Former All-Pro NFL Player Promotes Voter Registration In Battleground State To Boost Trump

Antonio Brown, former wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is promoting a voter registration effort in Pennsylvania.

“Steeler Nation see you on Sunday at the game. Before then make sure to sign up to vote in this years election. @x makes it easy to find the info and every vote counts @elonmusk,” Brown said last week, sharing a link to register to vote in Pennsylvania.

Steeler Nation see you on Sunday at the game

Before then make sure to sign up to vote in this years election @x makes it easy to find the info and every vote counts @elonmusk https://t.co/YnwkN9zNbU pic.twitter.com/AfLe4jCN71

— AB (@AB84) October 4, 2024

The Super Bowl champion has openly supported Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

“Brown has been openly critical of Kamala Harris and announced his support for Donald Trump in an exclusive interview with OutKick earlier in 2024,” OutKick wrote.

Let people focus on all the bad

I’m moving forward with the good #CTESPN https://t.co/OlgPyfr5Pl

— AB (@AB84) October 6, 2024

Brown said he’s supporting Trump because of “common sense.”

Common sense #CTESPN

— AB (@AB84) October 6, 2024

Per OutKick:

Brown’s Trump endorsement, like most celebrity or athlete endorsements, will almost certainly have little-to-no impact on the outcome of the presidential election. But if there is any potential benefit for former President Trump, it could be in making it seem more socially acceptable for black voters to vote for him.

Polls have fluctuated wildly, but there does seem to be some meaningful increase in support for Trump among black voters, specifically black male voters.

“Next weekend will be my first time back to Pittsburgh since leaving the Steelers. Excited to be back in that black n yellow. All love Steelers Nation,” Brown said Friday.

Next weekend will be my first time back to Pittsburgh since leaving the Steelers

Excited to be back in that black n yellow

All love Steelers Nation pic.twitter.com/v3QV9CbtAZ

— AB (@AB84) October 12, 2024

The Steelers next home game is Sunday, October 20th.

“For the people in Pennsylvania who have never voted or on da fence on votin. Show up next week to the tailgate before the Steelers game… register to vote & get a picture wit me. More details soon,” Brown said Saturday.

Brown posted a picture of himself wearing a MAGA hat.

For the people in Pennsylvania who have never voted or on da fence on votin

Show up next week to the tailgate before the Steelers game… register to vote & get a picture wit me

More details soon pic.twitter.com/Zteykyj2mv

— AB (@AB84) October 12, 2024

Fox News reports:

As a former star with the Steelers, many of Brown’s fans reside in western Pennsylvania and could cast critical votes in November.

Brown has been a vocal supporter of former president Trump throughout the current election cycle. The former football star said he would officially endorse Trump, back in May, during an interview with OutKick’s Nick Adams, praising the former president’s background and contributions to figures in the Hip-Hop industry.

“I’ve never met him. I’ve got admiration for his business moves and I study his dad, Fred Trump. But, I think Donald Trump is a good businessman and come[s] from a good family and has been a good president,” Brown said. “I think he does some great things for my brothers in the music industry in regards to Lil Wayne, Kodak [Black].”

In the days leading up to the 2020 presidential election, five-time Grammy Award winner Lil Wayne met with Trump at a Florida golf club. Just a few weeks after the meeting, Wayne was charged with felony gun possession. He proceeded to enter a guilty plea. At the time, the music star faced up to a decade in prison.

But Wayne’s sentencing never happened, as the hip-hop artist was among the 143 pardons and commutations announced by the former president on his final day in office. On Jan. 21, 2021, Wayne thanked Trump for granting his pardon. Kodak Black was also pardoned by the former president just before he left office after the rapper was sentenced to almost four years in jail in 2019 for making a false statement to buy a firearm.

Attorney Bradford Cohen, who represents both Lil Wayne and Kodak Black, told Rolling Stone magazine: “President Trump and his administration have been tireless advocates on behalf of the African-American community.

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