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Former President Donald Trump attends a rally in Coachella,
California, on October 12, 2024
Donald Trump is kicking off the final full week of the
presidential race Sunday with a rally at Madison Square Garden, betting on his
own showmanship as he seeks to fill the iconic venue and create a spectacle
that will reach television and phone screens in all seven battleground states.
The former president is returning to his hometown of New
York City – deep-blue turf that virtually no Republicans expect to win, but
where signs of discontent and state and local Democratic leadership struggles
could help endangered GOP incumbents hold House seats in the surrounding
suburbs.
It’s the latest in a line of Trump visits to blue states
that has also included a rally in California’s Coachella Valley this month, one
on Long Island in the summer and a recent stop for an economic forum in
Chicago.
At each stop, in dehumanizing terms, Trump is laying the
blame for crime and growing numbers of migrants at the feet of his Democratic
rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I will rescue every town across America that has been
invaded and conquered,” he said Thursday in Las Vegas.
The Madison Square Garden event follows a precedent set by
campaigns past. The venue, including its earlier locations, boasts an extensive
political history. It has hosted presidents such as Grover Cleveland, Herbert
Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and has welcomed both Republican and Democratic
national conventions – most recently the GOP confab in 2004. It was also
famously the site of John F. Kennedy’s birthday celebration in 1962, when
Marilyn Monroe performed her iconic serenade for the president.
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