Riley Gaines received in on the viral dialog surrounding Vice President Kamala Harris’ shock video addressing supporters that was launched on Tuesday.
Gaines, a former NCAA swimmer and conservative influencer, was certainly one of many high-profile customers to share the video on X with a message mocking Harris for the unprompted and confusing-to-some video handle.
“Now do you perceive why she did not go on Joe Rogan lol,” Gaines wrote in her publish re-sharing the video.
Harris not showing on Rogan’s podcast was pointed to as a key criticism of her marketing campaign technique each previous to and after her election defeat. President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and billionaire backer Elon Musk all did interviews with Rogan within the weeks main as much as the election.
Gaines, an OutKick contributor, raised the query about whether or not Harris’ look on the present would have been as helpful to her marketing campaign.
The video, shared by the Democratic Celebration’s official X account, featured Harris talking on to followers discouraged by the latest election.
“I simply should remind you, don’t let anyone take your energy from you. You’ve got the identical energy that you just did earlier than Nov. 5, and you’ve got the identical function that you just did. And you’ve got the identical potential to interact and encourage. So don’t ever let anyone or any circumstance take your energy from you,” Harris mentioned.
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Former aggressive swimmer Riley Gaines speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally for former President Donald Trump at Desert Diamond Enviornment on Aug. 23, 2024 in Glendale, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Photos)
Many different social media customers on X raised considerations and questions on Harris’ supply in the course of the surprising video, with many criticizing the Democratic Celebration’s resolution to publish it.
The video reportedly got here from a name Harris took with donors and volunteers earlier right this moment, when she addressed her election loss for the primary time since conceding to Trump.
In the meantime, Gaines has used her platform to take goal at a number of figures within the Democratic Celebration lately and particularly within the latest election cycle.
Gaines incited a back-and-forth debate with former Harris surrogate and Dallas Mavericks minority proprietor Mark Cuban over the vice chairman’s dealing with of the border disaster on Sept. 27. It was a debate that ended with Gaines getting the final phrase on Cuban.
Gaines additionally received in on a viral roast session of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. on Nov. 14, after it was found the congresswoman eliminated pronouns from her X bio.
RILEY GAINES REPEATEDLY TEARS INTO AOC FOR TAKING PRONOUNS OUT OF X BIO AFTER ADVOCATING FOR TRANS ATHLETES
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, left, and Riley Gaines. (IMAGN)
Gaines beforehand lambasted Ocasio-Cortez for her stance on trans athletes in ladies’s sports activities. The Democratic congresswoman has been a frequent advocate for transgender rights and trans inclusion in ladies’s sports activities throughout her tenure. Ocasio-Cortez lately spoke out towards Inexperienced Celebration vice presidential candidate Butch Ware for saying he didn’t imagine trans athletes ought to play in ladies’s sports activities, calling the ticket “predatory.”
“AOC says it is predatory conduct to not need males competing in ladies’s sports activities. To AOC, acknowledging organic actuality is ‘predatory’ You already know what’s truly predatory? Sexualizing youngsters and normalizing pedophilia,” Gaines wrote on X whereas posting a Fox Information Digital article about Ocasio-Cortez’ feedback.
Gaines leads a lawsuit towards the NCAA with different feminine athletes, accusing the governing physique of violating their Title IX rights attributable to its insurance policies on gender identification.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Courtroom in Atlanta, particulars the shock Gaines and different swimmers felt once they discovered they must share a locker room with Lia Thomas on the 2022 championships in Atlanta. It paperwork plenty of races they swam with Thomas, together with the 200-yard last through which Thomas and Gaines tied for fifth however Thomas, not Gaines, was handed the fifth-place trophy.
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Former Rep. Lee Zeldin and athlete Riley Gaines communicate exterior the 2024 Republican Nationwide Conference on the Fiserv Discussion board in Milwaukee on July 16, 2024. (J. Conrad Williams, Jr./Newsday RM through Getty Photos)
Gaines shared her harrowing recollection of her expertise being compelled to share a locker room with Thomas at a Trump marketing campaign rally on Oct. 23.
“I might share the grotesque particulars of what it was like being compelled to undress, inches away from a 6-foot-4 man who watched us strip right down to nothing, whereas he did the identical, exposing his fully-intact bare male physique,” Gaines mentioned. “There are not any phrases to explain the violation and the betrayal, the humiliation that we felt.”
Gaines has been a number one determine in holding Democrats to account for his or her previous stances on enabling trans inclusion in ladies’s sports activities. Nevertheless, she has additionally taken benefit of loads of alternatives to make extra light-hearted digs towards these figures as nicely throughout her ascendant rise on social media.
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