Scoop: Caitlyn Jenner makes it official for California governor

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

Former Olympic decathlete and reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner has filed her initial paperwork to run for governor of California and will officially announce her bid later today, her campaign tells Axios.

The big picture: Jenner, a longtime Republican, is seeking to replace Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in a recall election, hoping her celebrity status and name recognition can yield an upset in the nation's most populous state.

But in deep-blue California, she's decidedly not branding herself as a Trump Republican even as she's counting on some of the former president's advisers to drive her strategy.

She's assembled a team of prominent GOP operatives including Tony Fabrizio, the top pollster on Donald Trump's 2016 and 2020 campaigns, Ryan Erwin, founder of RedRock Strategies, and Tyler Deaton, president of Allegiance Strategies.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/caitlyn-jenner-california-governor-run-710153ef-7a89-460d-b9ec-9efed2a9399f.html

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How do conservatives balance opposition to trans-rights with support for a Trumpist candidate?

[niyad]

1. CA has had two useless celebrity puke governors, political neophytes. It does not need a third.

[joetheman]

44. I see what they are doing. Do you? nt

[niyad]

63. Please enlighten me.

[joetheman]

76. GOP not i in it to only win. They are in it to DIVIDE the vote count. nt

[Srkdqltr]

2. I am totally opposed to celebrities running for these type of office.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. That's dangerous, California will always heed a celebrity

[SunSeeker]

21. She's not much of a celebrity.

And she has ZERO charisma, unlike Reagan and Schwarzenegger.

She will not be elected.

[obamanut2012]

75. I absolutely agree

Even Trump had thuggish charisma, but Caitlyn Jenner has never had charisma, even after her Olympic wins and all the press. A very bland personality. Arnie is bigger than life, and Reagan had that folksy geegoshwillikers thing down pat.

[Crowman2009]

23. I doubt the San Francisco area is gonna fall for her act.

They aren't star-crazy like LA.

[Beastly Boy]

4. My sense is that she is a bit craftier than Trump and will drop out as soon as

the ratings for Keeping Up with the Kardassians recover and the series are renewed for the next season.

[niyad]

64. Dear Goddess, is that thing still running?

[xxqqqzme]

79. The Goddess is not amused.

Ms Jenner is a huge disappointment. She will fail. The Governor will not be recalled.

[NurseJackie]

5. She's not a serious candidate. This is a publicity stunt. She's lonely, and...

... she's tired of not being followed by photographers. She's having a crisis because she's not on TV any more.

[Percy]

16. Ding! Ding! Ding!

You win!

[pandr32]

26. Probably!

[FBaggins]

33. Probably

but the same things were said about Arnold Schwarzenegger

[NurseJackie]

62. She's a joke. Arnold's intentions were honorable.

Too bad he cheated on Maria.

[GoneOffShore]

71. ∆ This ∆

[xxqqqzme]

80. He had a tent installed on the lawn

of the capitol so he could smoke his cigars.

Hardly honorable. He thought it would revive his film career. Thankfully it did not. It took Jerry Brown 8 years to clean up the mess arnold created.

[paleotn]

66. That is correct.

[aocommunalpunch]

6. GTFOH nt

[JT45242]

7. Qualifications????!!??

Let's see a degree in Physical education -- which was NEVER used.

Killed people in a car crash that was not prosecuted but settled in civil court (could be a perfect Iowa politician -- Branstadt and son as a model)

"Reality" TV star --- that worked so well the last time one of those was elected.

[NullTuples]

54. Her college degree was in 1973; Olympic gold medals for track were in 1976

I'd say she used her degree as much as many people.

That fatal car crash that sure looked like it was 100% her fault is going to come back to haunt her though.

[mwooldri]

8. Disqualified in my eyes.

Being a Republican is disqualifying enough IMO.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. From the Hoarse Whisperer

Link to tweet

[GoneOffShore]

73. Getting massacred on Twitter. They're going to end up being one of this weeks 'Main Characters'

Couldn't be more deserved.

