Legendary college football coach Nick Saban has not explicitly endorsed either Donald Trump or Joe Biden ahead of the 2024 presidential election, but he has made it pretty clear over the years where he leans politically.
Earlier this year, college football analyst Alex Kirshner suggested that Nick Saban could run for a senate seat in the state of Alabama as a Democrat, noting that Nick Saban seems to be “at least a little bit” of a Democrat based on his support for several Liberal policies.
“Saban has indicated over the years that he does care about professional politics and is at least a little bit—emphasis on ‘a little bit’—of a Democrat. The former coach, a native West Virginian, is a longtime friend of retiring Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin and endorsed him in his 2018 reelection. In 2022 Saban signed a letter urging Manchin to help pass voting rights protections, though Saban later clarified by way of a media leak that he did not support going around the filibuster,” Kirshner wrote for Slate earlier this year.
“Saban said last year that college football players should be unionized and explained to an interviewer, ‘General Motors and the automotive industries had unions for a long time and they survived fairly well.’ Saban is a registered voter in Alabama, but the secretary of state’s office doesn’t list a party affiliation. Saban’s agent, Jimmy Sexton, did not reply to emailed questions about whether Saban would have any interest in running or under which party affiliation.”
Obviously, Saban has not publicly endorsed Biden in the election. But based on his political stances over the years, it’s safe to say that his typical political view is as a Democrat.
[Slate]
