Riley Gaines Opens Up About Potential Run For Office

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Former NCAA swimmer and conservative activist Riley Gaines says she is “not ruling out” a run for office in the future.

Gaines has become one of the most outspoken voices on the issue of men in women’s sports. She has worked tirelessly these past few years to make sports fair for women again.

In a recent interview with Fox Digital, Gaines was asked if she would consider a political career.

“I am just so passionate, I care so deeply, and I love it, so we’ll see. It’s definitely not something I would rule out,” she responded, though she noted that it might be awhile before she is ready to seriously consider running for office,

“I don’t think I’m that crazy yet, because I do think you have to be a bit clinically insane to voluntarily do that. But I do believe that maybe eventually influencing policy in that way is something I see myself doing.”

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In the interview, Gaines also touched on her political role model: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

From Fox News Digital:

The former NCAA swimmer-turned-conservative activist has vowed to help unseat any Democrat who is enabling the inclusion of trans athletes in girls’ and women’s sports. That list added 45 senators to it on Monday night, after nearly every Senate Democrat voted against the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.”

Gaines spent Monday in Minnesota, rallying supporters to advocate for a state bill aimed at protecting femal athletes from trans inclusion. However, that bill also failed to pass, falling short in the Minnesota House of Representatives.

After Gaines helped President Donald Trump and Republicans capitalize on national outrage over Democrats allowing trans inclusion in girls’ sports, she now turns her attention to inflicting further consequences on the DNC in the 2026 midterms, as the party has seemingly refused to budge on the issue.

However, Gaines also is not ruling out the possibility of taking matters into her own hands, and eventually running for public office, she told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview last Friday.

“It’s never what I saw myself doing,” said Gaines, who majored in health sciences at the University of Kentucky and originally planned to pursue dentistry.

“But now, of course, with this issue and more, I would say the whole America-first agenda. I am just so passionate, I care so deeply, and I love it, so we’ll see. It’s definitely not something I would rule out. I don’t think I’m that crazy yet, because I do think you have to be a bit clinically insane to voluntarily do that. But I do believe that maybe eventually influencing policy in that way is something I see myself doing.”

Gaines said Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard would be her top role model in a potential political career.

“She’s so fierce, and she is so strong, and what you see is what you get,” Gaines said. “She stands firm for what she knows to be true, for what she knows to be right and righteous and moral and just. And I think we need more of that. We don’t have a lot of that, it is a very rare trait, especially in the political sphere.”

Gaines’ political resume already includes three years of highly-visible activism in the space of protecting women’s sports. This past week, a law named after her, “The Riley Gaines Act,” passed in the Georgia House of Representatives, which seeks to ban trans athletes in girls’ and women’s sports in that state.

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