Trump peddles lies and bashes Harris to thousands of supporters at surreal MSG rally: Election live updates

Puerto Rican superstar rapper Bad Bunny posted his support for Kamala Harris on Sunday, sharing several videos featuring the vice president on his Instagram feed.

He made his appeal to Puerto Rican voters writing that he will “never forget what Donald Trump did and what he did not do when Puerto Rico needed a caring and a competent leader.”

Earlier on Sunday, podcaster Tony Hinchcliffe opened Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, and made a comment in which he compared Puerto Rico to a “floating island of garbage.” He also made vulagr and racist remarks about the broader Latino community in the US.

Governor Tim Walz and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez played Madden NFL 25 on Sunday and discussed policy during a Twitch livestream.

During their discussion, Walz asked Ocasio-Cortez about her stance on the filibuster in the Senate.

“I don’t know where you stand, but I’m going to guess you and I are probably the same on the filibuster,” Walz asked Ocasio-Cortez.

“Oh yeah, we have got to get rid of that thing,” she replied.

Donald Trump Jr followed his brother Eric to the stage at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally.

He called his father the “king of New York,” and said he would “reclaim the city that he built.”

Trump Jr expressed skepticism that the daughter of a “Marxist professor” — Kamala Harris — would govern as a “moderate.”

He boasted about his father’s term in office, bragging on the economy and the fact that Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine. He then asked why Harris hadn’t done more to fix the US while she was in office, despite it being well understood — including by Trump himself — that vice presidents do not possess the power to unilaterally make sweeping legislative changes.

Trump Jr then boasted about his father being a “bada**,” for getting up after he was “shot in the face.”

The former president’s ear was grazed.

Trump Jr then hinted at the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, suggesting that Democrats were “replacing” American voters with voters who would be more supportive. The Great Replacement conspiracy suggests that Democrats are allowing illegal immigrants into the country with the expectation that they will vote for them in elections, with the idea being that “real” Americans — a dogwhistle for white conservatives — will be drowned out as a powerful voting demographic.

Conjuring images of Gob Bluth’s oft-failed “illusions,” Donald Trump’s son Eric and his wife Lara arrived at the former president’s rally walking out to “The Final Countdown.”

He claimed that Democrats tried to take away Trump’s free speech when he was banned on social media sites — a decision Democrats had no hand in — and that they enagaged in “lawfare” to try to throw his father in prison.

The younger Trump managed some restraint, however — he said that “someone,” and not explicitly Democrats, tried to kill his father earlier this year. Many of the other speakers on Sunday did not make that distinction.

Eric said that his father would not only “make America great again, he’s going to make New York City great again.”

“The best days of this nation are ahead of us,” he said.

Lara, who serves as the co-chair of the RNC, then took the podium.

She played to the crowd, calling New York City the “greatest city,” and said that while “New York made Donald Trump,” that “Donald Trump made New York City.”

Lara then bragged on Trump’s alleged “toughness,” praising his mugshot as the “greatest mugshot in the history of the world” and insisted that it was New York City that made him tough.

JD Vance, along with nearly all of the speakers at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, suggested that Democrats were behind the two atttempted assassinations that targeted the former president earlier this year.

There is zero evidence suggesting Democrats were behind those assassination attempts. He is lying to voters.

Ohio Senator JD Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, boosted him on Sunday, despite previously worrying the former president might become “America’s Hitler.”

Vance said he “felt bad” for Governor Tim Walz, and asked the crowd to “spare a prayer” for him because he has the “hardest job in American politics.”

His point was interrupted by a “Tampon Tim” chant from the crowd.

Vance continued, saying Walz has to “convince the American people that Kamala Harris is going to fix” the “problems” she and Biden allegedly caused over the last four years.

The senator said his “favorite” Harris moment is when she refers to growing up in a “middle class family,” insisting that she rests on her past to dodge questions. He suggested Harris never actually worked at a McDonald’s, and claimed Trump might have worked at a McDonald’s longer than she had. That quip was a reference to a staged appearance by Trump cooking fries at a McDonald’s restaurant.

Dr Phil McGraw, the iconic TV psychologist, boosted Donald Trump at his rally on Sunday.

He said the former president was “tough as nails” and then lamented, what he claims, is a loss of free speech in the US.

Dr Phil then spoke on bullying, likening Republican voters to the victims of schoolyard bullying at the hands of Democrats.

He encouraged people not to be a “bystander” to “bullying,” which he likened to people “calling [Republican’s] jobs” to get them fired. Dr Phil insisted that Republicans are afraid to voice their opinions.

“We have to stand proud to help our neighbors to vote their conscience,” he said, encouraging conservatives to push back against boycotts of conservative businesses and advertisers who drop conservative clients.

He also encouraged the crowd to lead by example and love Americans who are voting “the other way.” His advice was met with tepid applause.

Former WWE wrestler Hulk Hogan spoke at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally.

He started by welcoming the voters to the “house that Hulkamania built,” referencing the fact that much of his early WWE career highlights occurred in Madison Square Garden.

He kept calling Trump supporters “Trumpamaniacs,” referencing his fans, who he used to call “Hulkamaniacs.”

Hogan said he didn’t see “no stinking Nazis in here” or “domestic terrorists in here,” the latter likely a reference to the Capitol riot convicts, which includes militia members who were convicted of seditious conspiracy.

Earlier this year, Hogan asked a Republican crowd if they wanted to see him “drop the leg” on Kamala Harris — a reference to his finishing move — after which he walked it back, noting that he was going to “get heat” for the comment.

“Whatcha gonna do about the border invasion? Whatcha gonna do about inflation? Whatcha gonna do about keeping America safe, brother?” Hogan asked, to which the crowd replied “vote Trump.”

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson received a warm reception at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, noting that he once saw the Grateful Dead at the venue.

He compared Trump returning to New York City to someone getting kicked out of a bar and a bouncer being embarassed for throwing “the most popular person at the bar” out.

“Donald Trump’s going to win,” Carlson said.

Private texts from Carlson that were made public during the Dominion Voting Systems defamation trial showed him saying he “passionately hated” Trump.

He accused Democrats of trying to “destroy the country” for four years because they’re “mad at his voters.”

He said people like Trump for two reasons; because he “likes them,” and because Trump has “liberated us from the obligation to tell lies.”

Carlson called Democrats the “single most useless people in the United States.”

He also called Vice President Kamala Harris a “metaphor” for the “system [Democrats] created to make themselves rich and powerful.”

“[Donald Trump] has give us the right to call BS on the charade,” Carlson said.

The former Fox host claimed that “every high school senior in the country” would back Trump.

Robert F Kennedy Jr — fresh off a scandal involving him carrying on a relationship with a reporter and bizarre stories about his dead brain worms, a dead bear cub, and a dead whale carcass — spoke in support of Donald Trump on Sunday.

RFK Jr initially tried to primary Joe Biden but then ran as an independent. He ultimately dropped out backed Trump.

“I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me,” he told the cheering crowd.

He said that the modern Democratic Party was the “party of war, the party of the CIA,” and was “dismantling women’s sports by letting men play women’s sports.”

“We don’t even know how Kamala Harris received the nomination,” RFK Jr said.

He also accused the Democrats of giving us the “sickest children in the world,” though it is typically Republicans who oppose agricultural and food production regulations.

The former primary candidate claimed that Trump would “rebuild the middle class,” despite the fact that Trump’s tax cut was responsible for a massive transfer of wealth from the middle class to the richest Americans during his term.