Jay Feely’s Trump Loyalty Claim Doesn’t Match His Record
When former NFL kicker Jay Feely launched his campaign for Congress in Arizona’s 5th District, he made a bold claim: that he has “been a supporter of President Trump since he began his political journey.” “I was a supporter of President Trump before it was cool, all the way back in 2016,” claimed Feely, who has made several similar claims so far in his young campaign. Feely’s embrace of Trump at this stage makes sense given the President’s popularity among the GOP faithful, but Feely critics point out that “he wasn’t ever on the Trump train when it mattered.”
Feely’s own public record contradicts his pro-Trump claims — it is filled with years of endorsements for Trump’s primary rivals and a long history of criticisms of Trump’s character and leadership.
In the 2016 Republican primary, Feely at times publicly supported Jeb Bush, John Kasich, and Marco Rubio—three of Trump’s fiercest opponents, and candidates who were openly critical of Trump’s MAGA ideology. As early as 2014, he named Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio as his preferred candidates. In 2015, he praised Kasich as a potential vice president and declared Kasich and Rubio were “looking the best so far.” He reiterated in August 2015 that he had “been a Rubio supporter for a while,” and kept backing Rubio all the way through Super Tuesday 2016. Feely’s public endorsements were a far cry from support for the man he now claims to have backed “since day one.”
Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio RT @dkobithen @jayfeely who would you like to see run for president in '16 for the gop?
— Jay Feely (@jayfeely) May 24, 2014
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