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.
Especially considering it seems like every relative he has makes it a point to make life difficult for him.
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Doesn’t matter who he endorses. It will separate him from 50% of his fans. Best just to shut up and play ball. Glad to see this.
Liberals don’t do “Research” they only do talking points from the Lame Stream Media. Conservatives do “Research”.
You are assuming he supports Biden. Maybe, maybe not. But Freepers tend to forget there are a lot of people out there who don’t follow politics, or just plain don’t care.
And usually vote Dem.
I’ll informed and uninformed always do.
Wise words.
You think everyone votes? Don’t the majority not vote?
Swifties aren’t going to like this.
Indeed is smart
He’ll get support from 90% of people on both sides for such a statement.
Taylor Swift hasn’t made an endorsement, and it’s beginning to look like she won’t.
The only people who will take exception with his stance will be the lefties who expect every athlete, entertainer and high profile person to openly side with them.
There is that.
But remember, almost everyone voted in 2020. Upwards of 90%! Some PA precincts reported over 100%!
Do I need the /s?
first the Rock, now Taylor’s beard....what celebrity will bail on brandon next?
An athlete staying in his lane?
Is that legal? 🤡
Smart man! Shut up and play!
True. He doesn’t need enemies he has his family and a road racing nut kid as a receiver.
“But remember, almost everyone voted in 2020. Upwards of 90%! Some PA precincts reported over 100%!
Do I need the /s?”
Good thing you asked, because many people would probably have thought those statistics were accurate. Anyone who thinks they ARE accurate is encouraged to provide proof.
First Patrick Maholmes and now Taylor Swift!!How am I supposed to know who to vote for?? Maybe Snoop Dogg will bail us out before it’s too late.
Actually, it happened. Many districts posted very high turnout. Higher than 2008, 12 and 16.
Some were reporting more votes in 2020 for Biden even over Obama by large margins.
Had to spread all of those stuffed ballots around.
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