Donald Trump invoked the deceased Penn State’s famous football coach Joe Paterno at a rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 13, asking the crowd a question about the famous football coach:
“How’s Joe Paterno?” Trump said, “Are we gonna bring that back? Right? ... How about that whole deal?”
Trump’s call to reinstate the statue comes with a recent poll showing that a majority—59 percent of Pennsylvania adults—were in favor of putting the famous football coach’s statue back on the college campus.
The Pittsburgh rally had approximately 8,000 people, and Trump touted his connection to the state—Trump is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.
Pennsylvania goes to the polls on April 26, and so far, recent polls show Trump with a commanding lead.
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