The Washington Post, September 2024
Wearing a navy blue Harris-Walz jacket and a camo baseball cap, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sat in a private suite in Michigan Stadium on Saturday, cheering on a football game with 110,339 other fans and giving the campaign a high visibility perch on a busy September weekend.
Eight hours later and more than 750 miles away in Tuscaloosa, Ala., GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump settled into his own seat in Bryant-Denny Stadium for the much-anticipated showdown between No. 2 Georgia and No. 4 Alabama. Alabama is reliably red territory on the political map, but the appearance provided Trump an opportunity to nudge his way into the night’s biggest spotlight and partake in one of the country’s most popular fall rituals.
