Who had more attendees at Madison Square garden trump or Harris

1. Trump’s MSG number: sold‑out arena, roughly 19,500 on record

Multiple news outlets and the Trump campaign described the Madison Square Garden event as sold out and cited the venue’s seating capacity as about 19,500, a figure carried in reporting by Newsweek, Hindustan Times, Reuters and others that covered the Oct. 27 rally ^{[1] [2] [3]}. Journalistic accounts and subsequent commentary repeated the 19,500 number when describing the scale of the indoor crowd at MSG ^{[5] [6]}.

2. Harris did not hold a Madison Square Garden rally; her big crowds were elsewhere

Reporting makes clear Harris’s major late‑October events were staged in other venues—most prominently a Houston rally that drew media reports of roughly 30,000 attendees and an Atlanta event reported at about 20,000—rather than MSG itself, so there is no reported Harris attendance figure at Madison Square Garden to place side‑by‑side with Trump’s MSG number ^{[3] [4]}.

3. Direct answer: at Madison Square Garden, Trump had more—because Harris had no MSG event

If the narrow question is “Who had more attendees at Madison Square Garden — Trump or Harris?” the factual answer is that Trump had the Madison Square Garden audience (about the arena’s 19,500 capacity) and Harris did not hold a rally at that venue per the cited reporting, so Trump is the only candidate with an MSG attendance figure to compare ^{[1] [2] [3]}. Sources consistently treat the MSG number as Trump’s and do not report a Harris attendance at MSG ^{[7] [8]}.

4. Context and caveats: outdoor vs indoor counts, campaign claims, and crowd‑count debate

Campaign crowd counts are often contested and reported differently depending on venue, method and motive: the Harris campaign publicly touted large outdoor turnouts (e.g., Houston ~30,000), while Trump’s team highlighted sold‑out indoor spectacles and sometimes framed external queues as evidence of additional demand ^{[3] [1]}. Independent analysts and prior coverage have noted both candidates describe crowd sizes in ways that serve political narratives; separate studies have suggested Trump’s campaign has at times exaggerated numbers while Harris’s reported figures have tended to align more closely with media estimates, though that general point is background reporting rather than an exact count for MSG ^{[9] [10]}.

5. Disputed claims and what reporting does not show

Some social posts and boasts circulated after the events, including wildly inflated claims (e.g., Trump‑era social noise or hyperbolic boasts about filling “10 times” MSG), but fact‑checking coverage and venue capacity data anchor the MSG figure near 19,500; reporting cited here does not substantiate any claim that Harris ever held a Madison Square Garden rally or that Trump’s MSG crowd was materially larger than the arena’s capacity ^{[11] [12]}. The sources do not provide independent turnstile counts, nor do they resolve how many people were turned away outside, so the precise total of people who attempted to attend beyond the official seating capacity remains unverified in these reports ^{[2] [1]}.

6. Bottom line with evidence cited

Based on the reporting provided, the direct and supported conclusion is that Donald Trump had the Madison Square Garden audience—reported as a sold‑out crowd at the arena’s approximate 19,500 capacity—while Kamala Harris did not hold an event at MSG; Harris’s larger reported totals were at other venues such as Houston (about 30,000), so for Madison Square Garden specifically, Trump is the only candidate with a reported attendee count and thus “had more” attendance at that venue ^{[1] [3] [4]}.