{"id":118610,"date":"2024-10-26T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T07:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118610"},"modified":"2024-10-26T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T07:48:11","slug":"trumps-madison-square-garden-rally-fits-a-long-political-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118610","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Madison Square Garden rally fits a long political tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Republican Donald Trump\u2019s rally on Sunday at <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-madison-square-garden-a65158306ebd021a6dc094d0ac3f680d\">Madison Square Garden<\/a><\/span> follows a long line of political events at the storied New York City arena.<\/p>\n<p>The Garden has hosted both Democratic and Republican National Conventions since the 1800s, and in 1939, thousands joined back-to-back pro-Nazi and Communist Party rallies in the lead-up to World War II. Marilyn Monroe took the stage in 1962 to sing \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d to President John F. Kennedy, adding to the lore surrounding what the New York Knicks announcer calls \u201cthe world\u2019s most famous arena!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few highlights from the political history of Madison Square Garden, which has occupied four buildings over time.<\/p>\n<h2>Grover Cleveland stages a comeback<\/h2>\n<h2\/>\n<p>Grover Cleveland is the only U.S. president to have served two nonconsecutive terms. Trump hopes to become the second.<\/p>\n<p>After the 1892 Democratic National Convention met in Chicago and nominated Cleveland \u2014 then out of office after serving from 1885 to 1889 \u2014 he accepted the nomination with a speech at Madison Square Garden \u2014 the second one \u2014 in his home state of New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Evening World reported that \u201ca band stationed in one of the balconies played popular airs, the audience joining in the refrain of \u201cTa-ra-ra-boom-de-ay\u201d and \u201cFour years more of Grover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland promised to lower tariffs, whereas Trump has said <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-tariffs-economics-plan-6a4b07be04e342bf657ad12ef7b6bbfa\">imposing huge tariffs on foreign goods<\/a><\/span> would boost the U.S. economy. Cleveland then defeated Republican Benjamin Harrison, becoming both the 24th and 22nd president.<\/p>\n<h2>A record-setting 103 ballots<\/h2>\n<h2\/>\n<p>The Democratic Party that met at the second Madison Square Garden in 1924 was deeply divided over immigration, Prohibition and the growing prominence of the Ku Klux Klan. The race was deadlocked between William Gibbs McAdoo of California and New York Gov. Alfred E. Smith, whom the Klan opposed because he was Roman Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>From June 24 to July 9, ballot after ballot failed to secure a nomination. The Associated Press reported on July 2 that McAdoo \u201cpassed the much sought goal of 500 votes by dint of much frantic work and persuasion and maneuvering on the part of his floor managers, who declared they hadn\u2019t finished their work yet.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t enough. After both McAdoo and Smith dropped out, a compromise candidate, former West Virginia Congressman John W. Davis, was nominated on the 103rd ballot; he later lost to Republican Calvin Coolidge.<\/p>\n<h2>Speeches by Hoover, Roosevelt<\/h2>\n<h2\/>\n<p>While the first two Gardens were near Madison Square \u2014 where Broadway and Fifth Avenue meet at 23rd Street \u2014 the third was northwest of that neighborhood, on Eighth Avenue and West 50th Street. It opened in 1925, and hosted both Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt in their campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Facing Roosevelt, a Democrat promoting \u201ca New Deal for the American people,\u201d Hoover, the incumbent Republican president, said in an Oct. 21, 1932, speech that he opposed \u201cthe proposal to alter the whole foundations of our national life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roosevelt beat Hoover, then spoke at the Garden again during his 1936 and 1940 campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>He railed against \u201cthe old enemies of peace \u2014 business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering\u201d in a fiery Oct. 31, 1936 speech. \u201cNever before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today,\u201d Roosevelt said. \u201cThey are unanimous in their hate for me \u2014 and I welcome their hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Nazis, communists rally<\/h2>\n<div class=\"Infobox\" data-module=\"\" data-gtm-region=\"What to know about the 2024 Election Today's news: Follow live updates from the campaign trail from the AP. 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Learn more.\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Infobox-items RichTextBody\">\n<p><b>What to know about the 2024 Election<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2\/>\n<p>More than 20,000 people attended a Feb. 20, 1939 rally at the Garden organized by the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group that hung swastikas alongside a huge portrait of George Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s national secretary, James Wheeler-Hill, claimed that if the first U.S. president were alive, he \u201cwould be friends with Adolf Hitler.