Former NFL kicker and Donald Trump supporter Jay Feely stated the second Trump survived an assassination try impressed him to hunt political workplace.
On Tuesday in Arizona, the ex-New York Jets and Arizona Cardinals participant introduced he was working for a U.S. House of Representatives seat within the 2026 midterms. He’s vying for the fifth District put up being vacated by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), who’s working for governor.
In a video shared by Cactus Politics, Feely stated he mentioned a run for workplace with Trump and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) at Mar-a-Lago two years in the past, nevertheless it “wasn’t the right time.” He began to rethink after Trump’s ear was grazed by a gunman’s bullet in Pennsylvania final summer season.
“You see somebody who’s willing to literally, intentionally give their life for our country, you start asking yourself, what am I doing and can I do more?” Feely stated.
“And that’s, I think, where my heart started to, like, lean towards running for office and actually thinking about it and praying about it,” he added.
In an interview with Fox News, Feely applauded the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants and accused former President Joe Biden of sitting by as “tens of millions of illegals come into our country and he could have taken the measures that President Trump did in three months.”
Some of the immigrants Trump has targeted in the last three months are in the country legally, and his administration has defied the courts in carrying out the deportations.
Feely, who has spent several seasons covering football for CBS, also gave a shout-out to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for keeping Republicans “united” behind Trump’s “endeavors to fix the border and fix our economy.”
Trump has, however, conducted a market-rattling tariff trade war while intimidating Fed Chair Jerome Powell ― both of which have eroded financial trust in the country.
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