Democratic Vice Presidential nominee and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz echoed a previous comment by Hillary Clinton, claiming that former President Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden resembled a Nazi gathering from the 1930s—a comparison that is clearly wrong.

At a canvassing event in Las Vegas, Walz paralleled Trump’s rally on Sunday night to a 1939 “pro-America” rally organized by Hitler supporters at Madison Square Garden, which took place 85 years ago, shortly before World War II.

“Donald Trump’s got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden,” Walz stated on Sunday. “There’s a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden. And don’t think that he doesn’t know for one second exactly what they’re doing there. So, look, we said we’re all running like everything’s on the line because it is.”

Responding to these remarks, Trump 2024 senior adviser Tim Murtaugh criticized Walz’s comments on “Fox & Friends First,” calling them “offensive” and adding, “they should be ashamed of themselves.”

Clinton had previously drawn the same comparison, but as Murtaugh pointed out, her husband, former President Bill Clinton, accepted the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination at Madison Square Garden. This well-known New York venue, which often hosts events for Billy Joel, the New York Knicks, and the New York Rangers, has been the site of four Democratic conventions and one Republican convention.

Notably, former President Jimmy Carter accepted the Democratic nomination at Madison Square Garden in 1980, and then-President George W. Bush did the same for the Republican nomination in 2004, reports Fox News.

“It’s ridiculous. Here’s Kamala Harris, who Donald Trump is currently beating, which means she and her campaign are calling more than half the country a bunch of Nazis, yet she wants to be president of it,” Murtaugh commented. “There was an Israeli flag flying in Madison Square Garden. President Trump has been recently endorsed by imams in Detroit, and we had a Holocaust survivor as a special guest at the rally last night. And for Tim Walz to come out and say that, it is offensive, it is belittling to what actually happened in Europe at the hands of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews.”

Hillary Clinton on CNN says she agrees with John Kelly that Trump is a fascist and notes that Trump is about to "reenact" the Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939 pic.twitter.com/VqOMetgtoV

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“To make light of that by trying to score political points against your American opponent three-quarters of a century later is horribly offensive,” Murtaugh added. “This is a dying campaign, this is a struggling campaign, and they’re throwing anything at the wall that will stick. They should be ashamed of themselves.”

Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally reportedly reached full capacity, with 19,500 attendees, while Donald Trump Jr. noted that nearly 200,000 people attempted to secure tickets. New York last saw a Republican presidential candidate win the popular vote in 1984, when Ronald Reagan carried the state.