memeorandum: Speakers at Trump MSG rally insult Dems, minorities (Meridith McGraw/Politico)

9:45 AM ET, October 28, 2024

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Libby Cathey / CBS News:

DNC projects message tying Trump to Hitler on Madison Square Garden during rally — The Democratic National Committee is projecting digital messages on Madison Square Garden's exterior during former President Donald Trump's campaign rally on Sunday about recent reports that he once praised Adolf Hitler …

Discussion: HuffPost, Washington Post, RedState, Breitbart, Alternet.org, Issues & Insights, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, Associated Press, The Independent and New York Post

Meridith McGraw / Politico:

Trump's New York homecoming sparks backlash over racist and vulgar remarks — A pro-Trump comedian's racist diatribe drew widespread condemnation. — NEW YORK — Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden, billed as a triumphant homecoming, instead turned into a political fiasco …

Discussion: The Times of Israel, The Guardian, Raw Story, Reuters, DNyuz and PoliticusUSA

Erica L. Green / New York Times:

A Trump Rally Speaker Trashed Puerto Ricans. Harris Reached Out to Them. — Her campaign moved swiftly to highlight that even as a speaker at Donald Trump's rally in New York made offensive remarks about Puerto Rico and Latinos, she was visiting Puerto Rican voters in Philadelphia.

Discussion: Variety, Alternet.org, Axios, Associated Press, NPR, HuffPost, Bloomberg and DNyuz

New York Times:

Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism — The inflammatory rally was a capstone for an increasingly aggrieved campaign for Donald Trump, whose rhetoric has grown darker and more menacing. — Donald J. Trump's closing rally at Madison Square Garden …

Discussion: Mediaite and The Guardian

David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:

Donald Trump's Racist NYC Rally Was Vile. It Was Also Political Suicide — FINAL ACT — The Madison Square Garden rally, operatic in its repulsive bigotry, will almost certainly alienate more voters who might have voted for Trump. — OPINION — To all those Republicans …

Discussion: Scripps News and Balloon Juice

Sabrina Rodriguez / Washington Post:

Anti-Puerto Rico comments at Trump rally spur outrage as Bad Bunny supports Harris — The artist's gesture of support came as a number of speakers at a Trump event in New York made racist and disparaging comments about Puerto Ricans and other Latinos. — Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican recording artist …

Discussion: Associated Press, Tusk, HuffPost, Mediaite, The Independent and DNyuz

Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Speakers at Trump MSG rally insult Dems, minorities

Discussion: New York Times, Associated Press, New York Post, Deadline and Mediaite

Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast: Trump Campaign Scrambles to Disavow Racist MSG Rally Joke

Alec Hernández / NBC News:
As Trump courts their vote, comedian at his rally makes racist jokes about Latinos and Puerto Rico

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Alex Thompson / Axios:
MAGA speakers unleash ugly rhetoric at Trump's MSG rally

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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Bad Bunny shares Kamala Harris's video on Puerto Rico on Instagram

Discussion: Billboard, Rolling Stone, Raw Story and DNyuz

The Guardian:
Puerto Rican stars Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin back Kamala Harris after racist comments at Trump rally

Discussion: Billboard, ComingSoon.net, Daily Mail, USA Today, CBS News, The Independent, The Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg, DNyuz, Forbes, Associated Press, Rolling Stone, HuffPost and Washington Post

Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump's Madison Square Garden rally overshadowed by his allies' crude and racist remarks

Discussion: Media Matters for America, Public and New York Times

Wall Street Journal: How a Splintered Left Is Preparing for a Possible Trump Victory

Alex Galbraith / Salon:
Trump-supporting comedian opens MSG rally by calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage”

Discussion: CBS News, HuffPost, Townhall, The Hill, Iowa Capital Dispatch, RedState, Alternet.org, New York Daily News and DNyuz

Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American: October 27, 2024 — I stand corrected. I thought this year's October surprise was the reality …

Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Speaker at Trump rally compares Puerto Rico to ‘island of garbage’

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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Hochul says Trump's Madison Square Garden rally is a ‘white flag of surrender’

Discussion: Alternet.org, Daily Mail, DNyuz, Washington Examiner, USA Today, The Gateway Pundit, Fox News, NewsNation, RedState, Los Angeles Times, Raw Story and Associated Press

Tara Suter / The Hill:
Walz compares Trump's Madison Square Garden rally to 1939 pro-Nazi event

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John L. Dorman / Business Insider:

2 new polls show Harris leading Trump as the election nears. Women continue to propel the VP's candidacy. — Kamala Harris' strength with female voters is fueling her overall leads in two new national polls. — A CBS News poll showed Harris up by one point, while an ABC News poll had her ahead by four points.

Discussion: USA Today, The Hill, New Jersey Online, Florida Politics, DNyuz, Boston Herald, New York Post, The Independent, CBS News, Silver Bulletin and ABC News

Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:

Kamala Harris says she'd take a cognitive test; challenges Trump “to take the same one” — Vice President Kamala Harris, responding to former President Donald Trump's claims about her IQ, said she would take a cognitive test — and “would challenge him to take the same one.”

Discussion: Axios and Washington Examiner

Rebecca Morin / USA Today:
Harris, Trump locked in dead heat in battleground Wisconsin, new exclusive poll says

Discussion: The Hill, Fox News and tippinsights

CNN:
CNN Poll: Most voters don't think Trump will concede if he loses the 2024 election

Discussion: The Hill, Scripps News, The Independent and Political Wire

Washington Post:

Some billionaires, CEOs hedge bets as Trump vows retribution — With the race tight, some business elites are toning down past criticism of the former president. — At a five-star resort in California last week, Wall Street executives, fast-food CEOs, a few dozen other industry titans …

Discussion: New York Times and CNN, more at Techmeme »

William Kristol / The Bulwark:

A Hatefest at the Garden — Lots of good stuff coming down the pike: Sarah will be going live tomorrow evening at 9 p.m. ET in the Substack mobile app for a chat with Dan Pfeiffer, former White House communications director and now author of the Message Box to discuss the last week of the race.

Discussion: The Times of Israel

ProPublica:

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader's Plans for a New Trump Agenda — Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought's “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants. — Co-published with Documented — Reporting Highlights

Discussion: Raw Story

Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:

Extremists inspired by conspiracy theories pose major threat to 2024 elections, U.S. intelligence warns — Candidates, elected officials, election workers, members of the media and judges involved in election cases are among those U.S. intelligence officials identified as targets.

Discussion: Wired

Judd Legum / Popular Information:

The billionaire-media complex — Jeff Bezos is the second-richest person in the world, with a net worth of approximately $211 billion. Most of Bezos' wealth is derived from his 9% stake in Amazon, the company he founded. Bezos also founded and owns Blue Origin, a private space exploration company worth billions.

Discussion: Alternet.org, The Hollywood Reporter, The Bulwark, The Guardian, Crooks and Liars, The Daily Beast and New York Post, more at Mediagazer »

Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:

Billionaire media bootlickers obey in advance — The owners of the LA Times and Washington Post give the finger to their readers and democracy. … 🗞️ Subscribe to Public Notice 🗞️ — Both the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post are refusing …

Discussion: The Guardian, The Atlantic, Politico, Vanity Fair and Fox News, more at Mediagazer »

Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:

The right is projecting irrational confidence about a Trump win. That could aid an effort to steal the election. — RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM JANE LEE & HELENA HIND — Right-wing media figures are displaying irrational levels of confidence in Donald Trump's chances of winning the presidential election.

Discussion: Blaze Media

Andrea Shalal / Reuters:

For many US voters, the economy is personal and they blame the Democrats — Tiesha Blackwell, 24, voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but says she is casting her ballot for Republican former President Donald Trump this year, and high food and housing prices are a chief reason.