Caitlyn Jenner Says She's 'Poster Child for Change' for Republicans

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Caitlyn Jenner told the hosts of The View on Tuesday that she’d run for office again after her failed bid to unseat California Gov. Gavin Newsom. The recall election failed, and Jenner, who ran as a Republican, did not make it to the top 10 replacement candidates, according to ABC News. Jenner received about 1.1 percent of the vote during the recall election in California. Jenner wrote that elected Republican officials had supported her privately but wouldn’t be seen with her.

“Even though it didn't work out the way we wanted it to in the end, it was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life,” Jenner told the hosts. “Would I run again? Yes. I want to stay involved,” she said. “But there's other things that I would like to do, and that is — one is — try to get the Republican Party to be more inclusive.”

She said that people in the U.S. often boxed people into certain categories, but people need to come together. “And the Republican party needs to change, and to be honest with you, I am the poster child for change,” Jenner said.

When The View announced Jenner as a guest, people spoke out against the decision on social media.

https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/9/29/caitlyn-jenner-says-shes-poster-child-change-republicans

[Thomas Hurt]

1. She is delusional if she thinks they are going to accept her.

Does she think conservatism stands for change?

[getagrip_already]

2. the gop doesn't even want republicans anymore......

They only want white hetero trumpists. No others need apply.

[brush]

3. Exactly. She's tilting at windmills. Needs to get a dictionary.

She's a dilettante pol with deep, deep pockets from that show "Keeping up with the Kardasians" and can afford to "keep being involved", if one can call 1.1 percent of the vote involved, in a party than obviously doesn't welcome her.

She's apparently loves the spotlight but is wasting her time.

[hlthe2b]

4. Goodness. If she isn't the least self-aware person I've seen lately, she's on the list.

Clueless does not begin to describe her.

[tblue37]

6. Middle Age Riot says she "represents trans people the way Candace Owens represents

black people."

[Caliman73]

5. Man she is an idiot.

She is different but she is not the "poster child for change". She is the same, rich, out of touch White person, that conservatives have always been. She is transgender, but does absolutely nothing to advocate for acceptance of transgender people. She bitches about her taxes, even as she pays less a percentage of her wealth than the average working person does. Republicans still support those policies. The thing is that Republican policies are so toxic to everyone else, that they have had to go all in with the racists and religious Christian fundamentalists because no one else benefits from their ideas.

How about first, get your head out of your ass Jenner. Then you can look into whether you want to remain in politics.

[Lovie777]

7. STFU . . .....

[tanyev]

8. She's so full of herself.

[world wide wally]

13. Or full of something anyway.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Poster Child For...

...getting annihilated in an election, perhaps.
The "change" would only be losing so badly that voter suppression, dirty tricks & cheating wouldn't help.

[gratuitous]

10. I'm sure her impressive turnout in the recall election swayed a lot of Republicans

I mean, she got all the votes cast by the Kardashians; a couple of people who filled in the bubble and said, "Oh crap, I meant to fill in the bubble above that one," and a handful of monkey-wrenchers who thought it would be a hoot to vote for her.

[comradebillyboy]

11. Jenner sets trans rights back a decade. nt

[Retrograde]

12. She has an odd definition of "staying involved"

that included leaving the state in the middle of her campaign to film some show elsewhere - no wonder she barely cracked 1% despite her money and name recognition.

[themaguffin]

14. LOL

[lindysalsagal]

15. Where do I send the check? POSTERBOYSRUS?

I LOVE it. Let's DO THIS!

[SamKnause]

16. You're definitely a poster child.

I'm just not sure for what.

[Vinca]

17. Didn't they literally run her off when she showed up for GOP events? The Republican Party is

the polar opposite of inclusive. They don't even want to include women who would like to keep control of their own bodies in the mix, much less a transgender woman.

[kysrsoze]

18. Does she mean sex change? Everything else about her is just as shitty. She just doesn't like that

they don't accept her.

[EndlessWire]

19. Really out of touch with reality

Republicans would execute her if allowed. Just because Hollywood accepts her doesn't mean that conservative right wing Christians will. Get a grip, honey, and wake up to reality.

[Journeyman]

20. At 1.1% of the vote in the Recall, I can get behind that kind of change for the Republicans . . .

[tinrobot]

21. A self-absorbed has-been as the poster child?

Sounds about right.

[Downtown Hound]

22. How quaint

“But there's other things that I would like to do, and that is — one is — try to get the Republican Party to be more inclusive.”

Um, that was something you might have said about the Republican Party in 1999. Today it's more like, I wish the Republican Party wouldn't be psychotic, suicidal, treasonous, fascists.