I will fix it,&#8221; getting cheers from the crowd.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: On issue after issue, KAMALA BROKE IT—I WILL FIX IT. <a href="https://t.co/DbyhTSCFIF">pic.twitter.com/DbyhTSCFIF</a>
&mdash; Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1850688266791489804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Still, Trump&#8217;s larger point in his speech was that Biden and Harris are &#8220;perfect vessels because they&#8217;ll never give them a hard time. He explained further, &#8220;They&#8217;ll do whatever they want. I know many of them. It&#8217;s just an amorphous group of people. But they&#8217;re smart and they&#8217;re vicious, and we have to defeat them. And when I say the &#8216;enemy from within,&#8217; the other side go crazy.&#8221;
Trump, who has long decried the &#8220;deep state&#8221; of bureaucrats and others frustrating his efforts at governance, said leftists &#8220;are doing such harm to our country with their open border policies, record-setting inflation, &#8216;Green New Scam,&#8217; and everything else they are doing. But we&#8217;re not going to let it happen any longer. We&#8217;re going to have the biggest victory in the history of our country on November 5 &#8230; We&#8217;re going to make America great again.&#8221;

Trump At MSG Says He’s Running Against ‘Something Far Bigger’ Than Kamala

Deep State

At former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-fans-gather-early-for-madison-square-garden-rally-speaker-lineup-released" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rally at Madison Square Garden</a> in New York City on Sunday, WWE legend Hulk Hogan put the smack down on those comparing the event to a <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/americans-hold-nazi-rally-in-madison-square-garden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pro-Nazi gathering</a> that took place at the same venue in 1939.
Hogan, who was born Terry Gene Bollea, took the stage with an American flag and music rocking. He tore off a shirt like he did in his wrestling career and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wwe-legend-hulk-hogan-rocks-the-rnc-as-he-celebrates-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for the Republican National Convention</a> this summer. Underneath, Hogan had on a shirt bearing the names of Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), with the sleeves cut off.
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Hulk Hogan at Trump&#39;s MSG rally: &quot;I don&#39;t see no stinkin&#39; Nazis in here. I don&#39;t see no stinkin&#39; domestic terrorists in here. The only thing I see in here are a bunch of hard-working men and women that are real Americans, brother.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/ZVdvtVZS5q">pic.twitter.com/ZVdvtVZS5q</a>
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&#8220;Welcome to the house that Hulkamania built,&#8221; Hogan said, after a few moments of hyping up the crowd. &#8220;You know something? Usually, when I&#8217;m in Madison Square Garden, I&#8217;m body slamming giants, I&#8217;m winning world heavyweight titles, and I&#8217;m cracking people over the heads with steel chairs. And the energy in Madison Square Garden is off the Richter Scale.&#8221;
Fondly addressing the &#8220;Trumpomaniacs&#8221; in the room, Hogan declared how on Sunday, the &#8220;energy in here is something like I&#8217;ve never felt. The energy of all these Trumpomaniacs is the most powerful force in the universe and today this is Donald Trump&#8217;s house, brother!&#8221;
Then Hogan grappled with the Nazi comparison, which has been made by the likes of <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4956168-walz-trump-madison-square-garden-rally/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnesota Governor Tim Walz</a>, who is the Democratic Party&#8217;s vice presidential nominee, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/hillary-clinton-accuses-trump-reenacting-infamous-nazi-rally-madison-square-garden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">and Hillary Clinton</a>.
&#8220;You know something, Trumpomaniacs, I don&#8217;t see no stinkin&#8217; Nazis in here. I don&#8217;t see no stinkin&#8217; domestic terrorists in here,&#8221; Hogan said, before he pointed to the crowd. &#8220;The only thing I see in here are a bunch of hard-working men and women that are real Americans, brother.&#8221;
After taking swipes at Trump&#8217;s 2024 rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, Hogan said the &#8220;energy&#8221; in the building gave him the answer to the question his famous saying, &#8220;Whatcha gonna do?&#8221;: &#8220;The answer is vote for Trump!&#8221; He proceed to get the crowd to similarly answer the same question when it came to tackling issues such as inflation and border security.
Hogan was one of dozens of people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-fans-gather-early-for-madison-square-garden-rally-speaker-lineup-released" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lined up to speak</a> at the Madison Square Garden rally. A photo shared on X by Trump&#8217;s adviser Dan Scavino Jr. showed Trump and Hogan backstage, gleefully locked in an arm-wrestling pose.
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Happening Now, backstage at Madison Square Garden. 45–47 getting ready! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpRally?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpRally</a> <a href="https://t.co/m8c66is9ZY">pic.twitter.com/m8c66is9ZY</a>
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The Republican National Convention in mid-July took place soon after Trump survived an assassination attempt in a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally. When he spoke at that event, Hogan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wwe-legend-hulk-hogan-rocks-the-rnc-as-he-celebrates-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brought down the house</a>.
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I’ve seen it all now 😂<a href="https://twitter.com/HulkHogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HulkHogan</a> <a href="https://t.co/vy6ei4tAMO">pic.twitter.com/vy6ei4tAMO</a>
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&#8220;When I think about what happened last week, when they took a shot at my hero and they tried to kill the next president of the United States, enough was enough,&#8221; Hogan said, ripping his shirt off. &#8220;And I said, &#8216;Let Trumpomania run wild, brother! Let Trumpomania rule again. Let Trumpomania make America great again!'&#8221;

Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan Body Slams Nazi Comparison At Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally

The crowd at former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday got energized on Sunday when <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vivek Ramaswamy</a> made the striking assertion that deep blue New York has become a &#8220;swing state.&#8221;
A biotech entrepreneur who ran in the GOP primaries before dropping out and endorsing Trump, Ramaswamy said the &#8220;energy&#8221; in the arena did not feel like &#8220;second place energy&#8221; to him.
Ramaswamy then said a billionaire friend of his had texted him in the morning and asked, &#8216;Why the hell are you guys wasting your time in New York City instead of going to a swing state?'&#8221; According to Ramaswamy, he told this person, &#8220;&#8216;Welcome to 2024. New York is a swing state.&#8221;
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Vivek Ramaswamy <a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VivekGRamaswamy</a>: “This does NOT feel like second place energy in here tonight!” <a href="https://t.co/SUJdlWZMVt">pic.twitter.com/SUJdlWZMVt</a>
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While the line earned a loud round of cheers from the audience, it would be quite the undertaking for Trump to actually make New York a competitive race.
FiveThirtyEight&#8217;s poll tracker shows Trump <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/new-york/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trailing</a> Vice President Kamala Harris by 14.5 points. That&#8217;s about half the margin by which President Joe Biden led Trump around this time in the 2020 cycle.
Trump, a real estate tycoon who was born in New York City, spent a sizable chunk of time in the Big Apple in recent years for a slew of court battles, making additional <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/donald-trump-visits-nyc-construction-site/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stops</a> to boost his <a href="https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/04/16/trump-bodega-new-york-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaign</a> along the way.
His attorney and adviser, Alina Habba, spoke <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-won-hearts-and-minds-during-nyc-court-battles-habba-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">about the “lawfare”</a> overshadowing Trump&#8217;s 2024 presidential campaign during her remarks at the Madison Square Garden on Sunday.
“They thought they could take the greatest president down through lawfare, with lawsuits, fake charges, raids, and endless investigations,” Habba said. “They thought they could crush the man who built this city’s skyline,” she added. “But they underestimated how hard Trump would fight!”
She also said: “They tried to keep President Trump and his campaign in courtrooms being persecuted. But, do you know what he did while he was in those New York courtrooms? He won the hearts and minds of the American people all from this city!”
Ramaswamy and Habba were two of dozens of people lined up to speak at the rally in Madison Square Garden. Trump is expected to deliver remarks, as is Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Trump’s running mate; tech billionaire Elon Musk; Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime Democrat who ran an independent campaign for president before joining forces with Trump; Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii who recently joined the Republican Party; and many others.

Vivek Ramaswamy

Ramaswamy Thrills Madison Square Garden Rally Crowd With Bold Claim: New York Is A ‘Swing State’

At the former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trum</a>p&#8217;s rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, his attorney and adviser, Alina Habba, spoke about the &#8220;lawfare&#8221; overshadowing the 2024 campaign.
Habba, who walked onto the stage wearing a &#8220;MAGA&#8221; jacket to &#8220;trigger Hillary Clinton,&#8221; said the world first got to know the Republican candidate on courtroom steps as Trump faced various legal battles in New York City.
&#8220;They thought they could take the greatest president down through lawfare, with lawsuits, fake charges, raids, and endless investigations,&#8221; Habba said. &#8220;They thought they could crush the man who built this city&#8217;s skyline,&#8221; she added. &#8220;But they underestimated how hard Trump would fight!&#8221;
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Trump Senior Advisor <a href="https://twitter.com/AlinaHabba?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AlinaHabba</a>: “This is the party of strength, resilience, and a voice that echoes around the world. Our voices can not be silenced and this movement will not be stopped.” <a href="https://t.co/nqiSiH8Zvw">pic.twitter.com/nqiSiH8Zvw</a>
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Habba said the rally had &#8220;rattled some of my favorite swamp creatures,&#8221; whom she said were &#8220;scrambling and trying to call us Nazis and fascists.&#8221; She also said, &#8220;They are claiming we&#8217;re going to go after them and try to put them in jail. Well ain&#8217;t that rich?&#8221;
After calling out Trump&#8217;s 2024 rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, saying, &#8220;Kamala, you want to talk about a fascist — no one has ever voted for you to become the Democrat nominee,&#8221; Habba exclaimed, &#8220;They tried to keep President Trump and his campaign in courtrooms being persecuted. But, do you know what he did while he was in those New York courtrooms? He won the hearts and minds of the American people all from this city!&#8221;
She added, &#8220;You see the deep state, they underestimate how smart we are, and they want the American people to fall in like a bunch of sheep. You know what they don&#8217;t realize, New York? We&#8217;re going to be the ones herding sheep out of the White House on November 5. Because, Kamala Harris, you are getting evicted from my president&#8217;s house!&#8221;
Habba was one of dozens of people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-fans-gather-early-for-madison-square-garden-rally-speaker-lineup-released" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lined up to speak</a> at the rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Trump is expected to deliver remarks, as is Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Trump&#8217;s running mate; tech billionaire Elon Musk; Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime Democrat who ran an independent campaign for president before joining forces with Trump; Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-joins-the-republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently joined</a> the Republican Party; and many others.

