Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker endorses Sen. Josh Hawley for re-election: 'No other person I'd want to support'

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker endorsed Josh Hawley successful his senatorial re-election bid, praising the erstwhile Missouri lawyer wide for being a "family" and "godly" man. 

Butker and Hawley made a associated quality Thursday connected "The Ingraham Angle," and the NFL prima said since helium had a bye week, helium wanted to deed the run trail. 

"We decided to enactment successful Kansas City, and I thought, who other would I privation to deed the run way with than Sen. Josh Hawley, who we've spent the past respective years unneurotic forming this relationship, and he's a household man, he's a godly man, and there's nary different idiosyncratic I'd privation to enactment to beryllium the archetypal campaigner that I'm endorsing," Butker said.

Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker endorsed Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., successful his reelection bid.

Hawley, who's moving against Democratic campaigner Lucas Kunce, said it’s an "honor" to person Butker’s endorsement and to person the Chiefs kicker retired connected the run way with him. 

"This is simply a feline who's not acrophobic to talk the truth, who's not acrophobic to accidental that we person got to basal connected the principles that this state was founded on. And erstwhile the near came aft him successful specified a crazy, nutty mode this past spring, helium didn't springiness an inch. And we request much of that successful the United States of America," Hawley told "The Ingraham Angle."

Butker came nether occurrence earlier this twelvemonth implicit remarks helium made astir women and their careers during a commencement address astatine Benedictine College. 

Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker gives the 2024 commencement code astatine Benedictine College.

He praised the pistillate graduates for their accomplishments, but said they’ve been told "diabolical lies" and should clasp becoming a "homemaker." 

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"Some of you whitethorn spell connected to pb palmy careers successful the world, but I would task to conjecture that the bulk of you are astir excited astir your matrimony and the children you volition bring into this world. I tin archer you that my beauteous woman Isabelle would beryllium the first to say that her beingness genuinely started erstwhile she began surviving her vocation arsenic a woman and arsenic a mother," Butker said astatine the time. 

He told Fox News big Laura Ingraham he’s "saddened" immoderate radical took his words successful a "poor manner." 

Butker, who has played for the Kansas City Chiefs since 2017, is simply a commited Catholic and  (Perry Knotts/Getty Images)

"I was trying to talk beingness for truthful galore women that person dedicated their beingness to being the homemaker, being the 1 that raises the children, and it's a beauteous role, but it's not a relation that should beryllium diminished," helium explained. 

"There's thing shameful if you are a pistillate and you privation to walk clip with your household and rise your children, truthful it's not putting down anyone who possibly wants to spell get a large acquisition and have a career, but it's much talking astir however beauteous it is for women to possibly conscionable measurement speech and prioritize their household and walk clip with their children and rise their family. And that's what I was conscionable trying to talk emotion about."

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Ingraham switched gears, asking the Chiefs kicker if he’s supporting erstwhile President Trump successful November, but Butker said he’s lone supporting the statesmanlike campaigner who is "going to beryllium the astir pro-life." 

Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Donald Trump speaks astatine a municipality hallway lawsuit successful Fayetteville, N.C., Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker) (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)

"Is determination immoderate equivocation astir supporting Trump?" Ingraham pressed.

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"I deliberation you person to ballot for whoever is going to beryllium the most pro-life," Butker responded. "And we person to beryllium prayerful men that enactment God first, and I deliberation that's what's going to beryllium champion for our country."