By james art Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz echoed Hillary Clinton’s attack that former President Donald Trump’s rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden mirrored a 1930s Nazi event.
Waltz compared Trump’s Sunday night rally to a 1939 “pro-American” rally held by German dictator Adolf Hitler at Madison Square Garden 85 years ago, before World War II.
“Donald Trump has this big rally at Madison Square Garden,” Walz said Sunday at a launch event in Las Vegas. “There is a direct parallel to a large rally that took place in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden. And don’t think that he doesn’t know for a second what exactly they are doing there. So, look, we said everybody’s working as if everything is on the line, because it is.”
Trump 2024 senior adviser Tim Murtaugh told “Fox & Friends First” on Monday that Waltz’s comment was “offensive” and that “they should be ashamed of themselves.”
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz speaks at a Native Americans for Harris-Waltz event at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
Clinton also made the comparison, but as Murtaugh noted, her own husband, former President Bill Clinton, accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992 at Madison Square Garden. The iconic venue, 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.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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“This is ridiculous. Here’s Kamala Harris right now defeating Donald Trump, which means she and her campaign are calling more than half the country a bunch of Nazis, and yet she wants to be their president,” Murtaugh said. “There was an Israeli flag flying in Madison Square Garden. President Trump was recently supported by imams in Detroit and we had a Holocaust survivor as a special guest at last night’s rally. And for Tim Waltz to come out and say that, it’s insulting, it’s belittling what actually happened in Europe at the hands of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, which killed 6 million Jews.”
Former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump wave at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“To downplay that in an attempt to score political points against your American opponent three quarters of a century later is terribly insulting,” he added. “It’s a dying campaign, it’s a struggling campaign and they’re throwing anything at the wall that’s going to stick. They should be ashamed of themselves.”
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Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden reportedly reached its maximum capacity of 19,500 people.
Donald Trump Jr. said nearly 200,000 people tried to attend. The last time a Republican presidential candidate won the popular vote in dark blue New York was in 1984 by Ronald Reagan.