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Article snippet: MORE heads to Alabama on Saturday for the most hotly anticipated regular season college football game in years, where he will seek relief from the bruising impeachment fight and redemption from a pair of recent outings to sporting events where he was publicly booed. Trump rarely ventures out into open settings beyond his own properties or White House or campaign events. But he will be in the stands in Tuscaloosa when Alabama hosts Louisiana State University (LSU), the third time in as many weeks that the president has attended a major sporting event. He was vigorously booed by fans at Nationals Park during Game 5 of the World Series and endured more jeers when he arrived at a mixed martial arts match in New York last weekend. But in reliably red Alabama with fans visiting from Louisiana, two states that voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016, the president is likely to receive the adulation he is seeking. "Presumably a college football crowd in Alabama is going to be a friendlier audience and an audience that’s kind of his base in that part of the country," said Guian McKee, an associate professor of presidential studies at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. "There is a little bit of a risk here," McKee added. "It is a college town, and if he gets booed at that game it sort of deepens the problem for him." Brent Buchanan, a national Republican pollster from Alabama, predicted a rapturous welcome for Trump at the game, which is scheduled to begin at... Link to the full article to read more