Trump Madison Square Garden rally live updates: New York turns MAGA as Kamala Harris campaigns in Pennsylvania

The doors to Madison Square Garden opened at noon Eastern Time.

Fans lined up overnight in Manhattan for the historic event that will draw 20,000 MAGA fans.

Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson are among the guests who will speak before Trump takes the stage around 5 p.m.

Diehard MAGA fans gathered outside Madison Square Garden just before dawn ahead of Donald Trump’s big rally in New York City.

The sold-out event will see roughly 20,000 Trump fans flock to the Big Apple — just nine days before what could be the closest presidential election in history as Trump and Kamala Harris are virtually tied in every poll.

Dozens of committed Republicans were seen wearing red “Make America Great Again” baseball hats early Sunday morning in mostly liberal New York City, lining up at the corner of 33rd and 6th Avenue of America.

An array of Trump merchandise, including shirts, jackets, large billboards and a trailer full of flags — with the faces and names of the Republican nominees — surrounded the venue as the streets lit up in red, white and blue.

There was also a heavy police presence as groups of NYPD officers were seen outside MSG, accompanied by large police vehicles and multiple patrol cars.

NBC election guru Steve Kornacki said Sunday it’s “hard to ignore,” showing Donald Trump is gaining momentum with just over a week until the election.

On Meet The Press, he said that recent surveys do not show that Trump is withdrawing, but that the tight margins are bad news for the vice president.

The election still appears to be one of the closest in history, but the tide appears to have turned toward Trump in recent days.

Democrats have seen a bigger lead than Harris in recent elections leading up to Election Day.

Kornacki emphasized that the race will still be decided in the seven battleground states, but explained the national trend.

One thing we’ve noticed over the last few days is that these are not all the polls that are out there now, but we have seen a number of them – four in the last four days – that have turned out to be very small, but in the context of this close race, potentially meaningful movement toward Trump. I don’t want to overstate it, but at the same time, it’s hard to ignore these four

The CNBC poll recently showed Trump with a two-point lead. The Wall Street Journal poll shows Trump with a three-point lead.

These are national figures. CNN, The New York Times, a tie, CNN, a tie. The meaning here is a broader movement. Once again we look in Trump’s direction.

To put this into some context, here is our current national polling average. I’ll bring it up on the screen for you here. Harris continues to lead nationally.

We want to emphasize that. But we follow this every week on the air.

A few weeks ago, this number stood at three for Kamala Harris. Her lead in the polling average has now dropped to 1.2 because of some numbers I just showed you.

As the campaign enters its final stretch with less than 10 days to go before Election Day, former President Donald Trump is facing new accusations that he praised Adolf Hitler.

But with early voting underway, his Republican supporters are rejecting the latest allegations.

More than 38 million people have already voted in the elections.

The first in-person voting began in Michigan on Saturday, as a steady stream of Trump supporters showed up to cast their ballots for the ex-president.

They dismissed the reported praise of Hitler as “nonsense” and condemned the former White House chief of staff, retired General John Kelly, who shared his story about it.

In less than two weeks, Americans will decide whether Vice President Kamala Harris will become the first female president or whether former President Trump will win a second term.

But experts say another factor will play a big role in this decision: the weather.

In the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which devastated the East Coast from Florida to Virginia, many voters are still in recovery mode and may not be able to go to the polls.

Helene’s devastating impact on the swing state of North Carolina could have an especially strong influence on the election, political strategist Bradley Trunk told DailyMail.com.

“North Carolina is one of seven states that will determine who will be the next president of the United States,” he said. “You really can’t have much higher stakes than this.”

Elsewhere in the U.S., even an average rainfall could have a significant impact on voter turnout and mood, Trunk said.

Research has shown that rainfall has a negative impact on voter turnout. One study estimates that for every inch of rain that falls on voting day, turnout drops by 0.95 percentage points.

by Rob Crilly, Chief Political Correspondent

For two decades, Kari Lake’s throaty voice and pixie cut were a fixture on Fox 10 in Phoenix, providing the kind of comforting presence common on local news channels across the country: the introduction of cooking shows shortly after reporting details of gruesome murders.

That all seems like a long time ago.

Now she’s running for Senate as a Trump loyalist who, like him, parlayed TV name recognition into a political career that rose to national prominence and infamy after refusing to accept election defeat.

“She’s a killer,” Trump told DailyMail.com aboard his plane last year, as the 55-year-old was regularly suggested as a potential running mate.

She has held fundraisers at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida home, and some of the world’s top MAGA insiders have worked on her run for Senate.

Renowned pollster Frank Luntz revealed the exact moment Kamala Harris lost herself in the election.

During a CNN interview Wednesday, Luntz, also known as “The Nostradamus of pollsters,” said the Democratic nominee was doing well in the polls until she “froze” after turning her attention to Donald Trump.

“She had the best 60 days of any presidential candidate in modern history,” Luntz said.

“And then she became anti-Trump and focused on him and said, ‘Don’t vote for me, vote against him.’ Then everything froze.’

Luntz added that Trump is “defined” because he “doesn’t win” and “doesn’t lose” in the election, while his opponent is “less well defined.”

Donald Trump is heading to New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden to deliver his closing speech to Americans on why he should be back in the White House.

The sold-out event will bring out about 20,000 MAGA fans just nine days before what could be the closest presidential election in history as Trump and Kamala Harris are virtually tied in every poll.

It’s curious that Trump would choose to hold one of his final rallies at Madison Square Garden, as Harris has a solid 14-point lead over him in the state.

Although New York is a decidedly blue state, the Big Apple is still Trump’s original birthplace and where the billionaire started his business empire decades ago.

And he hopes to add momentum to a number of crucial elections in the state that Republicans must hold on to if they want to maintain their slim majority in the House of Representatives.

Former TV star Trump loves a show and MSG will undoubtedly give him the spectacle he craves.