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Trump is preparing for a massive campaign rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden in New York City
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Trump is preparing for a massive campaign rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden in New York City

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Former President Donald Trump will hold a major campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday, just nine days before voters cast their ballots.

The event, which was first come, first served, sold out within hours of being announced.

The 19,500-seat venue is home to the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers.

The Trump campaign says the program will include political icons, celebrities, musical artists and friends and family of former President Trump, all of whom will discuss how he is “the best choice to fix everything Kamala Harris broke.”

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“This epic event, in the heart of President Trump’s hometown, will be a showcase of the historic political movement President Trump built in the final days of the campaign,” the campaign said in a press release.

Elon Musk and Dana White, CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), will attend the rally on Sunday.

Musk has already gone on the campaign trail for Trump and delivered a memorable speech Butler, Paearlier this month, when the former president returned to the same spot where an assassination attempt was made on his life on July 13.

White, who has been a close friend of Trump for years and played a role in reviving the mixed martial arts business in the early 2000s, introduced the former president at this year’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and told the crowd, the stakes have never been higher.

Other notable attendees this Sunday include former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, political commentator Tucker Carlson and former Democratic presidential candidate turned Republican Tulsi Gabbard.

Notable names from the political world include Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance, Speaker Mike Johnson, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla.

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Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump and the former president’s sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., will also attend.

From the music world, Death Row Records founder Michael Harris Jr. appear, as do singer Lee Greenwood and opera singer Christopher Macchio.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Uniondale, New York

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Uniondale, New York, on Wednesday, September 18, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)

The Garden hosted the Republican National Convention (RNC) in 2004 and the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in 1924, 1976, 1980 and 1992.

Then-President Ronald Reagan was the last Republican to defeat New York in a race for the White House during his 1984 re-election bid.

“We play for New Jersey. We are playing for Virginia,” Trump said at a rally earlier this month, before adding that he also plans to compete in Minnesota and New Mexico.

Earlier this year, during a campaign stop at an upper Manhattan bodega, Trump said he would “fix New York.”

“We’re coming in – number one, you’ve got to stop crime, and we’re going to let the police do their job. They must regain their authority. They need to be able to do their job,” Trump said. ‘And we’re going to New York. We play a big role for New York and other cities as well. But this city, I love this city.”

Madison Square Garden

An aerial view of Madison Square Garden and the skylight at Moynihan Station on September 19, 2020 in New York City. (C. Taylor Crothers/Getty Images)

This will be Trump’s second major rally in New York state.

Trump held a rally last month at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, Long Island. More than 60,000 tickets were requested, far exceeding the capacity of 16,000 seats. Thousands of supporters who were not allowed into the venue watched him speak on large screens outside.

Trump rally on Long Island

Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, speaks during a campaign rally at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on September 18, 2024 in Uniondale, New York. (Getty Images)

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Trump also held a rally in the Bronx this summer at Crotona Park, where 3,500 people were able to receive permits. The New York Post reported that the Bronx rally drew as many as 10,000 supporters.

Meanwhile, more than 20,000 people attended his second meeting this weekend in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Admission to Madison Square Garden

Admission to Madison Square Garden. (Joan Slatkin/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The campaign also said they saw more than 100,000 people at the former president’s rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, in May.

Trump previously said New York “has gotten so bad in the last three, four years.”

“And we’re going to put New York on the right path. So if we run for president, we’ll make a big splash in New York – we could win New York,” Trump said.

Trump pumps his fist during the rally in Uniondale, NY

Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, raises his fist as he leaves a campaign event at the Nassau Coliseum on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 in Uniondale, New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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While deep-blue New York is unlikely to turn red in the race for the White House, another rally in the state could help Republicans hold on to their majority in the House of Representatives in the November elections.

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