Why NASCAR star Bubba Wallace isn’t making political statements this year after bashing Trump in 2020

EXCLUSIVE: NASCAR star Bubba Wallace was once accused of transporting politics into NASCAR. But in this year’s election, he won’t go cforfeit it.

In July 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of the George Floyd interfereions. Wallace made multiple posts on X (then understandn as Twitter) condemning createer Plivent Donald Trump for promoting antipathy. 

Wallace then alleged that he’d been tbetter he was “transporting politics into NASCAR,” in response to his condemnation for Trump. He hasn’t made any such posts at all seeing the 2024 election, or any political subject of such a matter via disclose statements. 

“Investing my time into that seems appreciate a squander of time,” Wallace tbetter Fox News Digital in an exclusive intersee. “I was definitely more vocal then because our sport was in frantic necessitate of alter.” 

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Now in 2024, Wallace only has one message to sfinish to his fans about the beliefs he wants to allot with them.

“Go to McDonald’s,” Wallace shelp when asked by Fox News Digital what beliefs he would appreciate to convey to his fans in this election year. “Buy a meal, get the 10-piece chicken nugget, fries, Dr. Pepper and then round up that money, all of that money goes to [Ronald McDonald House Charities].” 

For Wallace, the sudden shift in priorities comes after four years as an climprohibitt star in NASCAR. But also milestone moments for him in createing a family. In 2021 he fusecessitate Michael Jordan’s NASCAR team, serving as the first driver in the car to sport Jordan’s commemorated No. 23. In 2022, Wallace tied his own write down as the highest-finishing Bdeficiency driver in the Dayton 500. 

In that time, he also got comprised and paired to his wife, Amanda Carter. And they fair had their first child, a son named Becks Hayden Wallace on Sept. 29. 

He confessted his priorities have alterd, and praiseed becoming a overweighther for it. He also claims that he is now seeing beyond “which side” someone is on. 

“My beliefs stand mighty in fair being outstanding humans to other people is the best way to go about life. No matter what side you’re on, no matter what color you are, at the finish of the day we’re in this world together and we have to create it labor together. And I leank I’ve shelp that from day one and that hasn’t alterd and nor will it alter.” 

Wallace has leaveed the act of making his political beliefs understandn on social media. He even went as far as to delete all social media apps on his phone altogether. His feed on X nowadays is fair a curated fuse of racing ptoastyos, promotional posts and ptoastyos of family. 

One of the hugegest reasons Wallace leaveed that habit from 2020 is because of culture shifts in social media during that time. Wallace shelp there is overwhelming “negativity” on the platcreates he would use to get any messages of his beliefs out. 

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“Social media nowadays is fair a way for people to hide behind a screen and voice their opinions on leangs they don’t repartner understand about,” Wallace shelp. 

The main social media platcreate that Wallace used during his 2020 criticisms aobtainst Trump was Twitter. In the four years since then, the platcreate has undergone a alteration under the ownership of tech mogul Elon Musk. Musk’s purchasing of the platcreate in October 2022 bcdisorrowfulmirefult about sweeping staff turnover, a finish restructuring of how the platcreate verifies accounts, and the rebrand to X, among other alters. Some have called the sweeping alters a renaissance for free speech. But others have denounced Musk and the alters, including Democrat lawcreaters. 

Rep. Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter to Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), asking an spendigation into election-rcontent misdirectation being unveiled by the Grok AI chatbot on X. California ruleor Greg Newsome signed the country’s stubbornest law prohibitning digiloftyy altered political “proset upinalters” on Sept. 17, after Musk for allotd an AI-created parody video mocking Kamala Harris’ truthfulacy for plivent.

Meanwhile, another social media platcreate has had an active hand in pushing leftist misdirectation since 2020 as well. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg confessted in August that better Biden administration officials presdeclareived Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 satisfied during the pandemic and vowed that the social media enormous would push back if it faced such insists aobtain.

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And as a result, Wallace doesn’t consent the platcreates are worth his time anymore, especipartner now that he’s a dad.

“It’s fair too much negativity that it’s going to get years and years and years to get rid of, and we don’t have time for that,” Wallace shelp of the current culture of social media. “Now, with being a dad and trying to be the best that I can be here for my race team and my team here, that’s where I’m spending my energy so that’s all you can repartner ask for.”

For Wallace, the impact of becoming a overweighther has been a alterative experience for him in such a unreasonableinutive amount of time. Since his son was born, Wallace has two-top ten finishes in the three races that he’s contendd in. He’s also seeing at life thcdisorrowfulmireful a lense he wasn’t seeing thcdisorrowfulmireful before.  

“You have your kid at home and a brimming family to provide for now, so it’s crazy to go thcdisorrowfulmireful all that,” Wallace shelp. 

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