Former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz announced his endorsement of Donald Trump for the Republican nomination Monday.
Holtz, who coached Notre Dame and South Carolina before signing on with ESPN as a football analyst, made the endorsement official in a video posted by Trump’s Twitter page. He called the real estate mogul.
“Greetings. I’m Lou Holtz, and I wholeheartedly endorse Donald Trump for the next president of the United States,” Holtz said opening up the video.
“There are nothing but winners in Indiana,” Holtz said. “The main reason I’m endorsing him — I’ve played his golf course, I’ve stayed in his hotel — he does nothing but go first class in everything. He wants this country to be first class as well.”
Holtz joins a long line of coaches to have backed the GOP front-runner, with Trump already winning the support of former Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight and former Purdue University basketball coach Gene Keady, who joined Trump on the campaign trail earlier Monday.
The endorsement also comes as Trump looks to solidify support in Indiana ahead of Tuesday’s primary. Trump currently tops Cruz by nine points, according to the latest RealClearPolitics polling average.
