The final week of campaigning should be all about what George H W Bush used to call “the Big Mo,’” as in momentum. Ostensibly, that’s why Donald Trump wanted to have his rally in Madison Square Garden. Aside from being a New Yorker to his core, holding a huge rally in navy-blue New York City was meant to be a show of strength for Trump ahead of election week.
But the event became a disaster before Trump took to the stage. Early-in-the-night comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke: “There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” set off a cascade of negative reactions that rapidly spun out of control.
