Former President Trump will carry his showmanship-style Sunday to a marketing campaign rally at New York Metropolis’s iconic Madison Sq. Backyard, an occasion that’s anticipated to attract hundreds of supporters.
The rally in “the world’s most famous arena” comes as Trump targets a deep-blue state that final backed a Republican in 1984. Dwelling 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 every week earlier than the election, which was finally gained by Richard Nixon, a Republican.
Nixon hosted a Halloween marketing campaign rally on the Backyard, every week earlier than his Election Day victory throughout one of the turbulent intervals in American historical past.
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On Oct. 31, 1964, Incumbent Democratic President Lyndon Johnson addressed fellow Democrats on the “old” MSG venue, which was 16 blocks north of the present Backyard.
“I have come to New York in the final hours of this campaign,” Johnson mentioned. “I come to say to you once again that your president will need your prayers and your president will need your support, and your president will also need Democratic congressmen in the House and Bob Kennedy in the Senate.”
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Earlier than Johnson, incumbent Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower got here to the Backyard in October 1956 to rally his troops for the Eisenhower/Nixon ticket. It labored.
Throughout his speech, Eisenhower addressed the economic system and the Chilly Conflict with the Soviet Union, which started a number of years earlier.
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“There is, of course, nothing amusing when the opposition’s political techniques are extended to world affairs.,” he mentioned. “They urge a vigorous and realistic policy towards the Communist empire–and they suggest that we begin, in our relations with the Soviet Union, by trusting our national safety to agreements that have no effective safeguards and no controls.”
“I respond to such propositions with one firm belief. There is no political campaign that justifies the declaration of a moratorium on common sense,” he added.”
Days before defeating Republican nominee Thomas Dewey of New York in 1948, President Harry Truman, a Democrat, visited MSG, where he said his opponent kept following him across the country.
“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 is just not going to observe you – and that is within the White Home,'” said Truman before assailing the Republican Party.
“The Republican candidate can observe me all the way in which 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 said. “He’s doing all he can to make you overlook that file. He would not dare discuss 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 method. However after I had analyzed the scenario I got here to the conclusion that the file of the Republican Occasion is way too dangerous to speak about.”
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On Oct. 28, 1940, Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke to supporters before winning his election against Republican nominee Wendell Wilkie.
In his remarks, FDR addressed the Great Depression and the Second World War taking place in Europe and his increase in defense spending amid threats from abroad.
He accused Republicans of playing politics with America’s defense as war raged in Europe and Asia amid pressure to isolate the U.S. to stay out of the conflict.
“I say that the Republican leaders performed politics with protection in 1938 and 1939,” said FDR. “I say that they’re taking part in politics with our nationwide safety as we speak.”
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Herbert Hoover addressed a crowd at MSG on October 22, 1928, before winning his election. Despite the long list of presidents that have graced the venue, MSG has also hosted some controversial gatherings, including the notorious “Professional-American Rally” of 1939.
The occasion was organized by the pro-Nazi German American Bund and was attended by hundreds within the lead-up to World Conflict II. Days later, the Backyard hosted a Communist Occasion rally.