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Okay, thanks for listening. Here's the show. On Sunday afternoon to kick off the last full week of the 2024 presidential campaign

thousands of people lined up under a screen

several stories high with the image of former President Donald Trump. They were

waiting outside New York's Madison Square Garden where Trump was holding a campaign rally.

It was a homecoming of sorts for the man who's portrayed himself as the quintessential New Yorker.

I'm thrilled to be back in the city I love and thousands of proud hard-working

American Patriots you're with me we're all the headliner took this stage two hours

after he was scheduled to.

And before that, more than two dozen others spoke.

Many leaned into racist, misogynistic, and vulgar rhetoric, like comedian Tony Hinchcliffe.

I don't know if you guys know this,

but there's literally a floating island of garbage

in the middle of the ocean right now.

Yeah, I think it's called Puerto Rico.

There was intense backlash, and a Trump campaign advisor later put out a statement

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