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UFC Star Ronda Rousey Just Made A Startling Endorsement For President- But She Forgot One BIG Thing
UFC star Ronda Rousey revealed who she plans to vote for in 2016. Rousey told Maxim in an interview published on Tuesday that she is supporting Bernie Sanders for president.
“I’m voting for Bernie Sanders, because he doesn’t take any corporate money,” she said. “I don’t think politicians should be allowed to take money for their campaigns from outside interests.”
If Bernie should come up short, she has no plans to switch to Hillary Clinton, however. “If he doesn’t win against Hillary, then I’ll probably vote for a third party again. To be honest, in 2012 I was against both candidates and so I just picked any third party because I thought if more people voted for third parties then they’d have to take third parties seriously.”
Rousey said that she voted for Roseanne Barr during the last presidential race. The former television star ran on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket, The Hill reports.
“I’m really pulling for Sanders this time. I hope it works out,” the UFC fighter said.
The argument could be made that if Rousey truly is against corporate money influencing a candidate, she should look to outsider Donald Trump, who is, by-and-large, self-funding. He has turned down major backers and spoke out forcefully against the negative impact of superPACs in the election. Trump has stated that he wants to be beholden to no special interests, if he should be elected the next president.
The Washington Post reports, as of the end of the last reporting period, that Trump had received $4 million in traditional campaign donations from over 75.000 people, with an average amount of $50.
However, during an interview with CNN this past summer, Rousey made it clear that Donald Trump is not her man in the race. “I mean, I wouldn’t vote for him,” she said. “I just really wouldn’t trust the guy with running my country, that’s all. I’m not really going to get into specifics of it, but, I mean, I don’t want a reality TV star to be running my country.”
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/ufc-star-ronda-rousey-just-made-a-startling-endorsement-for-president-but-she-forgot-one-big-thing/
