Patrick Mahomes Not Endorsing Anybody For President Even After Donald Trump Said He Likes Wife Brittany “Much Better Than Taylor Swift”
- Patrick Mahomes, quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs, has chosen not to publicly endorse any candidate in the upcoming presidential election, stating that he wants to use his platform to encourage people to get registered to vote and make their own decisions.
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is staying out of politics and revealing he’s not publicly endorsing Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.
The NFL star revealed he wouldn’t openly support a candidate in the upcoming presidential election despite his wife Brittany Mahomes coming out as a Trump advocate.
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“I don’t want my place and my platform to be used to endorse a candidate or do whatever, either way,” Mahomes told reporters on Wednesday, September 11, according to AP .
Patrick Mahomes continued, “I think my place is to inform people to get registered to vote. It’s to inform people to do their own research and then make the best decision for them and their family.”
Patrick Mahomes’ stance comes after Trump embraced Brittany Mahomes’ support for him following Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris .
“I was not a Taylor Swift fan,” Trump said on Fox & Friends . “It was just a question of time. You couldn’t possibly endorse Biden…But she’s a very liberal person. She seems to always endorse a Democrat, and she’ll probably pay a price for it in the marketplace.”
Trump called Brittany Mahomes “a big MAGA fan” and said, “That’s the one I like much better than Taylor Swift.”
The Swifties had felt conflicted after the singer was seen at a tennis event with Brittany and Patrick Mahomes. Brittany Mahomes has been an outspoken supporter of Trump and recently “liked a pro-Trump Instagram post. Swift and Brittany Mahomes started a friendship after the “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart” singer started dating Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
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