[PortTack]

10. The good news... Newsom will NOT be recalled

[LenaBaby61]

24. "The good news...Newsom will NOT be recalled."

Caitlyn Jenner can go walk off a short pier. We don't need her as a celebrity HACK governor here in California. I honestly don't follow the Kardashians, but have heard enough about them to know that they seem to be dysfunctional, void of any real morals or ethics and as my niece says, they seem completely worthless as human beings. We've lived through that filthy, a moral, racist, treasonous, lying grifting tRump family, and I sure as hell don't want to see that Jenner-Kardashian "MESS" anywhere near any levels of power.

[groundloop]

34. My daughter used to watch that worthless show...... all it did was to glorify stupidity.

[seta1950]

38. Exactly

[MLAA]

11. Ridiculous.

Greed and missing the spotlight? It certainly is not concern for the masses or minority groups under severe pressure like transgender folks.

[flying_wahini]

12. What kind of sick ego trip is she on? Really? What makes her so special?

Nuttin’ honey.

[flying_wahini]

13. What kind of sick ego trip is she on? Really? What makes her so special?

Nuttin’ honey.

[bahboo]

14. a vanity run from the vapid one....

no chance in hell....

[kimbutgar]

15. I wonder who's funding her?

They think California is so uber liberal we’re going to get rid of an excellent governor for a kardashian idiot!

I don’t think so!

[AllaN01Bear]

17. not all of ca is blue . most of it isnt . my county is mostly red with huge blue streaks in it.

orange county , sandeigo county. most central valley counties kern city and bakersfield . a lot of extreime northern counties (think state of jefferson types) are red .

[seta1950]

39. Not enough of them though

[NNadir]

49. When I lived in San Diego, Randy (Duke) Cunningham, Felon, was my congress person.

I was so embarrassed to have that freak "represent" me.

[dexdah]

50. Land doesn't vote

CA is blue where it counts: in the big populated cities.
Caitlyn Jenner, really!?! LOL

[SunSeeker]

18. She has no chance to be elected. nt

[malthaussen]

19. We should have emulated Caligula and made Secretariat a Senator.

Politics is so often the retirement option for washed-up athletes and celebrities who mostly weren't very good in their first career anyway. At least Jennings was a useful athlete when she was a he.

-- Mal

[Hugh_Lebowski]

41. Jenner ... just sayin ;)

She has no chance to win in California.

[GoneOffShore]

72. Unless Ted Nugent endorses.

[ashredux]

20. PR stunt.....the cash has dried up....no longer a 'thing'....needs publicity

[oldsoftie]

59. Just like the convenient Kardashain/West divorce. Gotta stay in the public eye!

Divorce coming after the show finally wraps up
Probably a NEW show to follow Kim around and see who she ends up with next.

[Sneederbunk]

22. I will be throwing my support behind Weird Al Yankovic.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

43. That would be a better choice ...

Weird Al is cool and funny at least.

I do get the joke, however

[Jon King]

25. Somebodies star is waning....

so needs that jolt of publicity. Yawn.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

27. Meh

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

28. Poor woman is dumber than a box of rocks.

Voted for Trump, thinking she could work within the Republican party to change its stance on LGBT issues.

Duh. About as vacuous as it gets.

[Warpy]

29. Just what California needs, another celebrity

and right wing fluffball. I hope she's satisfied with another 15 minutes of fame and the voters are more sensible than they were in the 1970s with Reagan.

[ibegurpard]

30. Contemptible

Supremely self-centered privileged piece of shit. Republicans are terrorizing trans people in legislatures across the country and this scumbag comes along and adds fuel to that fire with zero awareness of how her allegiance to abusers harms trans people further.

[PoliticAverse]

31. Gee I wonder if they'll turn it into a "reality" show. n/t

[packman]

32. Sure, why not - remember this

Jesse Ventura - former wrestler and former governor of Minnesota

[SpankMe]

35. God, no! She's a total, Trumpological idiot.

Emphasis on idiot.

[seta1950]

36. No thanks

We are sick of reality tv “actors” running for office never again , they’re a disaster.

