Donald Trump will attend the Pittsburgh Steelers game against the New York Jets on Sunday, according to two sources, but that leaves campaign aides with a major headache.
Should he sit down with his friend and ambassador, Woody Johnson, owner of the Jets?
Or does he risk alienating tens of thousands of voters in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania if he doesn’t join the Rooney family, owners of the Steelers, in their box at Pittsburgh’s Acrisure Stadium?
With such a close election, everything matters.
Trump will hold a rally in nearby Latrobe on Saturday night and is scheduled to man the fry station at a Philadelphia McDonald’s the next day, a stunt designed to raise more questions about Kamala Harris’ holiday job at the 1980s.
DailyMail.com has learned that Donald Trump plans to attend the Pittsburgh Steelers football game against the New York Jets on Sunday at Acrisure Stadium.
And it illustrates how the Trump campaign is involved in Pennsylvania.
It is the most important of the seven battleground states, with 19 electoral college votes, and a DailyMail.com/JL Partners poll this week showed the two candidates in a tie.
Two sources told DailyMail.com that Trump plans to be at Sunday’s football game.
‘The only problem now is where does he sit? With the Rooneys or in Woody Johnson’s box and piss off all of Pittsburgh,” said a source familiar with the question.
The state narrowly went for Trump in 2016, but went for Joe Biden in 2020, by just over 70,000 votes.
The blue-collar city of Pittsburgh is a key battleground within the battleground. It votes Democratic but is surrounded by deeply red counties that are crucial to Trump’s hopes of victory in the state and therefore critical to his chances of winning the White House.
Trump held a town hall near Philadelphia on Monday night and plans multiple visits in the final weeks of the campaign.
John Fredericks, a radio host and Pennsylvania delegate to the Republican National Convention, said there was only one option for Trump.
The Steelers have been owned by the Rooney family since their founding in 1933. Arthur Joseph Rooney II currently serves as the team’s president.
Trump with the owner of the Jets and his former ambassador in London, Woody Johnson
Former Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown fueled speculation with a social media post.
“I know Woody Johnson was their ambassador and he’s from New York,” he said, “but if you go to a Steelers game you better sit in the Pittsburgh box.”
A football game would fit with Trump’s macho MAGA message as he faces off against Harris, who is running to be the first woman president.
And former Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown fueled rumors that Trump would attend the game on social media.
He retweeted a post by Trump confidant Laura Loomer raising the idea and added his own message that read “Trump x AB” followed by an icon of clasped black and white hands.