Bernie Sanders just received a presidential endorsement from one of the toughest people on the planet: MMA fighter Ronda Rousey.
“I’m voting for Bernie Sanders, because he doesn’t take any corporate money,” Rousey told Maxim Tuesday. “I don’t think politicians should be allowed to take money for their campaigns from outside interests.”
The undefeated UFC champion is so far in Sanders’ corner that she will not even consider voting for his closest competition, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“If he doesn’t win against Hillary, then I’ll probably vote for a third party again,” she said. “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.”
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Rousey was not kidding about supporting third-party candidates. She voted for the most unconventional candidate possible in 2012.
“I voted for Roseanne [Barr] last time,” Rousey said of the comedian who put her name on the ballot in 2012. “Mostly I went in to vote for all the state and local things. I was so unimpressed with the whole presidential campaign that I picked whatever third party I saw, and I saw Roseanne and thought, ‘That’s awesome.’ But I’m really pulling for Sanders this time. I hope it works out.”
This is not the first time that Rousey’s name has come up in relation to the 2016 presidential election. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told CNN in August that Rousey was on his team while answering a question about women serving in the military.
“Some of them are really, really good,” he said. “I’ll tell you what, I know some woman that are just — Ronda Rousey is an example, who likes me … I’d take her on my side as a fighter.”
Trump clearly had not seen these comments that Rousey made about him in July to CNN:
“I mean, I wouldn’t vote for him. 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.”