\u201d Wearing a Nazi armband, Bund leader Fritz Kuhn called for \u201ca socially just, white, gentile-ruled United States\u201d and \u201cgentile-controlled labor unions, free from Jewish Moscow-directed domination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Jewish protester, 26-year-old Isadore Greenbaum, rushed the stage. The AP reported on what happened next:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstantly, a dozen or more Storm Troopers set upon him, knocking him down and beating him as he held his head in his arms, his black, wild hair flying. A squad of police pushed the Storm Troopers aside, picked him from the floor of the platform and, holding him high above their heads, ran to an exit. Most of his clothing was torn from his body. Later, he was booked for disorderly conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 1930s also were the high point of the Communist Party\u2019s U.S. popularity. Police estimated that 16,000 to 17,000 people attended a communist rally at the Garden one week after the Bund gathering. CPUSA General Secretary Earl Browder said accusations that American Communists took their orders from Moscow constituted \u201ca slanderous attack,\u201d spread by supporters of \u201cthe Rome-Berlin-Tokyo anti-comintern alliance of war makers,\u201d the AP reported. <\/p>\n<h2>Presidential birthday bash<\/h2>\n<h2\/>\n<p>A Democratic Party fundraiser and John F. Kennedy birthday celebration, with Marilyn Monroe wearing a <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-met-gala-kim-kardashian-marilyn-monroe-ecb616a258fae2e06aa5e3779f365b22\">skintight dress<\/a><\/span> to serenade the president, was held at the Garden\u2019s third iteration on May 19, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>It had been the hottest May Day in New York City history, with temperatures rising to 99 degrees (37 Celsius). \u201cHeat waves still rose in the Garden when, after a sultry rendition of \u2018Happy Birthday\u2019 by Marilyn Monroe, the President remarked: \u2018I can now retire from politics,\u2019\u201d the AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>Monroe and Kennedy were both dead within a year and a half, she from a drug overdose and he from an assassin\u2019s bullet.<\/p>\n<h2>George Wallace campaigns in New York<\/h2>\n<p>The current Garden opened in 1968, about a mile south of its predecessor, home to the NBA\u2019s Knicks and the NHL\u2019s Rangers, and host to <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/billy-joel-madison-square-garden-residency-ending-53c05c88fedc151ec4efb850ec7d4031\">musical performances<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sports-boxing-new-york-muhammad-ali-duke-ragan-42449cfd3f8a38c168c6ba7ca14f3403\">prize fights<\/a><\/span> and other spectacles.<\/p>\n<p>George Wallace, the former and future governor of Alabama, gave a speech during his 1968 presidential race as the candidate of the American Independent Party, featuring a \u201cStand Up for America\u201d pitch for the kind of populist nationalism that defines Trump\u2019s \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d movement.<\/p>\n<p>The Wallace campaign was less explicitly racist than it had been Alabama, but he was pushing law and order: When protesters interrupted the Garden rally, Wallace asked why Democratic and Republican leaders \u201ckowtow to these anarchists.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have riots in Alabama. They start a riot down there, first one of \u2019em to pick up a brick gets a bullet in the brain, that\u2019s all,\u201d Wallace said.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Richard Nixon then beat Democrat Hubert Humphrey and Wallace to win the presidency.<\/p>\n<h2>Convention site for Democrats, Republicans<\/h2>\n<p>This Garden was also the site of the 1976, 1980 and 1992 Democratic National Conventions and the 2004 Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Carter alluded to the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal as he accepted his nomination. \u201cOur country has lived through a time of torment,\u201d Carter said. \u201cIt is now a time for healing. We want to have faith again. We want to be proud again. We just want the truth again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter returned in 1980 facing a challenge from Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, who lacked the needed delegates. AP reporters observed that Kennedy\u2019s \u201cfutile battle to reverse the odds was symbolized at the convention center, where his tiny suite of rooms contrasted with five large, white trailers decorated in Carter\u2019s campaign green, from which the president\u2019s men ran the convention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter won the nomination but lost the election to Republican Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<p>As Democrats met again in 1992, Bill Clinton accepted his nomination in a 52-minute speech that \u201ctested the attention of many in the partisan audience,\u201d according to AP political writer David Espo. Clinton promised \u201ca government that is leaner, not meaner; a government that expands opportunity, not bureaucracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party held its only Madison Square Garden convention in 2004, when New York was still shaken by the attacks at the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will build a safer world and a more hopeful America, and nothing will hold us back,\u201d President George W. Bush said. <\/p>\n<p>In the city outside, more than 1,800 people demonstrating against the Iraq War and for other causes were arrested.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-madison-square-garden-political-events-04c6f2d4e090c94cfdb1e949db82c532\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Republican Donald Trump\u2019s rally on Sunday at Madison Square Garden follows a long line of political events at the storied New York City arena. 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