Donald Trump attended the World Series game in Atlanta on Saturday night — his first public appearance in the state since he campaigned for Herschel Walker, the former football player who’s running for a Georgia Senate seat.
Trump's announcement earlier Saturday that he would attend a baseball game seemed a little out of left field — or at least a change up — given the former president in April demanded a boycott in the wake of the MLB announcing that it was pulling the 2021 All-Star game from the city in response to Georgia’s restrictive new voting law.
President Joe Biden won Georgia by a narrow margin in the 2020 election, a result that Trump repeatedly tried to get reversed — famously telling Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a recorded phone call, “I just want 11,780 votes” — or one more than he was losing the state by. “Looking forward to being at the World Series in Atlanta tonight,” Trump said in the statement, adding that Melania, his wife, would be joining him. Later, Melania did the chop, too, standing next to her husband in an open-air suite. Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows appeared to be there, and Walker was also in attendance, USA TodayTrump previously watched the Astros play the Washington Nationals in the 2019 World Series, though the then-president was loudly booed at Nationals Park.
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