ATLANTA — Former President Donald J. Trump, back in a game that earned him a bitterly contested loss in his failed 2020 re-election bid, attended the fourth game of the World Series Saturday night at Truist Park, participating in the Atlanta Braves’ tomahawk chop controversy moments before the game.
He sat in an outdoor suite along the hotline in Truist Park, coming into public view about 15 minutes before the first release, status of the national anthem alongside his wife, Melania.
Herschel Walker, the former Heisman Trophy winner whose bid for a Georgia Senate seat is subsidized through Trump, also afterward.
Trump, who lost the state of Georgia by less than 12,000 votes and then stressed his secretary of state to “look for” the number of votes to put him above, returned to the World Series for the first time since October 2019, when he attended. The fifth game in Washington National Park in his third year in office, Trump booed that night after being shown on the stadium’s video panel.
Georgia had voted for a Democratic candidate since 1992, before President Joe Biden won 49. 5% of the vote to Trump’s 49. 2%. In the suburbs of Cobb County, where the Braves moved in 2018 when they opened Truist Park, Biden won 56% of the vote. I vote 42% for Trump.
Trump informed Major League Baseball he will attend Game 4, the club’s executive director, Terry McGuirk, told GAME 2 forward USA TODAY Sports, and the club invited the newly elected from the two major political parties.
Still, Trump issued a message that he was invited to the fourth game through MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and club president Randy Levine ,” “from the wonderful New York Yankees. “
An MLB spokesman drew on McGuirk’s past and said the president had asked to attend.
After Manfred’s resolution in April to withdraw the July All-Star Game from Atlanta in protest of restrictive voting legislation passed in the state of Georgia, Trump called on his supporters to “boycott baseball. “
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“Baseball is already wasting a lot of fans,” Trump said in a statement, “and now they’re leaving Atlanta with their All-Star Game because they fear radical left-wing Democrats.
“Array . . . Boycott baseball and all the woke businesses that interfere with loose, fair elections. Do you pay attention to Coca-Cola, Delta and all?
Trump in the World Series is among the most notable public appearances he has made as a former president, as he continues to conduct rallies and increase the budget before 2024, though he has not announced whether he will run for office.
This article was originally published in USA TODAY: World Series: Donald Trump makes a tomahawk cut at game four in Atlanta.