Matthew McConaughey is putting rumors of him running for political office to rest. The 52-year-old actor stopped by Fox News' with Bret Baier Tuesday, where he set the record straight about his political ambitions and spoke about the speech he made earlier, at the White House, in which he plead for stricter gun control legislation following the school shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas.«I am not running for political office,» McConaughey stressed. «I'm here because on the 24th of May, I got the news that there was a mass shooting in the town that I was born in, Uvalde, Texas.»He continued, «As I said earlier, went home that night, hugged the kids, held on to them a little bit longer and tighter than usual, the next morning we loaded up and went down to Uvalde.»While McConaughey touched on his experience in Uvalde during his briefing in the White House's Brady Room Tuesday, he told Baier that the main thing he and his wife Camila Alves got out of their family's trip to Uvalde, was how much those who lost a loved one wanted to make sure their loss was not in vain.«The main thing that we got out of it, was that every single family that lost a loved one or child said, 'You know what, I just want some way for the loss of my loved one's life to matter,'» he shared. «And I think that's what we are talking about on the cusp here in D.C.
today, how can we make it matter.»The time he spent back in Uvalde was life-changing for the Oscar-winner, who told Baier that both he and his wife are «different» now.«I'm a different man now.
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