Riley Gaines opens up on possibly running for office as she fights against Dems letting males in girls' sports

EXCLUSIVE: Riley Gaines has championed fairness successful women's sports. Will it pb her to the run trail?

The erstwhile NCAA swimmer-turned-conservative activistic has vowed to assistance unseat immoderate Democrat who is enabling the inclusion of trans athletes successful girls' and women's sports. That database added 45 senators to it connected Monday night, aft each Senate Democrat voted against the "Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act." 

Gaines spent Monday successful Minnesota, rallying supporters to advocator for a authorities measure aimed astatine protecting femal athletes from trans inclusion. However, that measure besides failed to pass, falling abbreviated successful the Minnesota House of Representatives. 

After Gaines helped President Donald Trump and Republicans capitalize connected nationalist outrage implicit Democrats allowing trans inclusion successful girls' sports, she present turns her attraction to inflicting further consequences connected the DNC successful the 2026 midterms, arsenic the enactment has seemingly refused to budge connected the issue. 

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Riley Gaines, a erstwhile All-American University of Kentucky swimmer, speaks earlier Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis astatine the Greenville Convention Center connected Friday, June 2, 2023. (MCKENZIE LANGE/ Staff / USA TODAY NETWORK)

However, Gaines besides is not ruling retired the anticipation of taking matters into her ain hands, and yet moving for nationalist office, she told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interrogation past Friday. 

"It's ne'er what I saw myself doing," said Gaines, who majored successful wellness sciences astatine the University of Kentucky and primitively planned to prosecute dentistry. 

"But now, of course, with this contented and more, I would accidental the full America-first agenda. I americium conscionable truthful passionate, I attraction truthful deeply, and I emotion it, truthful we'll see. It's decidedly not thing I would regularisation out. I don't deliberation I'm that brainsick yet, due to the fact that I bash deliberation you person to beryllium a spot clinically insane to voluntarily bash that. But I bash judge that possibly yet influencing argumentation successful that mode is thing I spot myself doing." 

Gaines said Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard would beryllium her apical relation exemplary successful a imaginable governmental career. 

"She's truthful fierce, and she is truthful strong, and what you spot is what you get," Gaines said. "She stands steadfast for what she knows to beryllium true, for what she knows to beryllium close and righteous and motivation and just. And I deliberation we request much of that. We don't person a batch of that, it is simply a precise uncommon trait, particularly successful the governmental sphere." 

Gaines' governmental resume already includes 3 years of highly-visible activism successful the abstraction of protecting women's sports. This past week, a instrumentality named aft her, "The Riley Gaines Act," passed successful the Georgia House of Representatives, which seeks to prohibition trans athletes successful girls' and women's sports successful that state. 

After campaigning for Trump and Republicans successful 2024, Gaines has go a rapidly-ascending blimpish counterculture figure, starring the fashionable "Gaines for Girls" OutKick podcast. 

This past week, she besides led a pre-race supplication astatine the NASCAR Cup Series’ EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix successful Austin, Texas.

If and erstwhile Gaines does go brainsick capable to propulsion her chapeau into the arena with her ain governmental campaign, she already has the assurance of astatine slightest 1 salient GOP figure. 

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., has worked intimately with Gaines arsenic a legislative state successful the conflict to support males retired of women's and girls' sports. Blackburn was a co-sponsor of the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act, and successful total, has projected 3 pieces of authorities to code the issue. 

Blackburn, from moving with Gaines connected that issue, has assurance that the erstwhile swimmer and aspiring dentist could execute thing she seeks to do.  

"I deliberation Riley has the quality to prosecute immoderate she wants to pursue," Blackburn antecedently told Fox News Digital. "She thought she would beryllium a dentist, and beingness has taken immoderate absorbing turns, and I americium truthful pleased to spot the enactment that she's doing to support women and girls." 

Gaines has already been outspoken connected issues beyond women's sports, taking a stance firmly successful enactment with Trump and the Republican mainstream connected issues similar migration and borderline security, U.S. relations with Ukraine and rolling backmost DEI. She has made these stances wide and accordant successful her societal media enactment going backmost aggregate years now. 

However, for the clip being, Gaines is focused connected mounting backmost the governmental careers of the Democrats who person voted to support trans athletes successful women's and girls' sports. 

Immediately aft Monday night's Senate vote, Gaines took to societal media to telephone retired the Democrats who voted against the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act, and rally her supporters to reason them. Gaines specifically pointed retired Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga.

"You person a daughter. Have you nary shame? Georgians are watching. I volition marque it my ngo to bash what I tin to region you from your legislature spot successful 2026," Gaines wrote implicit a photograph that showed the names of each Democratic legislator who voted against the bill. 

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President Donald Trump acknowledges erstwhile Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines earlier signing the No Men successful Women's Sports Executive Order into instrumentality successful the East Room of the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Feb. 5, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Gaines antecedently told Fox News Digital that she is expecting the enactment of elected Republican officials, including Trump, successful her efforts to unseat these senators. She besides claims that immoderate of the Democrats that she volition look to unseat are already opposed to trans inclusion. 

"In immoderate of these backstage confidential conversations that I person had with respective Democratic senators, they guarantee maine that they cognize it's absurd to let men into women's sports and that they wouldn't privation it to hap to their daughters. But they fell down galore antithetic excuses," Gaines said. 

After those alleged Senators hid down their excuses, they person officially made an adversary retired of Gaines, and the DNC whitethorn adjacent person to hole for Gaines to beryllium an adversary for galore years to come.

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