The lawyer for manosphere influencer Andrew Tate warned Republicans a reckoning is coming if President Donald Trump doesn’t step in to help with Tate’s legal battle that’s coming to a head in the United Kingdom.

Both Andrew and brother Tristan Tate are being held in a Miami jail while they fight extradition to the UK on 59 rape and sex trafficking charges. The brothers have denied all charges.

When reporters asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt in July, “Is President Trump or the administration — do they have any plans to intervene in the extradition process for the Tate brothers?”

Leavitt answered with a curt, “No.”

In addition, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters, “There’s no role for us to play at this moment, or maybe ever in that regard. But I’m not going to opine on [that].”

Now, the Tates are threatening to pull their support from Republicans in upcoming elections if Trump doesn’t come to their aid — and they could take their tens of millions of young, male followers with them.

“Andrew Tate was a material participant in ensuring President Trump’s victory,” Tate’s lawyer Joseph McBride told Vanity Fair. “And if Trump doesn’t support him, and if the next people who are going to be running for office potentially are just like, ‘Yeah, down the river he goes,’ that young cohort of people will break with the Republican Party in the next election.”

McBride drove home the point on an Instagram post, writing, “AOC will be the next President without the Manosphere and Andrew Tate.”

The Trump administration has reportedly help the Tates out of a jam before, like when they were under house arrest in Romania and unable to return to the United States. According to Vanity Fair:

Trump special envoy Ric Grenell, a public supporter of the Tates, had reportedly raised their case with Romanian officials at an international security conference in Munich. The Tates’ triumphant return to Miami functioned as something of a litmus test for conservative personalities, with some declaring that their brand of masculinity had no place in the party. Trump himself took a decidedly neutral stance that didn’t ostracize his celebrity fans. When asked in the Oval Office whether his administration had lobbied Romania to lift the travel ban, he said, “I know nothing about that.”

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) began a congressional oversight effort into Trump’s alleged involvement, writing, “Reports indicate that senior U.S. officials lobbied Romanian authorities to lift restrictions against the Tates, who say women should bear responsibility for being sexually assaulted, allowing them to travel freely against the objections of their alleged victims. One of the Tate brothers’ former lawyers, Paul Igrassia, now serves as the White House Liaison for the Department of Justice.”

The case, filed in April 2025, remains open.

In addition, Adler wrote that “Barron [Trump] is known to be a fan of Andrew’s, and Don Jr. once appeared on a livestream with Tate to promote a MAGA meme coin…After the assassination attempt on Trump in July 2024, Tate told reporters that he was ‘very close with the Trump family’ and had spoken to Barron about the shooting.”

With Democrats needing just three seats to flip the House in the midterms, every vote will count. Whether this propels Trump to try to hang on to the male youth vote through the Tate brothers remains to be seen.