{"id":548418,"date":"2021-06-01T14:51:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=548418"},"modified":"2021-06-01T14:51:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:51:24","slug":"why-would-i-even-talk-about-it-gwen-stefani-refuses-to-say-shes-not-a-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-would-i-even-talk-about-it-gwen-stefani-refuses-to-say-shes-not-a-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Why Would I Even Talk About It?\u2019: Gwen Stefani Refuses To Say She\u2019s Not A Republican  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-would-i-even-talk-about-it-gwen-stefani-refuses-to-say-shes-not-a-republican%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=548418&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1189409471.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>In a cover interview for<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.papermag.com\/gwen-stefani-cover-story-2653109335.html\"> <span>Paper<\/span><\/a><span> magazine that hit the web Wednesday, Gwen Stefani once again refused to provide an answer to one of Hollywood\u2019s favorite guessing games \u2014 what are her political views?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2012, the singer was a major fundraiser for Barack Obama\u2019s campaign. But that was before her relationship with country star Blake Shelton. Since then, Stefani has made no further personal<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/search?q=Gwen+Stefani&#038;type=donors\"> <span>political donations<\/span><\/a><span> and seems to have adopted her fianc\u00e9\u2019s policy of keeping her party allegiance to herself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0\u201cI can see how people would be curious, but I think it\u2019s pretty obvious who I am,\u201d the Voice coach told reporter Kat Gillespie. \u201cI\u2019ve been around forever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stefani then explained that she sees no reason celebs should have to divulge their decisions in the voting booth. \u201cThe whole point of voting,\u201d she said, \u201cis you have this personal space to feel how you feel. I use my platform to share my life story and to engage with people and to exchange whatever gift I was giving. I\u2019m not a political science major. I am not that person. Everyone knows that. So why would I even talk about it?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stefani also downplayed a feminist reading of her monster 1995 hit, \u201cJust a Girl,\u201d saying, \u201cI don\u2019t even know if I knew what feminist at that time was. I was very sheltered growing up with my family. I wasn\u2019t political. I wasn\u2019t angry.\u201d The No Doubt frontwoman then described a philosophy of personal empowerment that doesn\u2019t rely on group identity. \u201cI don\u2019t need to go on Instagram and say \u2018girl power.\u2019 I just need to live and be a good person and leave a trail of greatness behind me. Stop talking about it and stop trying to bully everybody about it. Just do it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Shelton similarly declined to jump on the anti-Trump bandwagon in a 2016 interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/7453469\/blake-shelton-billboard-cover-divorce-miranda-lambert-gwen-stefani-relationship-the-voice-if-im-honest-album?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Breaking%20News&#038;utm_term=biz_breakingnews\"><span>Billboard<\/span><\/a><span>. Rather than following the lead of so many in his industry and condemning the former Apprentice host, he tried to explain why cancel culture and speech suppression led voters in red states like his native Oklahoma to enthusiastically support Trump\u2019s candidacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m not going to have the political conversation with you about Trump, or about Hillary Clinton, but I will tell you this: Whether you love him or hate him, he says what he thinks, and he has proven that you don\u2019t always have to be so afraid. A lot of people are pulling for him, no matter how much Hollywood fights it.\u201d He then added, \u201cI see people who don\u2019t like him go and beat up people that do like him. You tell me, who\u2019s crazy here? I probably wish there was another option, but there\u2019s not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Shelton\u2019s insights drew the wrath of committed Hollywood leftists like Debra Messing, who<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/article\/2016\/07\/28\/debra-messing-gwen-stefani-blake-shelton-trump\/\"> <span>begged<\/span><\/a><span> Stefani to \u201cPlease talk to your man to not vote for the person who will STRIP you of your rights.\u201d Messing later apologized for her comments, but only after Shelton clarified that his statement was not meant to be read as an endorsement for any candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a cover interview for Paper magazine that hit the web Wednesday, Gwen Stefani once again refused to provide an answer to one of Hollywood\u2019s favorite guessing games \u2014 what &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278801,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1189409471.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Why Would I Even Talk About It?\u2019: Gwen Stefani Refuses To Say She\u2019s Not A Republican  \u00a0","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1189409471.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Why Would I Even Talk About It?\u2019: Gwen Stefani Refuses To Say She\u2019s Not A Republican  \u00a0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}