{"id":153680,"date":"2026-06-28T22:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153680"},"modified":"2026-06-28T22:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:17:13","slug":"world-cup-attendance-the-potential-2028ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153680","title":{"rendered":"World Cup attendance: The potential 2028ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania has notched a lead in the 2028 World Cup primary, having attended three matches leading into the knockout round \u2014 just ahead of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/06\/27\/world-cup-2026\/josh-shapiro-philadelphia-fifa-world-cup-00979131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an interview with POLITICO<\/a> this week at the FIFA Fan Festival at Fairmount Park\u2019s Lemon Hill, Shapiro reveled in Philadelphia\u2019s host duties \u2014 and the World Cup more broadly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m especially proud to see people from all across the world coming here to Philadelphia and being greeted not just by a governor who\u2019s happy they\u2019re here, but by Philadelphians and Pennsylvanians who are thrilled to see them here,\u201d Shapiro told POLITICO in an interview. \u201cI think we are better than [President] Donald Trump\u2019s cruel rhetoric. We are better than his cruel policies, and I think we\u2019re seeing that on display here during the World Cup in Philly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are the potential 2028 presidential hopefuls who have attended a World Cup game so far:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro: 3 matches (Ivory Coast vs. Ecuador; France vs. Iraq; Cura\u00e7ao vs. Ivory Coast)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary of State Marco Rubio: 2 matches (U.S. vs. Paraguay; Colombia vs. Portugal) <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 California Gov. Gavin Newsom: 1 match (U.S. vs. Paraguay)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Former Vice President Kamala Harris: 1 match (U.S. vs. Turkey)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: 1 match (U.S. vs. Australia)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: 1 match (Scotland vs. Brazil)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/06\/28\/world-cup-2026\/2028-us-election-candidates-world-cup-attendance-00979365\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania has notched a lead in the 2028 World Cup primary, having attended three matches leading into the knockout round \u2014 just ahead of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153680"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}