Riley Gaines opens up on possibly running for office as she fights against Dems letting males in girls' sports

Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram breaks down the debate over transgender athletes in women's sports on 'Special Report.'

EXCLUSIVE: Riley Gaines has championed fairness in women's sports. Will it lead her to the campaign trail?

The former NCAA swimmer-turned-conservative activist has vowed to help unseat any Democrat who is enabling the inclusion of trans athletes in girls' and women's sports. That list added 45 senators to it on Monday night, after every Senate Democrat voted against the "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act." 

Gaines spent Monday in Minnesota, rallying supporters to advocate for a state bill aimed at protecting femal athletes from trans inclusion. However, that bill also failed to pass, falling short in the Minnesota House of Representatives. 

After Gaines helped President Donald Trump and Republicans capitalize on national outrage over Democrats allowing trans inclusion in girls' sports, she now turns her attention to inflicting further consequences on the DNC in the 2026 midterms, as the party has seemingly refused to budge on the issue. 

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Riley Gaines, a former All-American University of Kentucky swimmer, speaks before Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at the Greenville Convention Center on Friday, June 2, 2023. (MCKENZIE LANGE/ Staff / USA TODAY NETWORK)

However, Gaines also is not ruling out the possibility of taking matters into her own hands, and eventually running for public office, she told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview last Friday. 

"It's never what I saw myself doing," said Gaines, who majored in health sciences at the University of Kentucky and originally planned to pursue dentistry. 

"But now, of