Although his office was non-committal last week, Arnold Schwarzenegger himself is putting to rest rumors that he’s coming out of retirement to challenge Sen. Dianne Feinstein for a California Senate seat.
The former Terminator star-turned-governor of California said on Sunday that he’d been inundated with media requests all weekend, and wanted to put the issue to bed. He took to Facebook to send a message to fans: As much as he’d like to go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump on the big stage, his career in office is over.
“I’m deeply flattered by all of the people who have approached me about running for Senate, but my mission right now is to bring sanity to Washington through redistricting reform like we passed here in California,” he wrote.
He went on to talk about his pet project, re-drawing California’s Congressional districts in order for California citizens to be better represented in the federal legislature. He asked that everyone enthusiastic about his prospective Senate run get just as pumped up about altering the boundaries of Congressional districts in a state they don’t live in.
The decision is bound to be welcome news for President Donald Trump, who has been in a heated Twitter battle with the Governator for weeks, since Arnold’s version of The Apprentice premiered on NBC.
Republicans anxious for a loud-mouthed, high-profile challenger to Trump’s stranglehold on the GOP agenda were ready for Arnold to be their savior on the national stage—a platform a California Senate run might have provided.
For now, though, they’re out of luck. Other third-rate Hollywood political possibilities—Scott Baio, Anthony Sabato Jr., and even John Voigt and Chuck Norris —are all firmly in Trump’s camp.
