California GOP gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner said she didn’t vote in the 2020 presidential election because she couldn’t “get excited” about Election Day.
Jenner launched her campaign in late April to challenge Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) as he faces a GOP-led recall effort amid his handling of the coronavirus pandemic in the state. The Olympic gold medalist is one of the most well-known candidates in the recall effort.
In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Jenner said that she didn’t vote in 2020 because she “couldn’t get excited about it.”
Jenner was asked if she spoke with former President Trump about her gubernatorial bid given that she had Trump advisers help with her campaign.
“No, I’ve never even talked to Trump about any of this stuff,” Jenner said.
Jenner has said she voted for Trump in 2016. Asked who she voted for in 2020, Jenner said, “I didn’t even vote.”
Jenner said that due to California being such a blue state, the only issues she focuses on are ballot propositions, none of which she felt passionately about in November.
“It was voting day, and I thought the only thing out here in California that I worry about which affect people is the propositions that were out there, and I didn’t see any propositions that I really had one side or the other,” Jenner said.
“And so, it was Election Day. And I just couldn’t get excited about it. And I just wound up going to play golf and I say ‘uh, I’m not doing that,’ ” she continued.
Explaining her decision to have Trump advisers on her campaign team, Jenner said the fact that they worked for Trump wasn’t a discouraging factor.
“It makes no difference, they work politics, and that’s what they do,” Jenner said. “If Ted Cruz had gotten elected and Trump didn’t they would probably work for Ted Cruz.”
Jenner has gone back-and-forth on her support of Trump. She touted Trump in an interview with Sean Hannity last week as a “disruptor.”
But in another segment of her interview with Bash, Jenner said that she didn’t believe the former president’s claims that the election was stolen.
The Trump campaign filed a deluge of lawsuits in states that he lost and claimed were fraudulent.
“Do you believe that the election was stolen?” Bash asked.
“No, I believe in the system,” responded Jenner.