In a wide-ranging interview with Outkick's Clay Travis, ESPN radio host Paul Finebaum unveiled his interest in running for Alabama's open U.S. Senate seat.
Although Finebaum has yet to make a decision, he told Travis that if President Donald Trump urged him to run, it would be "impossible to tell him no."
“Impossible to tell him no,” Finebaum, who revealed that he had voted for Trump, said when asked about the possibility of having the president's backing. “There’s no way I could. I would tell him yes.”
In another segment, Finebaum detailed to Travis how ESPN "killed" an interview with Trump ahead of the 2019 Alabama-LSU game, which Trump attended, and how "devastated" he was.
"Our producer said we've got to do something big," Finebaum recalled. "‘College Gameday’ was going to be there. Obviously, our show isn’t ‘College Gameday.’ So, I reached out to a friend of mine in D.C. He said, ‘You want to get Trump?’ I said, 'Yeah!' I was doing ‘Get Up’ and ‘First Take’ in New York two days a week. I said I’m going to be in New York on Wednesday. He said, ‘I think we could do it at the White House Thursday morning. Can you get there?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I can get there. I’m in New York.’ He said, ‘Let me run it down the flagpole.’ He texted me back saying, ‘Looking good.’"
“I called my boss, and they killed it. I was devastated," he added. "They told me that we’re not allowed to mix politics with football.”
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