Posted on 04/18/2024 2:53:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes is declining to weigh in on this year’s presidential race, urging voters in a new interview to do their own research before the election.
“I don’t want to pressure anyone to vote for a certain president,” Mahomes said in an interview with Time magazine published Tuesday. “I want people to use their voice, whoever they believe in. I want them to do the research.”
Time interviewed the three-time Super Bowl champion as part of its 100 Most Influential People of 2024 series.
He led his team to victory against the San Francisco 49ers in this year’s Super Bowl, also earning the Most Valuable Player award for the third time.
Mahomes and the Chiefs were further thrust into the national spotlight leading up to the championship after popstar Taylor Swift started attending the games to support her boyfriend, tight end Travis Kelce.
Conservative media spiraled into unproven conspiracy theories leading up to the Super Bowl that the NFL had rigged the playoffs to deliver a win to Kelce’s team so that Swift could endorse President Biden after the game. It’s not clear whether Swift, who endorsed Biden in 2020, will endorse anyone in 2024.
Mahomes joined Lebron James’s More Than a Vote campaign to help increase African American voter turnout in the 2020 election. He told Time that he is still considering his plans for the upcoming election, but the magazine noted that he did not publicly endorse anyone four years ago.
The quarterback joined Biden alongside his teammates last year after winning the 2023 Super Bowl. The president predicted at the time that Mahomes would be one of the greatest quarterbacks out “of any generation.”
Mahomes is not the only public figure to decline to endorse a candidate for 2024. Actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said that he will not be endorsing anyone for this year’s election after previously doing so in 2020.
“In the spirit of that, there’s gonna be no endorsement. Not that I’m afraid of it at all, but it’s just I realize that this level of influence, I’m going to keep my politics to myself. I think it’s between me and the ballot box,” Johnson said in an interview with Fox News’s Will Cain earlier this month.
Snoop Dogg praised Trump, but he didn’t endorse him. He almost made it sound like it might be too much trouble or too controversial to endorse him.
Yes, sanity for once in the sports world.
Yes, those things did happen. Turnout was at a record high in 2020 and both presidential candidates set records in many places for the number of votes received.
But nothing like routinely “90%” turnout anywhere, and the crap people have been throwing around EVERY year — not just 2020 — along the lines of “over 100% turnout in some Philadelphia precincts” has yet to be backed up with any proof (in Philly or anywhere else).
However if anyone HAS proof of something like that, I sure wish they’d post it because that would be some very interesting (and damning) data.
Obviously we have no idea who Mahomes supports, but it is interesting that we typically find that most noted personalities that are vocal with whom they support, support FJB. And it seems that most of those who don’t disclose who they support, when pressed have to “admit” they support DJT - probably out of a fear of reprisal . . .
I read that Michael Jordan was once asked why he never weighed in on political topics.His response was “because Republicans buy sneakers too”.
I read some reports of some that high. Again, they had to spread around the stuffed ballots. Especially the ones they allowed with no signature or date and received days later.
2020 was clearly stolen.
I went to bed at 3 am when Trump was up 900K in PA and woke up with him behind by 20K or so behind.
Same with GA.
Moot now but they’ll do it again.
I’m old enough to now die in a tyranny. Sad.
He must be a trump supporter. Democrats don’t do research.
I thought she had.
Most of her fans are blue, but there are a significant number of red fans that would be a big loss of market share.
Swift is many things, but she manages her brand very well.
Good for Patrick.
You think he’s Taylor’s boyfriend? Hardly. He’s married with at least one child. lol.
that's why he's a winner...he's smart.
Exactly.
I don't know if that's true. The majority may not follow politics at all.
“I don’t want to pressure anyone to vote for a certain presidentJust thinking he can is not only the height of arrogance but a slap in the face to the kneeling losers that he thinks would fall on his words.
You are being ridiculous. He opted out of endorsing. I in no way read this as him being arrogant. You are turning into a Democrat, where there is no right answer, everyone needs to be “gotcha-ed” int submission.
This is what conservatives have to be grateful for - when a celebrity chooses not to actively mock us and our chosen candidate. The idea of any truly popular celebrity openly siding with us is inconceivable. We’ve allowed popular culture to fall wholly into the hands of the Left.
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