Former NFL kicker reveals why he's backing Trump and how he's trying to help turn a key swing state red

Former NFL kicker and "NFL connected CBS" broadcaster Jay Feely has endorsed erstwhile President Donald Trump successful the upcoming election. 

Feely's endorsement is 1 of galore Trump has received from the sports community, besides earning enactment from Hulk Hogan, Dana White and Brett Favre. He opened up astir wherefore helium is putting his support behind the erstwhile president during an interrogation connected OuKick's "Don't @ Me with Dan Dakich." 

"If you look astatine Donald Trump and you bash it objectively, and you conscionable look astatine his 3 oregon 4 years successful office, truly 3 years anterior COVID, and you look astatine immoderate nonsubjective measurement compared to 4 years of the Biden-Harris administration, and you speech astir the things that substance to radical astatine home, you speech astir the economy, you speech astir safety, you speech astir shelter, their home, the border, the economy, the things that substance to the radical astatine home, by each nonsubjective measurement Donald Trump did a amended occupation than the Biden-Harris administration." 

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Feely grew up successful Florida, but helium and his woman presently unrecorded successful Phoenix, wherever helium archetypal lived erstwhile helium played for the Arizona Cardinals from 2010-2013. Feely has 5 children: Lexi and Delmonte, who are each married; Jace, who is besides a kicker and plays astatine University of Colorado nether Deion Sanders; and Abby and Olivia, who are successful precocious school.

Feely believes that radical successful his authorities person a accidental to flip Arizona backmost to voting Republican successful the upcoming statesmanlike predetermination aft Trump mislaid the authorities successful 2020 to President Biden. However, helium has a connection to chap Republicans successful the authorities up of November. 

"There's implicit 200,000 registered Republicans successful Arizona that didn't ballot successful the past statesmanlike predetermination … If fractional of those radical ballot … conscionable fractional the registered Republicans successful Arizona, [Trump] wins the authorities of Arizona! It holds existent successful each of those plaything states arsenic well. So radical who are registered Republicans, they conscionable request to get retired and ballot for Donald Trump. I don't recognize to me, however you wouldn't due to the fact that the 2 parties person ne'er been further apart," Feely said. 

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"The ideas and what they privation to bash with our state are truthful diametrically opposed to each other, that I don't recognize that are similar ‘well I don’t similar Donald Trump truthful I don't deliberation I'm going to ballot for him,' … to me, I don't recognize that. You ballot for policy." 

A Fox News predetermination survey published connected Aug. 28 shows that Vice President Kamala Harris presently leads the erstwhile president successful Arizona by little than 1 point. In the Arizona Senate race, Democrat Ruben Gallego leads Republican Kari Lake by 56%-41%.

Trump won the authorities successful 2016 by 3.5 points. Arizona had antecedently been won by a Republican successful 15 of the past 16 statesmanlike elections dating backmost to 1952, lone losing it erstwhile successful that span, successful 1996. 

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Jay Feely of the Arizona Cardinals kicks an other constituent against the Tennessee Titans astatine LP Field connected Dec. 15, 2013 successful Nashville, Tennessee. (Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)

However, adjacent much than predetermination outcomes, Feely is hoping for a taste alteration successful American politics. 

"I deliberation we should beryllium capable to speech astir authorities and who we similar without radical casting stones, without saying ‘oh were going to cancel somebody,'" Feely said. "If you're wide and you judge successful a definite politician, you should beryllium capable to speech astir that, explicit your beliefs. If you similar Trump, you should beryllium capable to explicit your beliefs.

"Hopefully we tin get backmost to that someday."

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