Harris slams ‘nonsense’ at MSG Trump rally: ‘That’s why people are exhausted with him’
Vice President Harris on Monday said former President Trump’s rally a night earlier at Madison Square Garden in New York City, which was marked by racist and sexist comments from multiple speakers who took the stage, underscored why many Americans are “exhausted” by the GOP presidential nominee.
“What he did last night is not a discovery. It is just more of the same, and maybe more vivid than usual,” Harris told reporters before heading to campaign events in Michigan.
“Donald Trump spends full-time trying to have Americans point their finger at each other, fans the fuel of hate and division, and that’s why people are exhausted with him. … People are literally ready to turn the page. They’re tired of it,” she added.
She told reporters that celebrities including Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez and others had supported her even “before that nonsense last night at Madison Square Garden.”
Trump held a major rally Sunday at the iconic arena, kicking off the final full week of campaigning by trotting out a number of prominent allies in the heart of deeply Democratic Manhattan.
But several of the earlier speakers overshadowed the event with their incendiary rhetoric.
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who goes by Kill Tony, delivered a set that included racist attacks on Puerto Ricans.
Tucker Carlson mocked Harris’s racial identity.
Sid Rosenberg, a New York City radio host whose show Trump calls in to periodically, blasted Democrats in derogatory and explicit terms.
“She is some sick bastard, that Hillary Clinton. What a sick son of a b????,” he said of the former secretary of State and 2016 Democratic nominee. “The whole f???ing party. A bunch of degenerates.”
One speaker described Harris as “the devil” and “the antichrist.”
Trump, meanwhile, repeated his assertion that his political opponents are the “enemy from within” and disparaged reporters as the “enemy of the people.”
“Usually pre-game speeches matter little. Pretty remarkable Trump’s MSG warm up acts are all creating controversy and content that will hurt him,” senior Harris campaign aide David Plouffe posted on the social platform X. “And that’s before his Soviet style speech that will generate much material of concern to the remaining undecided voters.”
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