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Joanna Taylor
Feb 08, 2021
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Missouri senator Josh Hawley’s tweet about the Super Bowl has not gone down well.
The Republican lawmaker tweeted:
“LETS GO CHIEFS #ChiefsKingdom #RunItBack”.
The tweet would soon prove to be ill-fated as the Kansas City Chiefs were beaten 9-31 by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Some people joked that Hawley had “jinxed” the outcome with his enthusiastic tweet about his home state’s team. But others were more focussed on comparing his faith in the Super Bowl’s scoring system to his lack of faith in the US electoral process.
Hawley was the first US senator to announce that he would object to the certification of Joe Biden’s election win in December 2020. He also promulgated Trump’s baseless claim that the election was stolen from him and raised a fist in support of the Capitol rioters.
Hawley was called on to resign after the deadly riot left six people dead. He remained in office, but his support for Trump’s lies has not been forgotten.
And nor will it be any time soon, if the responses to his fairly generic Super Bowl tweet are anything to go by.
@HawleyMO Haven’t seen you cheer this hard for anyone in a little over a month. https://t.co/hdWU8BXIDX— Sleeping Giants (@Sleeping Giants) 1612755696
@HawleyMO Perhaps you should just sit things out, Joshua. The last time you cheered something on didn't go well eit… https://t.co/5b7dAt81C2— 🛹Alejandro Sosa’s Wife⭐️RIP Betty White❤️👯🌈🐶 (@🛹Alejandro Sosa’s Wife⭐️RIP Betty White❤️👯🌈🐶) 1612754327
@HawleyMO How about storming the stadium? https://t.co/v9E6YjS6Kb— PATRICE O'ROURKE ⛦ (@PATRICE O'ROURKE ⛦) 1612756651
Hawley's lack of faith in the election results was alluded to repeatedly.
@HawleyMO When they lose, he's gonna claim that it's actually up to state legislatures to decide.— Brian Tyler Cohen (@Brian Tyler Cohen) 1612736406
@HawleyMO They lost. Are you going to claim it was rigged and then incite an insurrection when the score isn’t overturned?— Erie Siobhan 🇺🇸 (@Erie Siobhan 🇺🇸) 1612756558
We may never know who truly won. https://t.co/H32hZv83iZ— The Lincoln Project (@The Lincoln Project) 1612756375
Hawley wanted to stop the count when the Chiefs were ahead. https://t.co/sgyzZVKnRE— Max Burns (@Max Burns) 1612753535
People even joked he lost the Chiefs the game.
@HawleyMO you did this— Erin Ryan (@Erin Ryan) 1612755795
@HawleyMO Just got off the phone with the entire team. They said they saw this tweet right before going out and threw the game on purpose.— 🦎SwampLizard🦎 (@🦎SwampLizard🦎) 1612759421
Kiss of death. https://t.co/ElpG3coCFE— ken olin (@ken olin) 1612759953
Hawley wasn't the only Republican to have a Super Bowl tweet badly misfire.
Donald Trump Jr was also ridiculed for lambasting the half-time ads for being "woke".
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