My goal was, and remains, to improve the lives of people who have been forgotten for decades by the Democratic Party,” Stacey said. I hoped, and remain hopeful, that I can assist people living here on the national level. I started this run with the intention to address the pressing issues in the district where I live. “After much prayer, introspection and discussions with my family, I am withdrawing my candidacy. In a statement, Stacey explained that she believed the race would impact the health and well being of her family. congressional seat for her district in California. The 51-year-old Clueless actress and conservative commentator was hoping to win a U.S. Stacey Dash has withdrawn from her congressional race just one month announcing her campaign. What happened on January 6 was just appalling and stupid.”įind out all of the other celebrities who supported Donald Trump. “Because senseless violence of any kind I denounce.

I’m truly done,’” she said of her support of Donald Trump after the Capitol Riots on January 6, 2021. “When that happened I was like ‘OK, I’m done. I’m going to give the president that we have right now a chance.” Stacey now would never work at Fox, would never work for a news network or be a news contributor,” she added.ĭash said, “Being a supporter of Trump has put me in some kind of box that I don’t belong in. Working for Fox at the time, that was my job.

Stacey‘s someone who has compassion, empathy.” And that’s who Stacey was, but that’s not who Stacey is now. They were very arrogant and prideful and angry. She continued, “Things that I did say, that I should not have said them the way I said them. I made a lot of mistakes because of that anger.” I realized in 2016 that anger is unsustainable and it will destroy you. And at that time in my life, it was who I was. “I was the angry, conservative, Black woman. “I’ve lived my life being angry, which is what I was on Fox News,” she said to Daily Mail. She said she now describes herself as “apolitical.” She revealed she voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and then voted for Mitt Romney in 2012. In 2018, while running for a seat in Congress, she went on MSNBC and agreed with Trump's 'very fine people on both sides' comment following the Charlottesville riots the previous summer.Former Fox News contributor Stacey Dash is making a lot of apologies for her past support of Donald Trump. Dash also raised eyebrows when in response to the lack of diversity at the 2016 Oscars, she opined that ' we need to get red of' BET, a cable channel dedicated to Black culture, and its BET Awards.įollowing her time at Fox News, Dash continued to grab headlines due to her political views. The network suspended her for two weeks afterward. And at that time in my life it was who I was.'ĭuring her tenure, Dash made shocking comments, including in 2015 when she said that then-President Barack Obama didn't 'give a s-' about terrorism. 'I was the angry, conservative, Black woman. 'I've lived my life being angry, which is what I was on Fox News,' she said. Looking back on her time as a commentator on the conservative news network, from 2014 to 2017, Dash told the Daily Mail Wednesday that she 'made a lot of mistakes.' ' Clueless' star and former Fox News commentator, Stacey Dash, is apologizing for previous comments she made on air and is also denouncing Donald Trump.

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