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Donald Trump And Kamala Harris will cross several swing states on Wednesday, passing in Wisconsin, where the former president is expected to appear in Green Bay with a one-time local icon, retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre.
A longtime supporter of Trump and other Republicans, Favre spent most of his career with the Green Bay Packers, where he won the NFL Most Valuable Player award three times and a Super Bowl. But the Pro Football Hall of Famer has been in the news lately due to a welfare scandal in his home state of Mississippi.
Favre, 55, will not face criminal charges, but he is among more than three dozen people or groups facing charges as the state tries to recoup misspent money. Favre has reimbursed just over $1 million in speaker fees funded by the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program. Mississippi Auditor Shad White, a Republican, has said Favre never showed up for the speaking engagements. White said it too Favre still has debts almost $730,000 in interest.
Favre has posted and reposted messages on social media supporting Trump and criticizing Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee.
“In all the elections I have seen in my life, I have never seen one where there was so much hatred,” Favre wrote on X on Monday. “It is certainly sad to see.”
With six days until Election Day, Harris will travel from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Wisconsin’s capital, Madison, and then back south to Raleigh, North Carolina. Trump will move in the opposite direction, heading to Green Bay after an event in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
The focus on Wisconsin is no surprise. The Badger State is an ongoing presidential battleground, often decided by just a few thousand votes. Trump won it in 2016 by 23,000 votes and lost it to Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 by 20,000 votes.
By relying on Favre, Trump is tapping into the state’s deep and loyal support for the Packers and the team’s former star quarterback. But Favre also has more to deal with after being entangled in the Mississippi social spending scandal.
Mississippi has been among the poorest states for decades, but only then a fraction of federal welfare money has gone to families. Instead, the Mississippi Department of Human Services allowed well-connected people to waste tens of millions of dollars on welfare benefits between 2016 and 2019, according to White and state and federal prosecutors.
A nonprofit called the Mississippi Community Education Center made two distributions of welfare money to Favre Enterprises, the athlete’s company: $500,000 in December 2017 and $600,000 in June 2018. The TANF money was supposed to go to a volleyball arena at the University of Southern Mississippi. Favre agreed to lead fundraising for the facility at his alma mater, where his daughter started playing on the volleyball team in 2017.
Mississippi Community Education Center director Nancy New pleaded guilty in April 2022 to charges of spending welfare money incorrectlyas did her son Zachary New, who helped run the nonprofit. They are awaiting sentencing and have agreed to testify against others.
Favre published in September before a Republican-led congressional committee investigating how states are falling short in using social services to help families in need. Republicans in the US House have said that a Mississippi spending scandal involving Favre and others points to the need for “serious reforms” in the TANF program.
Favre told the congressional committee that he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in January.