Trump to rally at Madison Square Garden in New York; Harris heads to Philadelphia: Live election updates – The Independent

Donald Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller speaks at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

Miller is widely believed to be the architect of Trump’s immigration agenda.

Moments into his speech, he said illegal immigrants have destroyed American lives.

He then claimed that Democrats were trying to disenfranchise Americans by filing lawsuits and “defamation” against Donald Trump. Miller also repeated the lie that Democrats tried to assassinate Trump, going so far as to attribute both assassination attempts to Democrats.

“He fought for your children, for your wives, for your husbands, for everyone you love in the world,” Miller said.

He then insisted that “criminal migrants” and gangs “rape” children every day, before declaring that America is only for “Americans”.

Montana’s Senate race is increasingly dominated by talk of scandal as the election enters its final week and Democrats make their final push to defend a crucial seat.

Jon Tester and Tim Sheehy are separated by single digits in the only race in which a Republican challenger consistently leads a Democratic president in the Senate. Tester, who has represented the state since 2007, trailed his opponent by a significant margin for several months, even though The Hill/Emerson a poll released earlier this month showed that gap likely narrowing in his favor.

It’s a race that could decide which party controls the Senate next year.

Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump White House staffer who is supporting Kamala Harris for president, suggested Sunday that a racist joke made by podcaster Tony Hinchcliffe at the start of Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden probably won’t sit well with half of Pennsylvania on the battlefield – one million residents of Puerto Rico.

Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico, which is part of America, “a floating island of trash in the ocean.”

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani — fresh off a judge’s decision to transfer his property to the Georgia election workers he defamed — took the stage at Madison Square Garden for Donald Trump’s rally.

He began with the impression that Pope John Paul II called New York great.

Within a minute of being on stage, he mentioned 9/11 and the New York Yankees.

Giuliani confused the reference to East Palestine, Ohio by calling it “New Palestine” and referring to “subway derailment.” East Palestine fell victim to the Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals that derailed and polluted the city. There is no subway in East Palestine.

The former mayor then discussed 9/11 again and likened it to the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel. He said he was “on Israel’s side” and claimed that Palestinians were trained from the age of 2 to kill Americans.

At one point, Giuliani said, “I’m not going to do a conspiracy, but I’m not going to do a conspiracy,” then he promptly floated the baseless conspiracy theory that Democrats were behind the assassination attempt on Trump, saying they “better not again.”

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Church of Christian Compassion during a campaign visit to Philadelphia on Sunday morning.

“Here in Pennsylvania, right now, each of us has an opportunity to make a difference. Because at this point we are really facing a real question. What kind of country do we want to live in,” she said. “The great thing about living in a democracy is that we the people have the choice to answer that question. So let us answer not only with our words but also with our deeds.”

Harris has spent several days campaigning in the Delaware Valley over the past week.

She urged churchgoers to go vote.

“In just nine days, we have the power to decide the fate of our nation for generations to come,” she said.

Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alina Haba, speaks at his rally in Madison Square Garden. She came out with a Ludacris song.

She, like every other speaker so far, attacked Hillary Clinton for calling his rally a “Nazi rally” and pandering to the crowd by chanting “fight, fight, fight.”

Haba accused Democrats of dealing with “the law” and insisted that the lawsuits aimed at investigating Trump’s alleged crimes are not just coming from Trump Democrats, but are coming for “all of us.”

Most voters – 62 percent – ​​also believe the government is beset by corruption and works primarily for itself or for the benefit of elites.

The first speaker at Donald Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden is a comedian named Tony Hinchcliffe from the Kill Tony Podcast.

He started his set with a shilling for Mike Lindell’s MyPillow pillows and told the crowd he bought four of them.

He called Puerto Rico – which is part of the US and Puerto Ricans are Americans – a “floating pile of garbage in the middle of the ocean” and said Latin Americans “like to make babies” and don’t “get out” but “go in like they did with our country”.

Earlier on set, he admitted that early in his career he was forced to sleep in a car outside the Comedy Store in LA.