Don’t expect any of Caitlyn Jenner’s children to campaign for her, including her sons from her first two marriages and her famous reality TV daughters.
TMZ is reporting that Jenner’s sons, Burt, Brandon and Brody, opposed the idea of her running and are “embarrassed” that she is doing so, because they don’t feel she’s qualified to be governor.
TMZ, citing its insider sources, said Jenner called some of her children before publicly announcing her plans to run last week.
Her sons, according to TMZ, strongly suggested she reconsider. But they also realized that she had already made up her mind and were upset she didn’t take the family’s feelings into consideration.
Jenner, a Republican and high-profile transgender advocate, issued a statement last Friday confirming that she had filed paperwork to run for governor in the event that Gavin Newsom faces a recall election.
“California has been my home for nearly 50 years,” the 71-year-old Jenner said on Twitter. “I came here because I knew that anyone, regardless of their background or station in life, could turn their dreams into reality. But for the past decade, we have seen the glimmer of the Golden State reduced by one-party rule that places politics over progress and special interests over people.”
Jenner’s sons don’t agree that Jenner is the best person qualified to lead California, especially as the state tries to recover economically and socially from the COVID-19 pandemic, TMZ said.
Burt Jenner is the former Olympian’s son from his first marriage, to Chrystie Scott, while Brandon and Brody are her sons from her second marriage, to actress Linda Thompson. Brandon and Brody Jenner also followed the reality TV path by starring in the show “The Princes of Malibu.”
From Jenner’s Kardashian side of the family, she also faces opposition because of her conservative politics and because of the emotional fallout from her divorce from Kris Jenner, TMZ earlier reported.
Jenner also reportedly shared her campaign plans with stepdaughters Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian and with daughters Kendall and Kylie Jenner, TMZ said. But Jenner doesn’t expect any of them to stump for her.
In 2015 — the same year she came out as a transgender woman — Jenner told Ellen DeGeneres that she opposed same-sex marriage, Entertainment Weekly reported. Jenner said, “I kinda like tradition, and it’s always been a man and a woman.”
That position didn’t go over well among the Kardashians, TMZ reported. It also appears that Jenner and her daughters clashed over the 2016 election, with Jenner supporting Donald Trump and the Kardashians backing Hillary Clinton.
Of course, Kim Kardashian worked with the Trump administration on prison reform, but that may have been out of necessity.
Jenner in 2017 clarified that she supported same-sex marriage and admitted in a Washington Post op-ed in 2018 that she was wrong to support Trump and mistaken in her belief that he and his administration would support the LGBTQ community.
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