Former President Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign has confirmed to the Washington Examiner that it is planning to hold one of his final massive rallies of the 2024 election at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The event is reportedly scheduled for Oct. 27, just nine days before Election Day.
The rally will be one of Trump’s final string of arena tour rallies in battleground states before the Nov. 5 election.
Trump had campaigned three weeks ago in Uniondale, New York, with a crowd of over 16,000 supporters. At the event, he predicted he would be the first Republican nominee to win New York in 40 years.
“The reason I’m here,” Trump said, “we are going to win New York.”
He had held a packed outdoor rally on May 24 of thousands at Crotona Park in the Bronx. During his numerous court trials in New York City this year, Trump supporters were overflowing outside the courtroom and at numerous campaign stops he made in the Empire State.
Trump lost to President Joe Biden in 2020 in New York, but the results did show the former president had been gaining in support. The New York-born and raised candidate has been making an issue of the overwhelming influx of migrants in the area straining resources and causing increased crime.
The former president has been teasing that he was hoping to hold a rally at Madison Square Garden during the campaign season.
“I think I’ll do one maybe at Madison Square Garden,” Trump had told Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo in February.
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The event is not yet on Madison Square Garden’s events list for Oct. 27.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Madison Square Garden for confirmation.