By james art Former President Donald Trump will hold a massive campaign rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday – just nine days before voters go to the polls.
The first-come, first-served event sold out within hours of being announced.
The 19,500-seat arena is home to the New York Knicks and New York Rangers.
The Trump campaign says the program features political icons, celebrities, music artists and friends and family of former President Trump, who will all discuss how he is “the best choice to fix everything that Kamala Harris broke.”
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“This epic event, in the heart of President Trump’s hometown, will be a showcase for the historic political movement that President Trump has built in the final days of the campaign,” the campaign said in a press release.
Elon Musk and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO Dana White will attend Sunday’s rally.
Musk has already entered the Trump campaign, giving a memorable speech Butler, Pennsylvaniaearlier this month when the former president returned to the same location where an assassination attempt was made against him on July 13.
White, who has been a close friend of Trump for years and played a role in his recovery from the mixed martial arts company in the early 2000s, introduced the former president at this year’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, telling crowd the stakes have never been higher.
Other notable attendees this Sunday include former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former New York City 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 JD Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Rep. Elise Stefanik, RN.Y., and Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla.
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Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, as well as the former president’s sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., will also be in attendance.
From the music world, Death Row Records founder Michael Harris Jr. will appear, as will singer Lee Greenwood and opera singer Christopher Macchio.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Uniondale, New York, on Wednesday, Sept. 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, in his 1984 re-election, was the last Republican to carry New York in the race for the White House.
“We’re making a play for New Jersey. We’re making a play for Virginia,” Trump said at a rally earlier this month, before adding that he was also looking to compete in Minnesota and New Mexico.
Earlier this year, during a campaign stop at a bodega in Upper Manhattan, Trump said he would “make New York stand up.”
“We’re going to step in — number one, you’ve got to stop crime and we’re going to let the police do their job. Their authority must be restored. They should be able to do their jobs,” Trump said. “And we’re going to come to New York. We’re making a big play for New York, other cities too. But this city, I love this city.”
Aerial view of Madison Square Garden and Moynihan Station Skylight 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 at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, Long Island, last month. More than 60,000 tickets were claimed, far exceeding the hall’s capacity of 16,000 seats. Thousands of supporters, who were not allowed inside the venue, watched him speak on large screens outside.
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 over the summer in Crotona Park, for which he had a permit for 3,500 people. 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 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, over the weekend.
Entrance 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 over the last three years, four years.”
“And we’re going to fix New York. So by running for president, we’re putting a big shot in New York — we can win New York,” Trump said.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump raises his fist as he leaves his campaign trail at 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 gathering in the state could help Republicans fall on the ballot as they try to hold on to their House majority in November’s elections.
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