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Former President Donald Trump will hold a massive campaign rally at New York's Madison Square Garden on Sunday – just nine days before voters cast their ballots.

The first-come, first-served event sold out just hours after it was announced.

The 19,500-seat venue is home to the New York Knicks and New York Rangers.

According to the Trump campaign, the program will feature political icons, celebrities, musicians, and friends and family of former President Trump, all of whom will discuss how he is “the best choice to fix everything that Kamala Harris broke.” “.

ELON MUSK and DANA WHITE perform at the “historic” Trump-MSG rally

“This epic event in the heart of President Trump’s hometown will be a showcase of the historic political movement President Trump built in the final days of the campaign,” the campaign said in a press release.

Elon Musk and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO Dana White will attend the rally on Sunday.

Musk has already started campaigning for Trump and gave a memorable speech Butler, PaEarlier this month, the former president returned to the same location where an attempt on his life was made on July 13.

White, who has been a close friend of Trump's for years and played a role in relaunching the mixed martial arts company in the early 2000s, introduced the former president at this year's Republican National Convention in Milwaukee crowd, the stakes have never been higher.

Other notable attendees this Sunday include former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, political commentator Tucker Carlson and former Democratic presidential candidate-turned-Republican Tulsi Gabbard.

High-profile names from the political world include Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, Speaker Mike Johnson, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla.

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Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump and former President Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.'s sons will also be there.

From the music world, Death Row Records founder Michael Harris Jr. will perform, as will singer Lee Greenwood and opera singer Christopher Macchio.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Uniondale, New York, on Wednesday, September 18, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)

The garden hosted the Republican National Convention (RNC) in 2004 and the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in 1924, 1976, 1980 and 1992.

Then-President Ronald Reagan was the last Republican to win New York in a race for the White House in his landslide re-election in 1984.

“We play for New Jersey. We’re playing for Virginia,” Trump said at a rally earlier this month, adding that he also plans to run in Minnesota and New Mexico.

Earlier this year, during a campaign stop at a bodega in Upper Manhattan, Trump said he would “fix New York.”

“We will attack – firstly you have to stop crime and we will let the police do their job. She needs to get her authority back. She has to be able to do her job,” Trump said. “And we're going to come to New York. We're doing a big job for New York and for other cities too. But this city, I love this city.”

Madison Square Garden

An aerial view of Madison Square Garden and the Skylight at Moynihan Station on September 19, 2020 in New York City. (C Taylor Crothers/Getty Images)

This will be Trump's second major rally in New York state.

Last month, Trump held a rally at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, Long Island. More than 60,000 tickets were requested, far exceeding the venue's 16,000-seat capacity. Thousands of fans who were not allowed into the venue watched his speech on large screens outside.

Trump rally on Long Island

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on September 18, 2024 in Uniondale, New York. (Getty Images)

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Trump also held a rally in the Bronx over the summer at Crotona Park, which was attended by 3,500 people. The New York Post reported that the rally in the Bronx attracted up to 10,000 supporters.

Meanwhile, more than 20,000 people attended his second rally in Butler, Pennsylvania over the weekend.

Entrance to Madison Square Garden

Entrance to Madison Square Garden. (Joan Slatkin/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The campaign also said it saw more than 100,000 people at the former president's May rally in Wildwood, New Jersey.

Trump previously said New York “has gotten so bad in the last three, four years.”

“And we will fix New York. So if we run for president, we'll have a big win in New York – we could win New York,” Trump said.

Trump clenches his fist at a rally in Uniondale, New York

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump raises his fist as he leaves a campaign rally at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, on Wednesday, September 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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While deep blue New York is unlikely to turn red in the race for the White House, another rally in the state could help Republicans get on the ballot as they try to increase their majority in the House of Representatives in November's election keep.

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