Riley Gaines takes swipe at Harris after VP releases shock video to supporters
Riley Gaines bought 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 one in all many high-profile customers to share the video on X with a message mocking Harris for the unprompted and confusing-to-some video deal with.
“Now do you perceive why she did not go on Joe Rogan lol,” Gaines wrote in her put up 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 Get together’s official X account, featured Harris talking on to followers discouraged by the current election.
“I simply must remind you, don’t let anyone take your energy from you. You might have the identical energy that you simply did earlier than Nov. 5, and you’ve got the identical objective that you simply did. And you’ve got the identical capacity 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 Area on Aug. 23, 2024 in Glendale, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Photos)
Many different social media customers on X raised issues and questions on Harris’ supply throughout the sudden video, with many criticizing the Democratic Get together’s determination to put up 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 intention at a number of figures within the Democratic Get together lately and particularly within the current election cycle.
Gaines incited a back-and-forth debate with former Harris surrogate and Dallas Mavericks minority proprietor Mark Cuban over the vp’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 bought 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.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, left, and Riley Gaines. (IMAGN)
Gaines beforehand lambasted Ocasio-Cortez for her stance on trans athletes in girls’s sports activities. The Democratic congresswoman has been a frequent advocate for transgender rights and trans inclusion in girls’s sports activities throughout her tenure. Ocasio-Cortez lately spoke out towards Inexperienced Get together vice presidential candidate Butch Ware for saying he didn’t consider trans athletes ought to play in girls’s sports activities, calling the ticket “predatory.”
“AOC says it is predatory habits to not need males competing in girls’s sports activities. To AOC, acknowledging organic actuality is ‘predatory’ what’s really 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 because of its insurance policies on gender id.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court docket in Atlanta, particulars the shock Gaines and different swimmers felt once they realized they must share a locker room with Lia Thomas on the 2022 championships in Atlanta. It paperwork quite a few races they swam with Thomas, together with the 200-yard ultimate wherein 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 by way of 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 all the way 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 girls’s sports activities. Nevertheless, she has additionally taken benefit of loads of alternatives to make extra light-hearted digs towards these figures as properly throughout her ascendant rise on social media.
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