All-American Halftime Show – Wikipedia Overview

2026 alternative to the Super Bowl LX halftime show

The All-American Halftime Show (also styled as the The All American Halftime Show) is a 2026 live entertainment event organized by the American conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA. It was announced as an alternative to the Super Bowl LX halftime show headlined by Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny and is scheduled to stream at the same time as the official halftime broadcast on February 8, 2026.^[[1]

In October 2025, Turning Point USA announced plans to host an alternative halftime event, describing their All-American Halftime Show as an entertainment option celebrating “faith, family, and freedom”, aimed at audiences seeking an alternative.^[[2]

Turning Point USA first publicized the show through its official channels in late 2025. According to press reports, the show is scheduled to stream on various online platforms and broadcast partners, including social media channels and conservative media outlets, coinciding with the Super Bowl LX halftime broadcast at around 8 p.m. Eastern time, with the broadcast starting at 7:30 p.m.^[[3]

The official website states that it can be viewed on Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Charge! and The National News Desk, DailyWire+, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Real America’s Voice, One America News Network, and NTD America.^[[4][[5]

Organizers announced a lineup featuring performers such as Kid Rock, Lee Brice, Brantley Gilbert, and Gabby Barrett.^[[6]

Reviewing the All-American Halftime Show for The Hollywood Reporter, Ethan Millman wrote that the performers “delivered nearly half an hour of religiously charged, star-spangled country music veering on jingoism and cringe”. Millman noted that as the Super Bowl is the most-viewed television event of the year, and Bad Bunny has 90.5 million Spotify listeners to Kid Rock’s 5.3 million, the idea that the All-American Halftime Show could rival the Super Bowl was “dubious at best”.^[[7]

In her recap for Billboard, Melinda Newman summarized the performance as “a respectful, enjoyable presentation that, as Kid Rock had promised, appealed to the conservative base”, viewing Brice’s song as the most political moment of the event. Newman felt that the show “undoubtedly didn’t go far right enough” for Make America Great Again supporters and likely Donald Trump himself, whereas the far left would be unable to ridicule any moments aside from the performers involved. Concluding her recap, Newman wrote: “It was a solid 15-minute presentation. They played it safe and sometimes that’s ok.”^[[8]

Some observers criticized the performance of Kid Rock, with commentators and social media users questioning whether he was lip-syncing portions of his set. Close-up footage suggested a lack of synchronization between his mouth movements and the recorded audio, and was noted by Billboard^[[8] and Mediaite.^[[9]