The former president, flanked by singer Kid Rock and golfer John Daly, played to fans early in the game, throwing boxes of popcorn to fans, who standing behind barricades. The audience inside the stadium cheered as Trump was shown on a video board, watching the game with Sens. Katie Britt, Tommy Tuberville and Steve Daines of Montana.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — As Donald Trump railed against immigrants Saturday afternoon in the Rust Belt, his supporters in the Deep South had turned his earlier broadsides into a rallying cry over a college football game as they prepared for the former president’s visit later in the evening.