The National Fraternal Order of Police has endorsed Donald Trump and JD Vance in their 2024 bid for the White House against Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. This endorsement comes as the election race intensifies in its final months.
A letter from the NFOP, shared by the Team Trump account on X, stated: “Patrick Yoes, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, announced today that the members of the FOP voted to endorse Donald J. Trump for President of the United States.”
“Public safety and border security will be important issues in the last months of this campaign,” Yoes said. “Our members carefully considered the positions of the candidates on the issues, and there was no doubt—zero doubt—as to who they want as our President for the next four years: Donald J. Trump.”
According to the letter, two-thirds of all state lodges that are part of the NFOP must support a candidate for an endorsement to be finalized. “The FOP’s endorsement process is unique in that every member has the opportunity, through our 46 State Lodges, to make their choice known to the National Trustee.
Once informed by the membership as to their choice, the National Trustee casts his or her vote at our National Board meeting. In order to secure our endorsement, the candidate needs the support of two-thirds of the State Lodges, a benchmark former President Trump easily cleared,” the letter explained.
The NFOP reaffirmed their support for Trump, which was also given in 2016 and 2020. The letter noted that NFOP leadership met personally with Trump, but no such meeting occurred with Harris. Information from that meeting, along with responses to a questionnaire sent to both candidates, was shared with nearly 400,000 NFOP members to aid in their decision.
