20,000 packed Madison Square Garden for Trump’s rally, while thousands more were turned away after waiting hours on lines that stretched for blocks around the arena.
Out on the street with the MAGAs waiting for hours as we inched toward Madison Square Garden (only to be turned away), I heard the emphatic belief that Trump would win by a landslide, and anything less was theft. There were remarks about 2020 being stolen but not letting that happen again, and “fake news” of anything that was vaguely negative about Trump. No mention of indictments, convictions, being called a fascist by his own chief of staff and generals. There were also vulgarities spewed against Harris.
Those who couldn’t get in were offered a chance to watch the rally on a jumbotron outside the arena.
Meanwhile hundreds of anti-Trump protesters, waving signs that said “No Dictators in the USA,” “Fascist,” “Unfit” and “We’ve Seen This Before” (a reference to the 1939 American Nazi rally held at MSG and the rise of Hitler and Fascism that led to World War II) lined the Post Office steps across 8th Avenue from the Garden.