[LudwigPastorius]

37. No more reality TV "stars" for elected office.

We should put it in the Constitution.

[peppertree]

40. Who's her running mate?

Some moral majority homophobe, I bet.

[patphil]

42. She's just trying to generate a little buzz.

It's difficult being a publicity hound when you're pretty much irrelevant.
This will get about as much traction as a bald tire on an icy hill.

[keithbvadu2]

45. A spoiler candidate

[maliaSmith]

46. Reality star thinks she will be our gov.

I'm a Californian who supports my great Gov
Gavin Newsom. He's done a very good job for Calif and won't be recalled. There are more Democrats than GOP in Calif and I just don't see any of us voting out our Gov.

[TexasBushwhacker]

47. The whole Jenner/Kardashian family are just a bunch

publicity whores.

[Rebl2]

57. So true

[Mad Kirrua]

48. Pardon Me while I Puke

[niyad]

65. Welcome to our DU family. LOVE your sig pic!

[Mad Kirrua]

81. Welcome to Our Land

And I've no quarrel with you! (Some of your ancestors maybe, but not you.)

[niyad]

82. I thank you for that. None of my people were on this land before the 1930's on one side, and the

1950's on the other, so I am hoping that none were involved in destruction, desecration, or appropriation.

[roamer65]

51. She's a Repuke...hopefully CA voters say no thanks!

Don’t need anymore Repukes in Sacramento.

[Lovie777]

52. Frist the primary which is full . . .

tons of republicans eyeing to run against Gov. Newsom. Second enlisting shithole's campaign members is a bad idea. Thirdly, many republicans just hate transgenders. Fourth, Democrats will vote for "D".

I'm pretty sure Newsome will be ok.

[Sibelius Fan]

53. Yawn...

[NullTuples]

55. Her running as a Republican, the party actively attacking & erasing trans kids...

Caitlyn's support for and promotion of the GOP, given her notoriety and platform, feels to me like a proverbial kick in the teeth, or whatever that saying is. It hurts and it feels dangerous.

[SarcasticSatyr]

56. She might be up against another celebrity attention whore ...

I hear Kanye's considering it ...

[keithbvadu2]

61. A family affair?

[Mawspam2]

60. Anyone donating to her "campaign" should know...

...Brad Parscale is running her website and collection system. You can bet he will siphon most of the money to himself.

https://nypost.com/2021/04/08/caitlyn-jenner-gets-help-from-brad-parscale-with-potential-run-for-ca-gov/

[FlyingPiggy]

67. THAT is who they are going to put up against Gavin Newsom??!?!!!

I am perplexed as to who they are targeting? Trumpers are so damn narrow minded, there is NO WAY in hell they will vote for her. Does she really think Democrats will take a liking to a person that is antiprogressive? Give me a break.....I've already donated to Gavin Newsom's defense campaign.

[llmart]

68. These celebrities need to get over themselves.

Speaking of which, whatever happened to Kid Rock who said he was running for President? Never heard another word after a month or so of that.

[Shellback Squid]

69. move to Alabama Caitlin, the governor needs replacing there

[Raine]

70. Yawn ... she's just putting her name out there along with about a hundred others

it's not worth getting worked up about.

[onetexan]

74. Yup, all for publicity stunt to keep her name relevant

And off of that become a media consultant or write a book or some other crazy platform nonsense to milk more $ from the public.

[Tiger8]

77. Don't Laugh - Big Money Far Right will Fund This, enabling her win

She is a right winger who will push for their agenda on Taxes, Big Business, Climate, Anti-union, Guns, etc. - but her trans status can lull people into thinking she is a "reasonable" moderate and even progressive.

[twodogsbarking]

78. She is not engaged to

Kayne West, so far.

[TexasBushwhacker]

83. I heard her little sound bite from her announcement

She said "It was easy coming out as trans. It was harder coming out as Republican."

Oh please. She was married to 3 women over a total of 38 years. She didn't come out publicly as trans until she was 65. I'm pretty sure she was always known as a Republican.