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Former President Trump will convey his showmanship Sunday to a marketing campaign rally at New York Metropolis’s iconic Madison Sq. Backyard, an occasion that’s anticipated to attract 1000’s of supporters.
The rally in “the world’s most well-known area” comes as Trump targets a deep-blue state that final backed a Republican in 1984. House to the NBA’s New York Knicks and NHL’s New York Rangers, the Backyard has an extended custom of internet hosting political occasions near Election Day.
In 1968, segregationist platform candidate and Alabama Gov. George Wallace hosted a marketing campaign rally on the venue per week earlier than the election, which was finally gained by Richard Nixon, a Republican.
Nixon hosted a Halloween marketing campaign rally on the Backyard, per week earlier than his Election Day victory throughout one of the crucial turbulent durations in American historical past.
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Attendees arrive forward of a marketing campaign occasion with former President Trump, not pictured, at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York, on Sunday. (Getty Photographs)
On Oct. 31, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson addressed fellow Democrats on the “previous” MSG venue, which was 16 blocks north of the present Backyard.
“I’ve come to New York within the closing hours of this marketing campaign,” Johnson mentioned. “I come to say to you as soon as once more that your president will want your prayers and your president will want your assist, and your president may also want Democratic congressmen within the Home and Bob Kennedy within the Senate.”
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Republican presidential candidateRichard Nixon (1913-1994) addresses supporters throughout a marketing campaign rally at Madison Sq. Backyard, Oct. 31, 1968. (David Fenton/Getty Photographs)
Earlier than Johnson, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower got here to the Backyard in October 1956 to rally his troops to re-elect the Eisenhower/Nixon ticket. It labored.
Throughout his speech, Eisenhower addressed the economic system and the Chilly Battle with the Soviet Union, which started a number of years earlier.
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George Wallace and Curtis LeMay on stage at his presidential marketing campaign rally at Madison Sq. Backyard. (Circa Photographs/GHI/Common Historical past Archive/Common Photographs Group by way of Getty Photographs)
“There’s, after all, nothing amusing when the opposition’s political methods are prolonged to world affairs.,” he mentioned. “They urge a vigorous and sensible coverage in direction of the Communist empire – and so they recommend that we start, in our relationships with the Soviet Union, by trusting our nationwide security to agreements that don’t have any efficient safeguards and no controls.”
“I reply to such propositions with one agency perception. There isn’t any political marketing campaign that justifies the declaration of a moratorium on widespread sense,” he added.”
Days earlier than defeating Republican nominee Thomas Dewey of New York in 1948, President Harry Truman, a Democrat, visited MSG, the place he mentioned his opponent stored following him throughout the nation.
President Harry S. Truman delivers a speech throughout his marketing campaign for re-election on Oct. 28, 1948, at Madison Sq. Backyard. (Jeff Hochberg/Getty Photographs)
“The White Home doctor instructed me to not fear. He mentioned: ‘You retain proper in your approach. There’s one place the place that fellow isn’t going to comply with you – and that is within the White Home,'” mentioned Truman earlier than assailing the Republican Social gathering.
“The Republican candidate can comply with me all the best way from Los Angeles to Madison Sq. Backyard, however the Republican file makes it sure that he’ll nonetheless be trailing alongside behind when the votes are counted,” he mentioned. “He’s doing all he can to make you overlook that file. He does not dare speak about it. I’ve by no means in my life been in a marketing campaign the place the opposition refused completely to debate the problems of the marketing campaign. I am unable to perceive that type of an strategy. However after I had analyzed the state of affairs I got here to the conclusion that the file of the Republican Social gathering is way too dangerous to speak about.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt hosted a marketing campaign rally at Madison Sq. Backyard in 1940. (Getty Photographs)
On Oct. 28, 1940, Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke to supporters earlier than profitable re-election in opposition to Republican nominee Wendell Wilkie.
In his remarks, FDR addressed the Nice Melancholy and the Second World Battle happening in Europe and his improve in protection spending amid threats from overseas.
He accused Republicans of enjoying politics with America’s protection as warfare raged in Europe and Asia amid stress to isolate the U.S. to remain out of the battle.
“I say that the Republican leaders performed politics with protection in 1938 and 1939,” mentioned FDR. “I say that they’re enjoying politics with our nationwide safety at this time.”
Snapping into the regulation Nazi salute, Bund members hail the swastika banner as it’s paraded in Madison Sq. Backyard throughout opening ceremonies of the German American Bund’s “Professional-American Celebration of George Washington’s Birthday.” (Getty Photographs)
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Herbert Hoover addressed a crowd at MSG on Oct. 22, 1928, earlier than profitable his election. Regardless of the lengthy checklist of presidents which have graced the venue, MSG has additionally hosted some controversial gatherings, together with the infamous “Professional-American Rally” of 1939.
The occasion was organized by the pro-Nazi German American Bund and was attended by 1000’s within the lead-up to World Battle II. Days later, the Backyard hosted a Communist Social gathering rally.
