Caitlyn Jenner was too lazy, dumb & defeatist to vote in the 2020 election

Voter disenfranchisement is a real thing, so I’m not going to go full-throttle smug-lecturer about voting and civic responsibility and all that. I wish everyone would vote, and I wish everyone had easy access to voting. It is a civic responsibility and as I get older, I have less and less respect for people who refuse to vote when their votes are not the ones being suppressed. Especially in the last two election cycles. How could you watch the catastrophe unfold over the past five years and think “nope, still apathetic!” So… that’s Caitlyn Jenner. Caitlyn Jenner is running for governor of California through CA’s complicated recall process. Caitlyn is a big Republican and she supported Donald Trump for a time, and she now employs a lot of former Trump staffers. And… she didn’t vote in the 2020 election.

Before Caitlyn Jenner launched a campaign for governor of California last month, she hadn’t been all that politically active. In fact, she said in a new interview, she didn’t see the point in voting as a California conservative in the most recent presidential race. But now she feels the state needs her help.

Speaking to CNN’s Dana Bash in an interview that aired Tuesday morning, Jenner said she didn’t cast a ballot for former President Donald Trump in 2020, despite her Republican background and despite having turned to some of his former officials to help with her own campaign.

“I didn’t even vote … Out here in California, it’s like, why vote for a Republican president? It’s just not gonna work. I mean, it’s overwhelming,” Jenner, 71, said. She continued: “It was voting day and I thought, ‘The only thing out here in California that I worry about, which affects people, is the propositions that were out there,’ and I didn’t see any propositions that I really had one side or the other. And so, it was Election Day and I just couldn’t get excited about it. I just wanted to play golf so I said, ‘I’m not doing that.’ ”

Asked why she expected people to be excited for her own campaign, Jenner joked, “‘Cause I’m cute and adorable.”

Speaking with Bash, Jenner acknowledged that some of Trump’s own staffers now worked for her — but said that the overlap had nothing to do with her support, or lack thereof, for the former president.

“I’ve never even talked to Trump about any of this stuff. We’re in that post-Trump era. I am very fortunate. I know people in the Republican Party … honestly some of the best people in the Republican Party have jumped on board to help me with this program,” Jenner said. She added that who her campaign staff had worked for before was of no concern to her, provided they were skilled at their jobs.

“It makes no difference,” she said. “They work politics, you know, and that’s what they do. If Ted Cruz had gotten elected and Trump didn’t, they would have probably worked for Ted Cruz.”

[From People]

Everyone thinks their vote doesn’t count until their state flips. For decades, Virginia was the bastion of the Old South and all of our statewide office-holders were Republicans. And then the demographics began to shift and Democrats started running better and smarter campaigns. Now VA isn’t even purple, it’s reliably blue. I’m sure there were a–holes in Georgia saying that their vote didn’t count last year too, but look what happened. So yeah, California is actually the GOP’s special project. They want to overtake that state and they’re making inroads in congressional races and local elections. I mean, it’s not that I want Caitlyn to vote and she’s clearly a f–king moron, but I’m just pointing out how stupid and defeatist it is to actually argue “my vote doesn’t count.” I honestly can’t believe Cait is giving up golfing 24-7 for this “running for office” sh-t.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cait’s IG.

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