Donald Trump Is Racking Up Many Sports Endorsemen

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Donald Trump Is Racking Up Many Sports Endorsements
For His Presidential Campaign. Here’s Why

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This unmatched support from the sporting world is the result of a confluence of factors working in Trump's favor, including the obvious facts that he has connections to the sports celebrity circuit and has long courted stars at his golf resorts.

But sports and politics experts also point out that his brand of blustery machismo has appeal for athletes raised in locker rooms, and that he has largely racked up endorsements from people who already fit Trump's largest demographic — angry white men.

"The fundamental point to me is that Trump is flying on the wings of a super-male doctrine of claims to toughness and his relentless expressions of aggression," said University of Texas professor John Hoberman, a social and cultural historian who has written extensively on the intersection of sports and politics. "This is an atavistic male ideology that survives in the NFL and elsewhere in the sports world."

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