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Today in Focus

US election extra: rage and racist bile at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Ed Pilkington was at Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night where the former president and a cabal of campaign surrogates pumped out a six-hour blast of racism and rage. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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No home. No address. No bank account. No bank account. No job. No home. No

0:12.0

address. No address, no bank account, no bank account, no job, no

0:17.3

job, no home.

0:19.6

It's time to break the vicious circle.

0:22.1

We're working with charities like shelter to provide a bank account for people

0:25.9

who are homeless. Search HSPC UK, no fixed address. This is the Guardian. From the Guardians today in focus this is US election extra with me Lucy Hoff.

0:45.0

Today Donald Trump gets his lifelong wish to perform at New York's Madison Square Garden.

0:51.0

And today this is Donald Trump's house, brother.

0:55.7

But it's his support acts that are making all the headlines.

0:58.6

Literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now.

1:03.0

Yeah, I think it's called Puerto Rico.

1:06.0

In a six hour long rally full of crude jokes, racist insults, and angry outbursts from comedians and hangers on.

1:14.0

He finally took to the stage for a version of his closing argument.

1:18.0

On day one I will launch the largest deportation program in American history.

1:23.0

To get the criminals out.

1:25.0

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris has been sprinkling

1:27.2

star dust on her campaign, parading the public support of Beyonce.

1:31.0

Are you all ready to add your voice to the new American soul?

1:37.0

Because I am.

1:40.0

With me is Ed Pilkington, chief reporter for Guardian US and Ed you were at

1:48.0

Madison Square Garden in New York for Trump's rally in front of no less than 20,000 people.

1:54.0

Tell me what the atmosphere was like.

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