US: Olympian, reality star Caitlyn Jenner to run for CA governor

The longtime Republican and former Trump supporter will challenge Gavin Newsom in a likely recall election.

Caitlyn Jenner, a former Olympic decathlete and reality television star, has filed paperwork to challenge California’s governor Gavin Newsom in a recall election. Jenner, a US sports icon and gold medal winner in 1976, gained reality television fame after appearing in Keeping Up with the Kardashians, a series that began in 2007. The longtime Republican, born Bruce Jenner, publicly transitioned beginning in 2015. She had been a Trump supporter, but broke with the former president after he undid federal guidelines that allowed transgender students to use bathrooms of their choice.