Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, compared former President Trump’s rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday to a pro-Nazi event in 1939.
“Donald Trump held a massive rally at Madison Square Garden. There are direct parallels to the mass rallies that took place at Madison Square Garden in the mid-1930s,” Walz said at an event in Henderson, Nevada.
The American Nazi Party held a rally at Madison Square Garden in February 1939, drawing 20,000 supporters to the iconic New York City landmark.
“And don’t think for a second that he doesn’t know exactly what he’s doing there,” Walz said.
Trump is holding an event at Madison Square Garden on Sunday with his running mate, Senator JD Vance (R-Ohio). Trump is from the Empire State, but Vice President Harris is ahead by 17.8 points in New York, according to an average poll from The Hill/Decision Desk HQ.
“So we are operating as if everything is at stake,” Walz said at an event in Nevada. Because it’s true,” Walz said. “And I’ve been saying for the past three months that there will be plenty of time to sleep when we’re dead. Now is not the time. Now is not the time.”
At a town hall earlier this week, CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked, “Is Trump a fascist?” and the vice president responded, “Yes.”
Retired Gen. John Kelly, who served as President Trump’s chief of staff, said in a recent interview with The Atlantic that the former president praised the loyalty of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s generals. Trump later hit back, calling Kelly a “low life” and a “completely corrupt person.”
New York Gov. Cathy Hochul (Democrat) said on MSNBC on Sunday that she sees President Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally as an example of him “waving the white flag of surrender.”
“He is returning to a city he knows well. He feels comfortable here. Maybe he wants to sleep in his own bed,” Hochul said.
The Hill reached out to the Trump campaign.
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