Earlier today, USSF president Sunil Gulati tweeted out that the federation would be supporting Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan for president of FIFA.
Prince Ali is definitely not the frontrunner for the election - that would be Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain, president of the Asian Football Confederation.
US Soccer and Gulati have to know that Prince Ali is a longshot to win (though not as much of a longshot as fellow candidates Tokyo Sexwale and Jerome Champagne). So why endorse him at all? There is, after all, a very real possibility that if (when) Sheikh Salman wins, there could be backlash against the federations who didn't support him.