Watch: NFL Legend Lawrence Taylor Joins Trump on Stage, Announces He's Left the Democratic Party for Trump
NFL legend Lawrence Taylor stumped for former President Donald Trump at a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday, saying he dumped the Democratic Party because of Trump.
“I just wanted to say, I grew up a Democrat. And I’ve always been a Democrat — until I met this man right here,” Taylor said of the former president as the crowd erupted into cheers.
The former New York Giants great, widely regarded as the best outside linebacker of all time, said his entire family is also done with Democrats.
“I’ll tell you what: He will not have to worry about nobody in my family ever vote for a Democrat again, OK?” Taylor said.
The two-time Super Bowl champ was joined on stage by fellow former Giants star O.J. Anderson, a Super Bowl MVP who also supports Trump.
President Trump invites football greats Lawrence Taylor and Ottis Anderson onstage in Wildwood, NJ pic.twitter.com/Z4ihpRBH5B
— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) May 11, 2024
It’s ironic that two prominent black Americans are such enthusiastic Trump supporters, given the liberal media’s endless smears attacking the presumptive Republican presidential nominee as a “racist.”
It’s also a scathing rebuke of President Joe Biden’s tone-deaf assertion to a black radio host in 2020 that “you ain’t black” if you don’t vote for Biden.
Trump electrified the audience at the rally, which drew an outsized crowd in the deep-blue state of New Jersey.
Between 80,000 and 100,000 people attended the beachfront gathering, Wildwood spokeswoman Lisa Fagan told The Associated Press.
At the event, the former president ripped Biden’s failed presidency, which has been marred by daily border invasions and crippling inflation.
“Instead of a Biden tax hike, I’ll give you a Trump middle-class, upper-class, lower-class, business-class big tax cut,” Trump said, according to WPVI-TV in Philadephia.
“You’re going to have the biggest tax cut,” he said.
Trump senior advisor Dan Scavino posted the entire rally on the social media platform X.
ICYMI—THE FULL TRUMP RALLY IN WILDWOOD, NJ… pic.twitter.com/Lj1Vn7VVCA
— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) May 12, 2024
Attendees expressed anxiety about the runaway inflation and Biden’s border disaster.
“It’s worse all the way around,” rallygoer Nick Carangi told WPVI.
“Underneath Trump, we were able to take vacations, start a business,” Carangi said. “I was just an average, go-to-work-everyday person, and it’s been hard since Biden’s been in.”
Sue Vessette told the outlet the illegal immigration crisis that has metastasized under the president is her biggest worry.
“We don’t know who’s being let in our country now,” she said. “We don’t know if these people are terrorists. We don’t know.”
If you want to know how we can reverse course, ask Lawrence Taylor.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
