Riley Gaines visits RNC with message for New York AG Letitia James, Democrats claiming to be party for women

Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines told Fox News Digital outside the RNC that the Trump-Vance ticket will defend sex-based protections for women and girls and criticized New York Attorney General Letitia James' new lawsuit.

Riley Gaines, the former NCAA swimmer who competed against transgender athlete Lia Thomas, visited the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, where she spoke with Fox News Digital about her message to New York Attorney General Letitia James and Democrats who argue they're the party for women's rights. 

Gaines, a guest of the New York GOP and former Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin, spoke to Fox News Digital outside the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a day after James sued Nassau County, New York, Executive Bruce Blakeman over a newly-enacted county law that would ban biological males from competing in women’s sporting events at county-run parks and facilities. 

"I wish I could say I was surprised by the actions of the attorney general, but as we have seen from her history, this doesn't surprise me. She seems to go after anyone with a dissenting viewpoint to the narrative that her and her party is pushing," Gaines told Fox News Digital, expressing gratitude to Blakeman. 

"It's hard being in the position that he's in one of the largest counties, to do what he has done, but it's common sense," Gaines said outside the convention center. "This is not a battle of right versus left. This is a humanitarian issue. The message that's being sent by those such as the attorney general of New York, is that girls don't matter, is that our safety doesn't matter, and our sports, our privacy doesn't matter in our locker rooms, and our equal opportunities don't matter." 

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