Former NFL kicker and “NFL on CBS” broadcaster Jay Feely has endorsed former President Donald Trump in the upcoming election.
Feely's endorsement is one of many Trump has received from the sports community, having also received support from Hulk Hogan, Dana White and Brett Favre. He opened up about why he is giving his support Behind the former president during an interview on OuKick's “Don't @ Me with Dan Dakich.”
“If you look at Donald Trump and you look at it objectively, and you just look at his three or four years in office, actually three years before COVID, and you compare any objective measure to the four years of the Biden-Harris administration, and you talk about the things that matter to people at home, you talk about the economy, you talk about security, you talk about sheltering, about their homes, about the border, about the economy, about the things that matter to people at home, by every objective measure, Donald Trump did a better job than the Biden-Harris administration.”
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Feely grew up in Florida, but he and his wife currently live in Phoenix, where he first lived when he played for the Arizona Cardinals from 2010 to 2013. Feely has five children: Lexi and Delmonte, who are married; Jace, who is also a kicker and plays at the University of Colorado under Deion Sanders; and Abby and Olivia, who are in high school.
Feely believes residents of his state have a chance to turn Arizona Republican again in the upcoming presidential election, after Trump lost the state in 2020 to President Biden. However, he has a message for his fellow Republicans in the state heading into November.
“There are over 200,000 registered Republicans in Arizona who did not vote in the last presidential election… If half of those people vote… only half of the registered Republicans in Arizona, [Trump] “He wins Arizona! This is also true in every one of those key states. So people who are registered Republicans just have to go out and vote for Donald Trump. I don't understand why they wouldn't, because the two parties have never been so far apart,” Feely said.
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“Their ideas and what they want to do with our country are so diametrically opposed to each other that I don't understand why they say, 'Well, I don't like Donald Trump, so I don't think I'm going to vote for him'… To me, I don't understand that. You vote for policies.”
TO Fox News Election Poll The report released on August 28 shows that Vice President Kamala Harris currently leads the former president in Arizona by less than one point. In the Arizona Senate race, Democrat Ruben Gallego leads Republican Kari Lake by 56% to 41%.
Trump won the state in 2016 by 3.5 points. Arizona had previously been won by a Republican in 15 of the last 16 presidential elections dating back to 1952, and had only been lost once in that span, in 1996.
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Jay Feely of the Arizona Cardinals kicks an extra point against the Tennessee Titans at LP Field on December 15, 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)
But more than the election results, Feely expects a cultural shift in American politics.
“I think we should be able to talk about politics and who we like without people throwing stones at us, without saying 'let's cancel someone,'” Feely said. “If you're a liberal and you believe in a certain politician, you should be able to talk about that, express your beliefs. If you like Trump, you should be able to express your beliefs.
“Hopefully we can get back to that someday.”
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