Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, criticized Hillary Clinton for saying former President Donald Trump’s rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden was a reflection of Nazi events in the 1930s. repeated attacks.
Walz compared Trump’s rally Sunday night to the “pro-American” rally German dictator Adolf Hitler held at Madison Square Garden 85 years ago, in 1939, before World War II.
“Donald Trump is trying to have this huge rally at Madison Square Garden,” Walz said Sunday at the Canvas kickoff event in Las Vegas. “There are direct parallels to the mass gatherings that happened at Madison Square Garden in the mid-1930s. And I don’t think for one second he doesn’t know exactly what they’re doing there. So look, we said, ‘Everyone is running like everything is on the line.
Trump 2024 senior adviser Tim Murtaugh told “Fox & Friends First” on Monday that Walz’s comments were “offensive” and “he should be ashamed.”
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Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz speaks at the “Harris Walz for Native Americans” event at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Sunday, October 27, 2024. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal, via AP)
Clinton also drew comparisons, but as Murtaugh pointed out, her own husband, former President Bill Clinton, accepted the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination at Madison Square Garden. The iconic venue, most recently known for Billy Joel concerts, New York Knicks basketball and New York Rangers hockey, has hosted four Democratic conventions and one Republican convention.
Then-presidential candidate Jimmy Carter accepted the Democratic nomination at Madison Square Garden in 1980. Then-President George W. Bush accepted the Republican nomination at the same venue in 2004.
Former Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, October 27, 2024 in New York City. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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“It’s ridiculous. Here we have Kamala Harris, who Donald Trump is currently losing. I mean, she and her campaign are calling over half the country a bunch of Nazis, and yet she wants to be president of That means we’re doing well,” Murtaugh said. “The Israeli flag was flying in Madison Square Garden. President Trump recently received support from the imams of Detroit and had a Holocaust survivor as a special guest at last night’s rally. And Tim Walz… He came out and said, “It’s offensive and it trivializes what actually happened in Europe at the hands of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, which killed six million Jews.”
Former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump wave during a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, October 27, 2024 in New York City. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“A quarter of a century later, it’s deeply offensive to downplay it by trying to score political points against America’s adversaries,” he added. “This is a dying campaign, a hard-fought campaign, and they’re throwing everything at the wall they’re sticking to. They should be ashamed of themselves.”
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Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden reportedly had a maximum capacity of 19,500 people.
Donald Trump Jr. said nearly 200,000 people tried to participate. The last time a Republican presidential candidate won the popular vote in deep blue New York was President Ronald Reagan in 1984.
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