In an interview with the Ruthless Podcast, Scott Brown, former U.S. Senator and current Senate candidate in New Hampshire, commended Indiana Fever shooting guard Sophie Cunningham for her advocacy on behalf of women’s sports.
“I don’t miss a game when the [Indiana] Fever [are] playing,” Brown said in an interview released Friday morning. “Sophie Cunningham had the guts to get up and challenge this crazy ideology and put up with that crap.”
Cunningham made news earlier this summer when she said that female athletes shouldn’t have to compete against biological men.
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Brown is no newcomer to the women’s sports debate. His daughter, Ayla, was a basketball player at Boston College.
“My daughter committed to Boston College at 15,” Brown, who served as ambassador to New Zealand during President Donald Trump’s first term, said. “[She was a] Gatorade Player of the Year, two years in a row, 2,358 points in high school. And they had men, practice players, coming in and trying to make them better because they were bigger and stronger. To think one of them was going to take my baby’s job.”
Earlier this month, Brown criticized the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) in an opinion piece in the Union Leader over its policies regarding transgender athletes.
“It’s hypocritical,” Brown said of the league to the Fellas in the interview. “It’s a no-brainer. The WNBA better get their you-know-what together because they’re going to lose it all without even blinking.”
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Brown is currently running for Senate, looking to replace the retiring Jeanne Shaheen.
Brown shocked the political world with his January 2010 Massachusetts U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, defeating Martha Coakley in a special election to finish the term of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.
In the Republican primary on Sept. 8, Brown faces another former senator: John Sununu. Ruthless interviewed Sununu earlier this month.
On the Democratic side, Rep. Chris Pappas faces several challengers, including Karishma Manzur.”
The general election will take place on November 3rd.
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The interview took place as part of the Ruthless Midterm Interview Series, an ongoing initiative to interview major candidates across the country. The hosts have already interviewed candidates in 19 states, with more scheduled ahead of the November midterms.
Podcast co-host Josh Holmes commended Brown for his commitment to conservative values in a region not known to be easy for Republicans.
“You’re a good man,” Holmes told Brown. “I’m glad you stayed in it for as long as you have because you’ve been a real warrior in a bunch of places that aren’t easy to be for sure.”
