Jason and Travis Kelce could soon have a powerful ally on Capitol Hill.
The Super Bowl-winning brothers currently employ the son of Democrat Peter Chatzky, a candidate for U.S. Congress in New York’s 17th district, which sits in the lower Hudson River valley.
The younger Chatzky, a lead social media producer named Jake, promoted his father’s congressional bid online Wednesday, writing on X: ‘HEALTHCARE IS A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT.’
As you can probably guess, his father is running on a pro-healthcare platform aimed at helping the roughly 60,000 uninsured people Westchester, Rockland and Duchess counties.
To announce his campaign, the elder Chatzky wrote an op-ed for LoHud.com, sharing his family’s struggles with his son’s early health problems and criticizing the Republicans’ healthcare agenda.
‘[President Donald] Trump and his cronies in Congress have slashed Medicaid and limited our access to the Affordable Care Act,’ Chatzky wrote. ‘As many as 15 million Americans will lose coverage. It’s estimated there will be 51,000 preventable deaths a year.’
The Kelce brothers have not publicly responded to the campaign, which isn’t a surprise, given their usual reluctance to rock the boat, politically. Their significant others, Kylie Kelce and Taylor Swift, have long established their opposition to the current White House regime.
Taylor Swift recently appeared on boyfriend Travis Kelce’s podcast, New Heights
Peter Chatzky (left) got some online support for his congressional campaign from son Jake
Kylie, Jason’s wife, told The New York Times in December that she does ‘aggressively lean’ to the left. Meanwhile Swift, Travis’ pop-star girlfriend, has publicly opposed Trump in both of the last two elections.
Trump, on the other hand, has gone from praising Swift online in 2012 (‘Taylor is terrific!’) to predicting doom for her and Travis in September of 2023.
‘I hope they enjoy their life, maybe together, maybe not,’ he told the Daily Caller. ‘Most likely not.’
Trump grew angrier with Swift in February of 2024.
‘I signed and was responsible for the Music Modernization Act for Taylor Swift and all other Musical Artists,’ Trump wrote online. ‘Joe Biden didn’t do anything for Taylor, and never will. There’s no way she could endorse Crooked Joe Biden, the worst and most corrupt President in the History of our Country, and be disloyal to the man who made her so much money.
‘Besides that, I like her boyfriend, Travis, even though he may be a Liberal, and probably can’t stand me!’
Trump has since described Swift as ‘unusually beautiful’ before declaring ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!’ after she endorsed Kamala Harris in September of last year.
shley Avignone, Taylor Swift and Ross Travis during Super Bowl LIX at Caesars Superdome
Trump, center, talks to Saints owner Gayle Benson, left, while standing next to Ivanka
Of course, Peter Chatzky’s congressional run has nothing to do with Swift or the Kelces, for that matter. The candidate did not reference his son’s famous employers at New Heights, nor the overwhelming success of the show’s recent interview with Swift.
Still, like Swift, Chatzky has been a thorn in Trump’s side for several years.
In addition to running a small tech company, he previously served as mayor and deputy mayor of Briarcliff Manor, where he fought against Trump’s plans for the Trump National Golf Club Westchester.
According to Chatzky’s website, the now-former mayor organized neighbors against the plans and prevented Trump’s ‘army of lawyers from steamrolling the village.’
As The New York Times later wrote of the battle in 1999: ‘During negotiations, Mr. Trump has abandoned some of his more grandiose plans and scaled back both projects. For instance, he reduced the size of the proposed clubhouse at Briar Hall from 81,500 square feet to 39,400.’
Chatzky continued his attacks on Trump in his op-ed.
‘If we collectively call for bold, transformative policies, including universal healthcare, then we will demonstrate to Americans that we are serious about using the immense power of the federal government not to serve ourselves as Trump does, but to serve the people,’ he wrote.