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Trump announces plans to attend Saturday's World Series game in Atlanta

Donald Trump announced he would be attending 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.

The announcement could seem a little out of left field — or at least a change up — given the former president in April demanded a boycott of baseball 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.

"Boycott baseball and all of the woke companies that are interfering with Free and Fair Elections,” the former president demanded, adding, "Baseball is already losing tremendous numbers of fans, and now they leave Atlanta with their All-Star Game because they are afraid of the Radical Left Democrats.