Longtime NFL kicker and ‘NFL on CBS’ analyst Jay Feely is voicing his support for Donald Trump’s bid for the Oval Office.
“If you look at Donald Trump and you do it objectively,” Feely told OutKick’s Dan Dakich“And if you just look at his three or four years in office, actually three years before COVID, and you look at any objective measure compared to the four years of the Biden-Harris administration, and you talk about the things that people at home care about, you talk about the economy, you talk about security, you talk about shelter, you talk about home, you talk about the border, you talk about the economy, you talk about the things that people at home care about, by every objective measure, Donald Trump did a better job than the Biden-Harris administration.”
Feely played golf with Trump in 2020 and considered it an “honor” at the time, but he is not supporting the Republican candidate due to any personal relationship. Instead, the former Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals player insists that Trump’s policy proposals put him ahead of the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz ticket.
Most importantly, Feely believes he can help Trump win back Arizona, where the 48-year-old Florida native has lived with his wife since his days with the Cardinals. Trump lost Arizona to Biden in 2020 by 10,457 votes, a state Republicans had won in 15 of the previous 16 presidential elections.
Four years earlier, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in Arizona by 91,234 votes.
AJ Feely is a regular on CBS’s NFL coverage and remains an outspoken Trump supporter.
Feely played golf with Trump in 2020 and called it an “honor” at the time.
The difference, in Feely’s eyes, is that Republicans were better represented at the polls in 2016, so he’s urging his fellow Republicans to recommit to voting in 2024.
“There are over 200,000 registered Republicans in Arizona who did not vote in the last presidential election,” said Feely, a married father of five. “If half of those people vote … just half of the registered Republicans in Arizona, (Trump) wins the state of Arizona.
“This is also true for each of those key states,” Feely continued. “So people who are registered Republicans just have to go out and vote for Donald Trump. I don’t understand why they wouldn’t, because the two parties have never been further apart.”
Feely also calls for a more civil political discourse in the country, although he does not mention the recent assassination attempts against Trump.
Instead, the CBS host expressed his desire to see people discuss political issues in public without being tainted by their beliefs.
“I think we should be able to talk about politics and who we like without people throwing stones at us, without saying ‘let’s cancel someone,'” Feely said. “If you’re a liberal and you believe in a certain politician, you should be able to talk about that, express your beliefs. If you like Trump, you should be able to express your beliefs.
“Hopefully we can get back to that someday.”