Exclusive: Riley Gaines Has defended honesty in women’s sports. Will the hair lead to the campaign track?
The former NCAA swimmer-minded-conservative activist has sworn to help release every democrat that makes the inclusion of transth athletes in girls and women’s sports. That list added 45 senators on Monday evening, after each senate Democrat voted against The “Protection of women and girls in the Sports Act.”
Gaines spent Monday in Minnesota and collected supporters to argue for a state account that was aimed at protecting female athletes against trans -inclusion. However, that bill did not succeed in falling short in the House of Representatives of Minnesota.
After Gaines helped President Donald Trump and Republicans to take advantage of national indignation about Democrats who make trans -inclusion possible in girls’ sports, she now focuses on arousing further consequences for the DNC in the Mid -Terms of 2026, because the party apparently refused to surrender to the issue.
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Riley Gaines, a former All-American University of Kentucky swimmer, speaks for Florida Gov. Ron Desantis in the Greenville Convention Center on Friday 2 June 2023. (McKenzie Lange / Staff / USA Today Network)
However, Gaines also does not exclude the possibility of taking matters in their own hands and eventually walking for a public office, she told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview last Friday.
“It is never what I saw doing myself,” said Gaines, who studied in health sciences at the University of Kentucky and originally intended to pursue dentistry.
“But now, of course, with this issue and more, I would say the entire America-first agenda. I am just so passionate about it, I give it so deep about it, and I think it is great, so we will see. It is absolutely not something that I would exclude. I don’t think I am so crazy because I think you might do that.
Gaines said that director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard would be her top role in a potential political career.
“She is so bright and she is so strong, and what you see is what you get,” said Gaines. “She is determined for what she knows that is true, because what she knows it is good and just and moral and just. And I think we need more of it. We don’t have much of it, it is a very rare characteristic, especially in the political atmosphere.”
The political resume of Gaines has been visible activism in the space of protecting women’s sports for three years. Last week, a law named after her, “The Riley Gaines Act,“Passes in the Georgia House of Representatives, which tries to prohibit transatletes in girls and women’s sports.
After campaign for Trump and Republicans in 2024, Gaines has become a fast -caring conservative counterculture figure, which leads the popular “Gaines for girls” Outkick Podcast.
Last week she also led a pre-race prayer on the Nascar Cup series‘Echopark Automotive Grand Prix in Austin, Texas.
If and when gaines gets crazy enough to throw her hat in the arena with her own political campaign, she has all the confidence of at least one prominent Gop figure.
The transgenderism in the sport shifted the 2024 elections and a national counterculture was aware
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-tenn., Has worked closely with Gaines as a legislative ally in the struggle to keep men from the sport of women and girls. Blackburn was a co-sponsor of the protection of women and girls in the Sports Act and proposed a total of three legislation to tackle the problem.
Blackburn, from working with Gaines about that issue, has the confidence that the former swimmer and prospective dentist can achieve everything she wants to do.
“I think Riley has the opportunity to strive for what she wants to pursue,” Blackburn previously told Fox News Digital. “She thought she would be a dentist, and life has taken some interesting turns, and I am so happy to see the work she does to protect women and girls.”
Gaines has already been pronounced about issues that go beyond the sport of women, making a position strong in accordance with Trump and the Republican mainstream on issues such as immigration and border security, American relations with Ukraine and Rolling dei back. She has made these views clear and consistent in her social media activity that now goes back for several years.
For the time being, however, Gaines is aimed at reducing the political careers of the Democrats who voted to keep transatletes in the sport of women and girls.
Immediately after the senate’s vote on Monday evening Gaines went to social media to call the Democrats who voted against the protection of women and girls in the Sports Act and gathered her supporters to oppose them. Gaines pointed specifically at Senator Jon Ossoff, D-GA.
“You have a daughter. Do you not have shame? Georgians. I will make my mission to do what I can do to remove you from your senate seat in 2026,” Gaines wrote about a photo that showed the names of every democratic senator who voted against the bill.
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President Donald Trump acknowledges former Kentucky -swimmer Riley Gaines before he signed the No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)
Gaines previously told FOX News Digital that she expects the support of chosen Republican officials, including Trump, in her efforts to dismiss these senators. She also claims that some democrats she will look to look like, are already opposite trans -inclusion.
“In some of these private confidential conversations that I have had with different democratic senators, they assure me that they know that it is absurd to allow men in the sport of women and that they would not want it to happen to their daughters. But they hide behind many different apologies,” Gaines said.
After those alleged senators had hidden themselves behind their apologies, they officially made an opponent of Gaines and the DNC may even have to prepare for Gaines to be an opponent for many years.
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