In Alabama, Trump Goes From the Dark Rhetoric of His Campaign to Adulation of College Football Fans

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

81% : Mayers said in an interview before the game that he invited Trump so that he could enjoy a warm welcome.
79% : And, as Mayers noted, Trump is a longtime sports fan.
59% : " Trump came as the guest of Alabama businessman Ric Mayers Jr., a member of Mar-a-Lago.
52% : But when "the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump" was introduced to the capacity crowd of more than 100,000 fans -- all but a few thousand wearing crimson -- Trump smiled broadly and pumped his fist, like he had done on stage in July after the bullet of a would-be assassin grazed his ear and bloodied his face.
44% : But what seemed to matter most was a friendly home crowd's opportunity to cheer for Trump the same way they cheered the Crimson Tide, unburdened by anything he said in Wisconsin or anywhere else as he makes an increasingly dark closing argument.
40% : "You have no choice," Trump continued.
37% : "But I think Washington is broken, and it's both parties' faults -- and Trump is the kind of guy who will stand up.
29% : "There is, I think, a silent majority among the students that are not with Trump," argued Braden Vick, president of Alabama's College Democrats chapter.
27% : "You gotta get these people back where they came from," Trump said in Wisconsin, as the Republican presidential nominee again focused on Springfield, Ohio, which has been roiled by false claims he amplified that Haitian immigrants are stealing and "eating the dogs ... eating the cats" from neighbors' homes.
27% : They broke out in random chants of "Trump!
17% : Yates offered nothing disparaging about Trump's opponent, Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris, instead simply lamenting that she could not stay for the game and see Trump be recognized by the stadium public address system and shown pumping his fist on large video screens in the four corners of Bryant-Denny Stadium.
16% : Trump did not react to Milroe's scamper, perhaps recognizing that Georgia, not reliably Republican Alabama, is a key battleground in his contest against Harris.

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