Alina Habba

Trump Won ‘Hearts And Minds’ During NYC Court Battles, Habba Says

Fans of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> are showing up in force at Madison Square Garden ahead of the former president&#8217;s rally in the famed New York City arena on Sunday.
Trump is returning to New York, a blue state where he was born and became a real estate tycoon, during the final stretch of his 2024 White House campaign. Election Day is in less than two weeks. Polls indicate Trump has a <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slight advantage</a> over Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris.</a>
People were already <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSM3jx1TrBg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gathering</a> on Saturday outside the venue, where police <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak1r5-D4QxQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beefed up</a> security in anticipation of the event. By Sunday morning, a crowd of Trump supporters sporting &#8220;MAGA&#8221; gear and American flags <a href="https://x.com/TVNewsNow/status/1850496300791296015" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chanted</a> &#8220;USA&#8221; while a Fox News correspondent did a report at the scene, noting those individuals waiting in line were &#8220;hyped up&#8221; and from &#8220;all over the place.&#8221;
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Big crowds of Trump supporters are already queuing outside Madison Square Garden 10 hours before today’s big NY rally, reports Fox News’ <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexisMcAdamsTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AlexisMcAdamsTV</a> <a href="https://t.co/YMnBE5EvUQ">pic.twitter.com/YMnBE5EvUQ</a>
&mdash; TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) <a href="https://twitter.com/TVNewsNow/status/1850496300791296015?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Madison Square Garden, which is the home to the New York Knicks and New York Rangers sports teams, has a <a href="https://www.msg.com/venue-rentals-event-rentals/rent-madison-square-garden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">capacity</a> of 19,500 people. For the Trump rally, the doors are expected to open at noon ET and Trump&#8217;s remarks are scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. ET.
The Trump campaign released a list of guest speakers that includes Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Trump&#8217;s running mate; tech billionaire Elon Musk; Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime Democrat who ran an independent campaign for president before joining forces with Trump; and Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-joins-the-republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently joined</a> the Republican Party.
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Big crowds of Trump supporters are already queuing outside Madison Square Garden 10 hours before today’s big NY rally, reports Fox News’ <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexisMcAdamsTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AlexisMcAdamsTV</a> <a href="https://t.co/YMnBE5EvUQ">pic.twitter.com/YMnBE5EvUQ</a>
&mdash; TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) <a href="https://twitter.com/TVNewsNow/status/1850496300791296015?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Other expected guests include: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Republican National Committee Co-Chair and Trump&#8217;s daughter-in-law Lara Trump, Trump&#8217;s sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr., Trump senior advisors Dan Scavino and Stephen Miller, Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White, and journalist Tucker Carlson.
In addition, the list has: America First Policy Institute President and CEO Brooke Rollins, Witkoff Group founder Steve Witkoff, Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and Co-Chair of the Trump 2024 Transition Team Howard Lutnick, 10X CEO Grant Cardone, Sergio Gor of Right for America PAC, Death Row Records founder Michael Harris Jr., Moms for Liberty founder Tiffany Justice, singer Lee Greenwood, opera singer Christopher Macchio, singer Mary Millben, New York radio personality Sid Rosenberg, comedian Kill Tony, live painter Scott Lobaido, and David Rem, a childhood friend of former President Trump.
&#8220;The program includes political icons, celebrities, musical artists, and friends and family of President Trump who will all discuss how President Trump is the best choice to fix everything that Kamala Harris broke,&#8221; said a press release from Trump&#8217;s campaign. &#8220;This epic event, in the heart of President Trump&#8217;s home city, will be a showcase of the historic political movement that President Trump has built in the final days of the campaign.&#8221;
WATCH TRUMP&#8217;S RALLY HERE:
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Watch live as President Trump takes the stage at Madison Square Garden. Trump’s message resonates in a city feeling the weight of liberal policies—New Yorkers face skyrocketing costs, overwhelmed resources, and escalating crime under current leadership. <a href="https://t.co/qVZFCRfoeZ">https://t.co/qVZFCRfoeZ</a>
&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1850553040522076354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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