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Major League Baseball moved the All-Star Game in 2021 to Colorado due to Georgia's voter suppression law.

Posted by Deadline: White House, Checked

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1 time·
Confidence
60%
Deadline: White HouseOct 28, 2026
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The sources confirm that MLB moved the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver's Coors Field in 2021 in response to Georgia's voting law, but the passage says the move happened in 2020, so the extracted claim's 2021 date departs from the post and the claim is not gradeable as the poster's statement.

What was said

… On this, we covered this, so this really kicks into high gear, predicated on the lie of fraud, and he told, Trump told the lie in 16, but it really happens in 2020 in Georgia with the voter suppression law, so abhorrent that Major League Baseball moves the All-Star Game that year to Colorado. It doesn't slow 48 states from enacting voter suppressions of their own, predicated on something they know is a lie. Rathensberger was the tip of the spear in saying we had no fraud here. He goes ahead and passes a voter suppression law. …
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What we found

Supports. AP, Reuters, NPR and CBS (April 2–6, 2021) report that MLB moved the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta over Georgia's new voting law, and NPR reports it was moved to Colorado's Coors Field.[1][2][3][4]

Context. The passage says the move happened 'in 2020' ('that year'), while the extracted claim says 2021. The claim adds a different date than the post states, so it is not the post's own assertion.

Context. MLB's stated reason was the Georgia law, though the Denver Post and NPR note that Colorado was chosen partly for logistical reasons, which bears on the 'due to' causal link.[3][5][6]

Sources

6 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 2 tier 2, 2 not rated

  1. 1MLB All-Star Game yanked from Georgia over voting lawapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
  2. 2Baseball moves its All-Star Game out of Georgia to protest voting lawreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
  3. 3MLB Moves All-Star Game To Colorado Amid Uproar Over ...npr.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
  4. 4MLB moves All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to Georgia's new voting lawcbsnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
  5. 5MLB doesn't touch politics in its All-Star Game announcement, but Colorado officials dodenverpost.com · not rated · cited for: context
  6. 6MLB All-Star Game Moved To Colorado Amid Uproar Over ...wwno.org · not rated · cited for: context

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