​Jun 27, 2026; Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham (8) in the second half against the Los Angeles Sparks at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Mandatory Credit: Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn ImagesOver the past several days, Sophie Cunningham has caused quite a stir for taking a controversial stance on transgender athletes and refusing to back down. It’s Cunningham’s first real step into politics after she had been relatively silent on her views. However, one prominent culture expert saw this coming.About two weeks before Cunningham voiced her opinion on transgender athletes, longtime culture columnist Chuck Klosterman took notice of the impact that Cunningham has and went as far as to predict that she would one day become the Vice President of the United States.‘Going to be Vice President’Klosterman, a prominent culture columnist who has written for high-profile outlets like Esquire, The New York Times, and ESPN Page 2, recently appeared on The Bill Simmons Podcast, where he boldly claimed that Cunningham would eventually have a very successful political career.“Sophie Cunningham … I’m going to say 2050, is going to be Vice President of the United States,” Klosterman said in an appearance on The Bill Simmons Podcast. “I don’t know what party she’ll be in, I don’t know anything about her political views. But she will be the vice presidential candidate, at least the candidate.”“I don’t know what it is. It’s something about the fact that she wears those sleeves on the court, something about the way she triggers in-bound plays at the end of games, makes me think she will be someone’s ideal vice president. You know, she has a damn likable personality.”Klosterman admitted that he did not really know much about her politics, but he saw her as likable.Cunningham is ‘in the Middle’As for where Cunningham leans politically, it might not be as clear as it seems.While her recent comments suggest that she leans to the right politically, Cunningham has insisted on multiple occasions that her actual political views are “in the middle.”“All I have to say is I really am right in the middle, and I think a lot of America is like that,” Cunningham said in an interview with The New York Times last year. “In our culture today you have to choose and you have to be an extremist, and that’s just not me. So I agree with things on both sides; I disagree with things on both sides.”Even in the same ESPN interview where she first spoke out against trans athletes, Cunningham insisted that her views were “very much in the middle.”“I’m very much in the middle. I agree with things on both sides, disagree with things on both sides. And that’s all I’ve ever said about my political beliefs. But people love to assume,” she says.Aside from her trans sports opinion and a recent opinion she shared speaking out against data centers, Cunningham has not shared much about her political views publicly.The